Abstract:Our understanding of how birds use human supplementary resources, especially artificial structures and patchy vegetation within urban areas, is limited. Our study compared the use of artificial structures versus natural vegetation by birds in built-up areas in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) in the central region of Ghana. Using point count technique, we recorded bird species and the activities performed as well as the substrates they use in residential and commercial areas within the CCMA. We foun… Show more
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