Table 2:

Ranking of bird families based on the PC and MN methods at the PIWR, Peninsular Malaysia.

Family name	PC method			MN method
	No. of species	No. of observations	%	No. of species	No. of individuals	%
Columbidae	6	3721	26.82	3	283	19.15
Pycnonotidae	2	1696	12.23	2	385	26.05
Rallidae	7	1485	10.71	6	28	1.89
Sturnidae	5	1333	9.61	4	18	1.22
Estrildidae	3	637	4.59	2	40	2.71
Ardeidae	9	616	4.44	5	84	5.68
Meropidae	2	386	2.78	2	35	2.37
Ploceidae	1	378	2.72	1	141	9.54
Hirundinidae	1	353	2.54	1	5	0.34
Anatidae	2	337	2.43	1	2	0.14
Alcidinidae	2	334	2.41	3	68	4.60
Charadriidae	1	261	1.88	2	13	0.88
Motacillidae	1	257	1.83	1	31	2.10
Aegithinidae	2	227	1.64	2	24	1.62
Turdidae	1	203	1.46	1	49	3.32
Cisticolidae	3	189	1.36	2	12	0.81
Oriolidae	1	178	1.28	1	3	0.20
Cuculidae	6	170	1.23	3	19	1.29
Rhipiduridae	1	167	1.20	1	39	2.64
Laniidae	2	163	1.18	1	31	2.10
Passeridae*	1	112	0.81	0	0	0
Sylviidae	7	102	0.74	5	37	2.50
Phasianidae	2	88	0.63	1	1	0.07
Nectariniidae	7	84	0.61	2	10	0.68
Campephagidae	2	80	0.58	1	17	1.15
Picidae	4	78	0.57	1	13	0.88
Corvidae**	2	50	0.36	0	0	0
Coraciidae	1	40	0.29	1	1	0.07
Scolopacidae	2	37	0.27	1	6	0.41
Accipitridae	5	24	0.17	2	3	0.20
Caprimulgidae	2	24	0.17	2	62	4.19
Turnicidae	1	20	0.14	1	10	0.68
Muscicapidae	1	14	0.10	1	1	0.07
Podicipedidae*	1	11	0.08	0	0	0
Pachycephalidae*	1	8	0.06	0	0	0
Jacanidae	1	7	0.05	0	0	0
Dicruridae**	1	1	0.01	0	0	0
Emberizidae**	1	1	0.01	0	0	0
Apodidae*	0	0	0	1	3	0.20
Strigidae*	0	0	0	2	4	0.27
Total	100	13872		65	1478

Notes:

^*families missed by the PC method,

^**families missed by the MN method.