Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2015

NESTING BEHAVIOUR OF HOUSE CROW IN AGRICULTURAL HABITATS OF LUDHIANA, PUNJAB

Gurwinder Kaur, Manoj Kumar, Tejdeep Kaur Kler

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T House Crow (Corvus splendens) is tree nester and the nests are normally placed on tree about 10–12 m average height off ground. The House Crow establish their nests in local environment on various types of trees mainly on Eucalyptus oblique (Safada), Ziziphus sp. (Beeri), Saraca asoca (Ashoka), Populous deltoids (Popular) Azadirachta indica (Neem), Melia azedarch (Dharek) and Syzygium cumini (Jamun) tree, but occasionally on electric power transmission lines tower and mobile towers etc. as artificial nesting site. The use of these artificial structures for nesting purpose to expand their eeding range into areas where there are no natural nesting sites. A total of 91nests were observed during the eeding seasons of 2013 and 2014 in the present study. Observation with respect to quantitative analysis and dimensions of the nests were also taken. House Crows were loosely colonial, were intolerant of conspecifics nesting on the same tree.

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GURWINDER KAUR, MANOJ KUMAR, TEJDEEP KAUR KLER NESTING BEHAVIOUR OF HOUSE CROW IN AGRICULTURAL HABITATS OF LUDHIANA, PUNJAB Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 2 February 2015

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