Abstract: The investigation of bird diversity at and around the airport is important to carry out bird strike prevention for the newly built airport. Using line transect method and a fixed radius point count method, we investigated the bird diversity in the region of Genghis Khan Airport of Zhalantun and its surrounding area (with a radius of 8 km) in Inner Mongolia from January to December 2015. According to the survey, 82 bird species were recorded, belonging to 31 families and 15 orders. The analysis of bird community structure showed that the highest bird diversity index (0.740) and evenness index (0.819) were found in spring within the airport boundary, the highest dominance indexes (0.683) in winter and the highest average density (2.83 ind·hm^-2) in summer. For the area outside the boundary, the diversity index (1.576) and the average density (28.60 ind·hm^-2) were both highest in summer of the wetland, the evenness index (0.902) was highest in winter of the grassland, and the dominance index (2.113) was highest in winter of residential area. We reassigned the risk value of bird species, and integrated 7 factors to calculate the hazard index based on the previous studies, including the volume and quantity of birds, the number of occurrences, flight height, the distance from the airport, the number of transect occurrence and clustering. The results indicated that there were 14 serious threat species, such as Common Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus), Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) and so on. Accordingly, we proposed advices and control measures for avoiding bird strikes of different seasons, areas and species, which provided scientific basis for future bird strike prevention at Zhalantun Genghis Khan Airport.

Key words: sustainability/sustainable development., three typical developmental patterns, genuine progress indicator, urbanization