ABSTRAK
Telah dilakukan penelitian mengenai komunitas Psittacidae di Kawasan BentangAlam Mbeliling, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur yang mencakup kelimpahanrelatif, dominansi dan komposisi jenis pada tiga lokasi dengan keterwakilanketinggian dan habitat yang berbeda. Pengambilan data dilakukan pada bulan Meidan Juli 2013 di tiga lokasi, yaitu Lengkong Ra?beng, Dencang Mese dan WaeNdae. Metode pengambilan data yang digunakan adalah metode titik hitung (pointcount). Ditemukan sebanyak 330 individu burung paruh-bengkok yang termasukkedalam 4 spesies berbeda yaitu, Tanygnathus megalorynchos, Geoffroyusgeoffroyi, Trichoglossus haematodus weberi dan Loriculus flosculus. Diantarakeempat jenis tersebut, Loriculus flosculus terdaftar sebagai spesies endemikFlores dan Trichoglossus haematodus weberi termasuk sub-spesies endemikFlores. Kelimpahan relatif dinyatakan dalam nilai encounter rates. Nilai indeksdominansi kawasan adalah 0,547.Hasil pengolahan komposisi jenis menyatakankeempat jenis Psittacidae Flores tersebut tersebar kedalam kelompok yangberbeda berdasarkan preferensi tipe habitat yang berbeda. Hal tersebutmenguatkan keberadaan Kawasan Bentang Alam Mbeliling sebagai wilayahpenting untuk konservasi burung paruh-bengkok penetap di Flores.

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ABSTRACT
A study of Psittacidae community had been conducted in the area of Mbelilinglandscape, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. The purpose of this study was to asseslocal Psittacidae community which includes the relative abundance, dominanceand species composition in three locations with their different representations ofhabitats and altitudes. Data were collected in May and July 2013 from threelocations, namely Lengkong Ra'beng, Dencang Mese and Wae Ndae. The datacollection method used is Point Count. As many as 330 individual parrots werefound which are included in 4 different species; Tanygnathus megalorynchos,Geoffroyus geoffroyi, Trichoglossus haematodus weberi and Loriculus flosculus.Amongst the four species found, Loriculus flosculus is listed as Flores?s endemicspecies and Trichoglossus haematodus weberi is included as Flores?s endemicsub-species. The relative abundance of each species are expressed in encounterrates. The dominance index value of Mbeliling region is at 0.547. Results showsthat these four species are dispersed in different group clusters incompositiondependant to the type of habitats represented at three sampling sites.Results pointed out the importance of Mbeliling Landscape area for parrotconservation in Flores.