Taxonomic and functional diversity of birds in a rural landscape of high Andean forest, Colombia Lina P. Sarmiento-Garavito 1 , Juan S. García-Monroy 1 , Juan E. Carvajal-Cogollo 1 1 Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad and Conservación, Museo de Historia Natural Luis Gonzalo Andrade Natural, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Address Avenida Central del Norte 39-115, 150003 Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia Corresponding author: Juan E. Carvajal-Cogollo (juancarvajalc@gmail.com) Academic editor: A. M. Leal-Zanchet  | Received 18 March 2021 | Accepted 2 February 2022 | Published 17 February 2022 Citation: Sarmiento-Garavito LP, García-Monroy JS, Carvajal-Cogollo JE (2022) Taxonomic and functional diversity of birds in a rural landscape of high Andean forest, Colombia. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 17(1): 39–57. https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.17.e66096 Abstract We evaluated the taxonomic and functional diversity of birds in a rural landscape in the north-eastern Andes of Colombia. We carried out seven field trips and used transects of 300 m, separated from each other by 500 m in the dominant plant cover of the rural landscape. We measured alpha (α) and beta (β) diversity at both the taxonomic and functional levels. We registered 10 orders, 21 families, 56 genera and 63 species of birds. In wooded pasture, we recorded 55 species and a relative abundance of 66% and 44 and 34% for an Andean forest fragment. e species that contributed the most to the dissimilarity between the covers were Zonotrichia capensis, Turdus fuscater, Mecocerculus leucophrys, Atlapetes latinuchus and Crotophaga ani. We identified nine functional types, where G1 was made up of small species with anissodactyl and pamprodactyl legs that were insectivorous, frugivorous and nectarivorous as the best represented. e FEve and FDiv were 0.51 and 0.74, respectively in the Andean forest fragment plant cover and, for the wooded pasture, the FEve was 0.45 and the FDiv was 0.81. Both cover types contributed to the diversity of the rural landscape and the dynamics that existed between them formed a complementary factor that favoured the taxonomic and functional richness of the characterised rural landscape. Keywords Colombian Andes, countryside, functional traits, species composition, species richness, transformed landscape Neotropical Biology and Conservation 17(1): 39–57 (2022) doi: 10.3897/neotropical.17.e66096 Copyright Lina P. Sarmiento-Garavito et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. RESEARCH ARTICLE