2017 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 eBird Yearlong Challenge.

Challenge	Winner	Prize	No. Qualifiers
Prolific	Raphy Kallettumkara	The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman	51
Prolific	Abhijith Surendran, Aisha Sultana, Ajay Gadikar, Anish Aravind, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arulvelan Thillainayagam, Avinash Sharma, Chirag Munje, Dr George P J, Elavarasan M, Emanuel George, Ganeshwar SV, Gokul Vadivel, Govind Girija, Gowthama Poludasu, Hari Mavelikara, Jamaludheen Karivelil, Jayadev Menon, Jaydev Mandal, Lakshmikant Neve, Latha Prabhakaran, Manju Sinha, Maxim Rodrigues K, Murugesh Natesan, Nalini Aravind, Namassivayan Lakshmanan, Omkar Dharwadkar, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Gupta, Prashantha Krishna M C, Praver Mourya, Premchand Reghuvaran, Ramit Singal, Raphy Kallettumkara, Renju TR, Sajeev Krishnan, Sandhya Lenka, Sasidharan Manekkara, Sathyan Meppayur, Selvaganesh K, Shah Jahan, Shanmugam Kalidass, Shwetha Bharathi, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar E R, Steffin Babu, Subramania Siva, Sumesh PB, Thanigai Velu, Vidhya Sundar, Vinod Shankar
Consistent	Chirag Munje	Tales of Remarkable Birds Dominic Couzens	22
Consistent	Aisha Sultana, Ajay Gadikar, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arnold Goveas, Chirag Munje, Elavarasan M, Ganeshwar SV, Gowthama Poludasu, Harshjeet Bal, Jayadev Menon, Lakshmikant Neve, Manju Sinha, Namassivayan Lakshmanan, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Gupta, Sandhya Lenka, Selvaganesh K, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Steffin Babu, Vidhya Sundar, Vinay Nadig, Vinod Shankar
Adventurous	Arnab Pal	What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World Jon Young	9
Adventurous	Aravind Amirtharaj, Arnab Pal, Jamaludheen Karivelil, Latha Prabhakaran, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Praver Mourya, Premchand Reghuvaran, Sahana M, Shwetha Bharathi
Faithful	Jayadev Menon	One More Warbler: A Life with Birds Victor Emanuel, S. Kirk Walsh	34
Faithful	Aisha Sultana, Ajay Gadikar, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arulvelan Thillainayagam, Avinash Sharma, Ayush Rajotia, Chirag Munje, Deepti Krishnan, Elavarasan M, Forest Venkat, Ganeshwar SV, Gowthama Poludasu, Harshjeet Bal, Jayadev Menon, Kadambari Devarajan, Lakshmikant Neve, Manju Sinha, Mittal Gala, Murugesh Natesan, Namassivayan Lakshmanan, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Gupta, Pushpa Puliyeri, Rajesh Prasad, Renju TR, Sajeev Krishnan, Sandhya Lenka, Shanmugam Kalidass, Sivakumar S, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Steffin Babu, Sumesh PB, Vidhya Sundar, Vinay Nadig
Dedicated	Jaswinder Waraich	The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration Bernd Heinrich	44
Dedicated	Abhishek Ravindra, Adhithyan NK, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arnab Pal, Arnold Goveas, Avinash Sharma, Elavarasan M, Fermin Jose, Forest Venkat, Ganeshwar SV, Harshith JV, Irshad Theba, Jamaludheen Karivelil, Jaswinder Waraich, Jayadev Menon, Lakshmikant Neve, Latha Prabhakaran, Mamta Parmar, Manju Sinha, Mohit Aggarwal, Murugesh Natesan, Namassivayan Lakshmanan, Omkar Dharwadkar, Pankaj Gupta, Premchand Reghuvaran, Raimund Barth, Rajesh Panwar, Raju Kasambe, Raphy Kallettumkara, Ravi Naidu, Renju TR, Renuka Vijayaraghavan, Rofikul Islam, Sahana M, Sajeev Krishnan, Sandhya Lenka, Santosh Kumar Thakur (Wildlifer), Selvaganesh K, Shwetha Bharathi, Sohail Madan, Steffin Babu, Taukeer Alam Lodha, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vinod Shankar
eBirder of the Year	Elavarasan M	The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future Jim Robbins	14
eBirder of the Year	Ajay Gadikar, Aravind Amirtharaj, Chirag Munje, Elavarasan M, Ganeshwar SV, Govind Girija, Gowthama Poludasu, Jayadev Menon, Lakshmikant Neve, Murugesh Natesan, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Selvaganesh K, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Vidhya Sundar

Well done to all birders who met targets for any of the yearlong challenges. The category winners all receive the books listed above.

Special congratulations to the very devoted who qualified for the eBirder of the Year. There can only be one overall winner though, and, drawn from random from the twelve qualifiers, is: