STUDI KEANEKARAGAMAN JENIS BURUNG DIURNAL DI HUTAN SEBADAL TAMAN NASIONAL GUNUNG PALUNG KABUPATEN KAYONG UTARA

This research was conducted by the reduced of birds species in the area of the forest caused by various factors such as clearing of the land by humans, hunt, and the other factor that impact to the destruction of nature habitat of various species of birds, therefore it could cause a reduction toward diversity of birds species. This research was conducted to find out the diversity of diurnal birds in the forest of sebadal on National Park of gunung palung in the village of gunung Sembilan in kecamatan sukadana at kabupaten kayong utara. This research was a descriptive study that by using direct observation method, Meanwhile the inventory technique that have used was path technique which combined with point count. The distance between point count was 200 mwith the number of lines created by 4 lanes which following the direction of the wind with path width 60 m with radiation was 30 m. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found that 40 species of diurnal birds with an individual average of 31. The average number of individuals that most widely found in the morning were 36 individuals, mean while in the afternoon were 27 individuals. Furthermore, The Calculation of dominance index from this research with score C=0,070 showed that in the forest of sebadal there was no species that dominate. And the result of the calculation of species diversity index with score H=1,663 showed that equally of species was medium. While the calculation of fairness type index with score E=0,451 showed that equally of species was medium.Keyword : Diversity, National Park of Gunung Palung, Sebadal Fores