*3.1. Characteristics of Breeding Bird Community at Traditional Folk Villages*

We recorded total 60 species of birds at five maeuls, including 20 canopy nesters, 13 hole nesters, 8 bush nesters, 7 water nesters and 5 house nesters. From a viewpoint of diet type, the species were mainly composed of 35 insectivores, 8 predators and 6 piscivores (Appendix A). Among the five regions, Wanggok (WG) maeul showed the highest number of birds, 38 species, and Hangae maeul had the lowest value, 29 species of birds. Hole, bush and canopy nesters were highly observed at Wanggok maeul (WG), while nesting birds near water areas were high at Hahoe maeul (Figure 2a). From the viewpoint of average densities, the values of house nesters were high at Yangdong, Nagan, Wanggok and Hahoe maeul, but low at Hangae maeul (Figure 2b). Diversity of diet types showed the highest value of 1.4967 at Hahoe maeul, and the lowest of 1.2968 at Nagan maeul. Densities of riverine insectivores like wagtails and plovers were high at Hahoe maeul (Figure 2c)

**Figure 2.** Percentage of nesting type based on the number of species (**a**), average densities (**b**) and diet types based on the average densities (**c**) at five maeuls.
