Abstract

<p>This project was carried out to study the Distribution and abundance of game birds species in human residential area of Sanagi village, Jega Local Government Area, Kebbi state, Nigeria. To assess the different game birds species and to identify the dominant and the rare species of game birds in the study area (Human Residential area). Morning observation was made between the hours of 06:00am and 10:00am, while the evening visit is from 04:30pm to 06:30pm when the temperature was relatively cool and the birds activities were high. A field guide books was used to identify the birds sighted in the field, a binocular, was used to sight birds from distance, a recording book, for recording the features of the birds sighted. The data collected was subjected to descriptive statistics such as frequency, table, and percentage and statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) was used. From the results, a total number of five (5) species of game birds were identified in the study area, it was also observed that, morning dove has the dominant number of gamebirds species (29.46%)), while the least (13.95) was the cattle egret which has the rare numbers of game birds species. More studies should be carried out so as to remark this work and give a much clearer picture of the composition of game birds in the study area.</p>