Hello.
I am looking for a description of a methodology for bird counts (census), which is applicable to airport area and will allow me to collect the data about species diversity and abundance at four different objects with seasonal and daily fluctuations, in order to analyse ornithological safety of those objects and compare them in terms of this safety.
I would appreciate, if somebody shared such methodology or recommended works (papers, books), where it is described in detail.
I would also like to inquire - I am no ornithologist, nor zoologist (my specialization is environmental engineering), so would it be possible for me to make those counts (census) alone, without help from specialist?
Thank You in advance.
Inokentii Horobtsov;
The most common way is the Radar.
Maybe this article can be useful.
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Detection_of_Bird_Activity_Using_Radar
Do you need to know what species each individual is, or just total numbers? If it is a species composition, then expert/experienced bird watchers may be needed to train your team and/or participate. If it is total numbers, then a radar system as suggested by Si Mokrane Siad might be useful. You would probably still need to correlate the data with on-ground observations.
Perhaps you could look at a citizen science-type project for survey techniques: Birdata (birdlife.org.au) or eBird.org might be able to assist with a method.
Here is one recent paper:
Arshad S and Malik AM, 2020. Bird species richness, evenness and habitat management around airports: a case study of Benazir Bhutto International Airport Islamabad, Pakistan. Asian J. Agric. Biol. 8(4): 413-421. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35495/ajab.2019.06.237 (Open Access article).
For diversity, you determine the number of species by observation.
For abundance, see the attached article :)
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