Faunistic Studies of Birds in Yakhab Wildlife Refuge, Isfahan Province

One of the methods for assessing the quality of drought habitats and increasing the quality of protection is examination of fauna birds. In this research the monitoring of the Yakhab Wildlife Refuge were took place over a two-year period (2015 to 2017) in 32 field visits, with 4 visits per season. The aim of this research was to investigate the birds fauna, identifying unique regions in the Yakhab wildlife refuge. Due to high extent of region and also better examination of fauna birds in the region were used transect method and point count method. In this research were used different Sampling units for recording of species. For bird watching binoculars and a camera with a telephoto lens was used. According to results of study, 87 birds species from 13 orders were observed and identified in this region in the two years. The highest diversity and frequency of the species were belong to the Passeriforms order with 49 species (56% of the total observed species) and the lowest diversity and frequency of the species were belong to the order of Cuculiformes, Podicipediforms and Caprimulgiformes with 1 species. The results showed that, 17% of the observed species were protected. In this study, seven key areas that are rich in species diversity of the areas selected, including Maleksadra, Bisheh, Maryjab, Cheshmeh yakhab, Gazoo, Karshahi and is Cheshmeh aroos. According to the results, the Yabak Wildlife Refuge has a rich fauna of birds that needs more attention than this area.