June is an odd month when parts of India are still reeling in the heat and other parts see heavy rain — neither very conducive to birding. Still, you can’t keep birders away from birding! Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in June 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,430 (1,600)
Number of lists (all types): 11,400 (14,600)
Number of observations: 1.90 lakh (2.40 lakh)
June challenge
The challenge for June was to upload at least 30 lists, 3 of which report a brood-parasitic cuckoo (details at the link above). Of the 1,430 eBirders in this month, 98 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| ADIL NAFAR Ajay Gadikar Amal U S AM AMSA Andrew Spencer Angeline Mano Aravind AM Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arvind Yadav Ashwin Viswanathan Ayyanna TH Baseer Baniya B.R. Ansil Chayant Gonsalves Chitra Shanker Civin Solomon Claudia Pinheiro Debanjan Sarkar Deepti Krishnan Dhananjai Mohan Dhruba Saikia Dr George P J Dr. NISHAD PM Elavarasan M GOVIND GIRIJA Hakimuddin F Saify Hareesha AS hari kumar Harish Dobhal Harshith JV HARSHJEET BAL Hemant Ware Irshad Theba irvin calicut Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jishnu Narayanan JOE M RAJA KARTHIKEYAN R Kishore P Lakshmikant Neve Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan Lathika K K Malyasri Bhattacharya Manju Sinha manoj p g MAXIM RODRIGUES K Meena Balgopal Mehala Kumar |
MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala Narendran M.M Nitu S Panchapakesan Jeganathan PANKAJ GUPTA Paul Ode Prabhudatta Bal pradeep chandran a j Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Rahul Singh Rajarajan V Rajesh Panwar Rajesh Prasad Rajesh Radhakrishnan Ramaswamy V Ramesh Desai Ramnarayan K Regin Ross Renju TR Rohan Chakravarty Roshan Tamang Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Santharam V Selvaganesh K sheeba nanjan Sheena S Shilpa Gadgil Shuvendu Das SRINILA MAHESH K T Sriram Reddy Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Suhel Quader S ~ V I S H N U S A N K A R Taukeer Alam Lodha Tushar Agarwal vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Swaminathan Vijaya Lakshmi Vinay K L Vinay Nadig Vinod Shankar Virender Sharma Vivek Puliyeri |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From these 98 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is
Lakshmikant Neve (see profile)
who receives a copy of Bird Sense, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for July (10 shared birdlists)? And there is also the set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
Thanks BirdCount India & eBird for making me habitual for Birding.