*4.1. The Traits of Breeding Bird Communities at Traditional Folk Villages in Korea*

TFVs possess diverse habitats like houses (thatched or tile-roofed), cultivation areas (croplands, paddies and orchards), wetlands (rivers and ponds) and forests for breeding birds. Nine species showed different occurrence patterns with forest-dwelling birds at five maeuls in Korea. This could suggest that nine species (*Passer montanus* (PM), *Streptopelia orientalis* (SO), *Hirundo rustica* (HR), *Pica pica* (PP), *Phoenicuros auroreus* (PA), *Paradoxornia webbiana* (PW), *Microscelis amaurotis* (MA), *Carduelis sinica* (CA) and *Oriolus chinensis* (OC)) can be potential species that prefer diverse habitats of TFVs in Korea. Five out of the nine species were canopy nesters (SO, PP, MA, CS, OC), three were house nesters (HR, PA, PM) and one was a bush nester (PW) according to the nest types. These species reflect the diverse use of nesting resources such as trees, shrubs and traditional thatched house in TFVs. Diversity index of nesting type was higher in the order of TFVs, rural [16], urban [12] and forests [17] (Table 3). Diversity of nesting type could be related with functional traits of breeding bird communities in TFVs.


**Table 3.** Comparison of diversity of nesting types among different systems in Korea.
