Studies are carried out to record the avifauna diversity in Malatwadi and its adjacent area of Chandgad tashil in Kolhapur district of southern Maharashtra. Field work was carried out from January 2012 to October 2012. A total of 123 bird species were documented belonging to 18 orders, 58 families and 103 genera. Passeriformes alone represents 52% (64) of the total bird species followed by Ciconiformes (12) and Falconiformes (8). Ten orders represented by 6-2 bird species. Anseriformes, Podicipediformes, Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes and Upupiformes consists one bird species each. Among the families Accipitridae consist maximum (7) number of bird species. Fourteen families represented by 5-3 bird species and rest of the families represent one or two bird species.
