Data on rainforest birds from line transect surveys in the Kalakad - Mundathurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India

This dataset contains data on rainforest bird communities collected along
line transects in Kalakad - Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India,
as part of doctoral research leading up to the following thesis:Raman, T.
R. S. 2001. Community ecology and conservation of mid-elevation tropical
rainforest bird communities in the southern Western Ghats, India. PhD
thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.Part of the data (from
transects T2 and T3, in particular) was used in the following
publication:Raman, T. R. S. 2003. Assessment of census techniques for
inter-specific comparisons of tropical rainforest bird densities. Ibis
145: 9-21. http://doi.org/10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00105.xThe Raman (2003)
publication also uses bird point count data (from T2 and T3) available in
a related dataset:  Raman, T. R. S.,  Mudappa, D.,
Jeganathan, P., Joshi, N. V., Sukumar, R. 2022. Data on bird communities
and vegetation in relation to altitude and habitat alteration in the
Kalakad - Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Dryad, Dataset,
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.41ns1rngj GEOGRAPHICAL AREA:
Kalakad-Mundathurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), 895 km² sanctuary located
between 8°25′ to 8°53′ N and 77°10′ to 77°35′ E in Tamil Nadu state in the
Western Ghats mountain range of India. TAXONOMIC SCOPE: Birds, mammals
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: I am grateful to P. Pavithra for help with data entry and
compilation.