• Sirsat Chandrakant V
• Gaikwad PB
• Aher PD

Abstract: Present study is an attempt to promote benefits from organic farming to enhance populations of agroecosystem farmbirds and to speculate importance of different aspects of organic farming in the local agricultural area. Use of vermicopost and vermiwash in place of chemical fertilizers and pesticides increasing area of organic farming made a significant positive impact on abundance of avian diversity. In the present study total 53 species among which insectivorous (43.40 %), omnivorous (35.85%), predatory (13.21%), and granivorous (7.54%), observed from organic farming out of which only 29 that is 54.72 % in which insectivorous (24,53%), omnivorous (20.75%), predatory (5.66%), granivorous (3.77%) were reported from conventional chemical fertilizers farming during the study period from July 2022 to December 2022. Further, highest frequency for organic farm visiting birds was 209 and lowest frequency was 49, highest mean pecking rate recorded in the organic farming sites was 122 at morning hours and 109 at evening hours. Whereas, search time was comparatively higher in the conventional chemical fertilizers farming as compared to organic farming. Spearman’s correlation coefficient for search time against pecking rate between organic and conventional chemical fertilizers farming were 0.978 which showed excellent correlation of bird search time against number of pecks in organic farming in contrast to chemical fertilizers farming.

Keywords: Foraging behavior, organic farming, agroecosystem, vermicomposting, avian diversity etc.

"FORAGING BEHAVIOUR OF BIRDS IN ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AGROECOSYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.b509-b515, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303165.pdf

"FORAGING BEHAVIOUR OF BIRDS IN ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AGROECOSYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppb509-b515, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303165.pdf