April is an interesting month for birding. Many remaining winter migrants are on their way back, and breeding activity is widespread among residents and summer visitors. Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in April 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,746 (2,227)
Number of lists (all types): 17,000 (24,000)
Number of observations: 3.00 lakh (4.33 lakh)
April challenge
The challenge for April was to upload at least 30 eligible lists (details at the link above). Of the 1,746 eBirders in this month, 107 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| AAKIB HUSSAIN Adil Ali ADIL NAFAR Afthab Faisal k Ains Priestman Amal U S AM AMSA Andrew Spencer Andy Walker Angeline Mano Ankit Vikrant Aravind AM Aravind Amirtharaj Arjun R Ashwin Viswanathan Bhanu Sridharan B.R. Ansil Chirag Solanki Chitra Shanker Claudia Pinheiro Deepti Krishnan Dhananjai Mohan Dhruba Saikia Dipu Karuthedathu Divin Venu Elavarasan M fermin jose Ghani Singh Gillian Wright Glenn Giacinto GOVIND GIRIJA Hakimuddin F Saify Hareesha AS hari kumar Harish Dobhal Harshith JV HARSHJEET BAL Hemant Ware Howard Laidlaw Irshad Theba Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jishnu Narayanan JOE M RAJA KARTHIKEYAN R Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Lathika K K Manju Sinha manoj p g Meghana Natesh Mehala Kumar |
Mohanan Choron Narendran M.M Panchapakesan Jeganathan Peter Boesman Prabhudatta Bal Prachi Thatte Praveen es Praveen J Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Rajarajan V Rajesh Prasad Rajesh Radhakrishnan Ramakrishnan Kumaranallur Raman Kumar Ramesh Desai Ramit Singal Ramnarayan K Regin Ross Renju TR Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Sandip Das Santharam V Saurabh Sawant Selvaganesh K Sheena S Shilpa Gadgil Sreekumar Chirukandoth Sreekumar E R SRINILA MAHESH K T Sriram Reddy Steffin Babu Subbu Subramanya Subhadra Devi subramania siva S – V I S H N U S A N K A R SYAMILI MANOJ Taukeer Alam Lodha Ted Wolff vaazhaikumar kumar vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Swaminathan Vidya Raju Vijay Ramachandran Vijay Rj Vinay Das Vinay K L viral joshi Vivek Puliyeri |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
Eligible checklists of all the people listed above were put into a pool and one list with an audio recording was drawn using a computer-generated random number. That list belongs to
Saurabh Sawant (see profile)
who receives a copy of A Bird’s Egg: The Most Perfect Thing, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for May (30 checklists with breeding codes)? And there is also the set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
