Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in August by-the-numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 3,013 (2,866)
Number of observations: 3.9 lakh (3.5 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 24,465 (22,020)
Number of species: 883 (891)
Number of lists with media: 2,116 (2,206)
The challenge for August was to upload 20+ lists with behavior comments and breeding codes . A total of 26 birders met the target!
Adil Ali, Amrit Raha, Anish Bera, Ashok Agarwal, Dipankar Dev, Gaja Mohanraj, Hakimuddin F Saify, Irvin Calicut, Jayadev Menon, Krishnendu Das, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Manoj Pai, Mehala Kumar, Michael Kearns, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sharad Apte, Shilpa Gadgil, Shrushti Bokil, Siddharth Biniwale, Sourav Mandal, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Supriya Kulkarni, V Sitaram, Vidhya Swaminathan.
(updated on 4 Oct at 17:50 hrs)
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 25 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Sharad Apte who receives a copy of *Bird Sense: What’s It’s Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for October?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!
- updated on 18 Oct 2023
Header Image: Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida by Albin Jacob/ Macaulay Library
