Biodiversity

Biography

Biography: Kunduru Surender Reddy

Abstract

Massawa and its surrounding beaches can support a diversity of marine birds along with the Red sea, for weather seasonal, annual, and spatial factors that affect bird richness and abundance on public beaches. To do so, we conducted two years of bird surveys on the beaches. These beaches are permanent natural water bodies, and are important for bird wildlife because they are stable resources for food, water and also good ground for mating purpose. The permanent water bodies are constant and limited for its geographical areas under natural conditions. We studied the marine water birds which are both migrant and resident; its species richness and diversity were studied in Massawa and its surrounding beaches in the Red sea region. It is good for marine food source and also near by areas for marine birds there was natural vegetation in the seasons and are less important for agricultural resources. These areas were supposed to be earlier in rich resource for different marine bird species and may be sometimes disturbed by the seasonal sea tides and also by tourists. The study reveals that there are different species of birds as discussed below. We conclude our study that reductions in the rate of population decline the observed species of marine bird biodiversity. To protect such species, great care must be exercised either by governmental or by non-governmental agencies. Across all species, we found that there are 10 marine bird species of this region and calculated values and abundance of the bird species and obtained low values indicating low bird richness and abundance. It may be strongly affected by seasons, natural habitat and the availability of food and are the basis for conducive environment for breeding to maintain next generation.