The bird population of the southern mountain range of the Great Khekhzir

The data on the avifauna and birds population structure of the southern mountain range of the Great Khekhzir are given. The species compositions, population, stay of species, nesting sites, spatial distribution of birds over 1996-2006, 2009, and 2010 represented. In the study region’s is formed the avifauna, is related to tree-shrub spaces. According to the method of nesting birds predominate, using for the construction of nests the surface of the earth, hollow and half-hollow, tree crowns and branches forks (78.8% of the species composition of nesting birds of the study area and 83.2% of the index of abundance); in accordance with the biotopic distribution - dendrophilic group (89.4%, 92.5%). Some species nesting in natural breeding sites - hollow and half-hollow, and in mosaically located on the study area of human buildings.