길동생태공원 인공새집 이용현황 분석

Abstract

Gil-dong Eco-Park opened in 1999 for the purpose of promoting biodiversity and providing ecological education. Created with a view to providing a habitat for bio organisms, Gil-dong Eco-Park is crucial not only as a habitat but also as a breeding ground. This study was conducted for the purpose of coming up with installation guidelines that can be of help in setting up bird houses in ecological parks or urban forests by analyzing the current usage of the bird houses installed in Gil-dong Eco-Park and the requirements for their installation. Since 2004, we have installed twenty bird houses for cavity nesters, and our analysis of the breeding of birds showed an annual usage of 15 to 45%. In our analysis of the conditions of the survey, we assumed that there would be locational characteristics with those nests that were used multiple times. And it showed that there existed no correlation between the distance to the observation trail and the height at which the nests were installed while the distance to the road registered the greatest importance. As they were set up at the forest edges with a high ratio of greens, the type of nearby vegetation bore no relevance. As is not the case with ordinary residential areas, in ecological parks, the usage of bird houses was not greatly influenced by 78 문학과 환경 15권 3호nearness to a walking trail, the height for their installation, the direction of the bird house hole, the degree that nearby vegetations were accessible to the public, etc. Nevertheless, our analysis that there existed significant correlation between the distance to roads and the type of trees on which the bird houses were built. Therefore, in installing bird houses in ecological parks, one needs to consider the type of trees on which they are to be installed and their distance to roads.