Research Article

Composition and Functional Diversity in Bird Communities in a Protected Humid Coastal Savanna

Table 2

Number of species and their habitat ecology as observed from the study sites.

VariableStudy habitat blocks/zones
KinyongaSaadani gateMkwaja

Total number of species146145186
Total number of threatened species2, 14, 2, 16, 1, 1
FF-species14718
% FF-species9.594.839.68
F-species292127
% F-species19.8614.4814.52
f-species455063
% f-species30.8234.4833.87
s-species586778
% s-species39.7346.2141.94

Conservation status of bird species is also shown, a: near threatened species, b: vulnerable; c: endangered species. FF: forest specialist species, F: forest generalist, f: forest visitor, and s: savanna/woodland species.