Blog post-1

The study area chosen for the field study is backyard of my house and backyard of my friend’s house, in Courtenay, Vancouver Island, BC. Both the backyards are around 4.7km away . Both the areas are rich in bare ground, small gardens.  At both the backyards there is one big tree which is used to hang my feeders on. Both the areas are same in terms f vegetation. It is a residential area with flats and buildings. I initiated this research project to identify the key ecological features of most abundant local birds’ species in this area and to study their feeding habits and recording their behavior. I started observing the birds in both the areas  in starting of April month (15-17 C temperature), during the noon time when there was adequate sunlight in order to the abundance of different bird species. As I am focusing on studying the different habitat partitioning among birds or niche partitioning (the word niche basically means the role and the position a species has in its environment) which they undergo to reduce competition, another question can arise on seed preferences by providing 8 different types of seeds and record the most preferred ones or some birds eat at different times of day to reduce competition. These all are questions that came across during the study.