Study on bird diversity in the campus of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur was done, over a period of six months from September 2017 to February 2018. A total number of 45 bird species belonging to 23 families were recorded during the study covering an area of about 1.214 km2. University campus is 0.02% of total Gorakhpur area, and has 12.5% of the total bird species reported in Gorakhpur region. The study was divided into different regions that are: Botanical garden, Arts faculty, Law department, Helipad region, Pant bhawan. Of the 45 bird species observed, 4 were migratory namely Yellow-footed green pigeon, Rosy-starling, Robin accentor, Ashy drongo. The common bird species were Jungle babbler, common myna, spotted dove, blue rock pigeon, house crow, black drongo etc. The University campus has wide variety of trees, which may be one of the major contributing factor for the richness of bird species.
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