The challenge for October was straightforward — to upload lists for at least 25 days of the month. The last time we did this was in March 2015, when 19 birders met the target for the month. How many managed it this time?
Overall, during October, the number of complete, effort-based lists of at least 15 min was 5,100. In all, 560 birders uploaded 6,000 lists of all types from the month, together accounting for just over 1 lakh observations from India, around the same as last month.
Of the 560 August eBirders, 43 met or exceeded the target of 25 days of birding! They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
Abdul Raheem Munderi
Abhirami C
Abhishek Gulshan
Ajay Gadikar
Anish Aravind
Balwant Negi
Bijumon KE
Dilip Polpakkara
Dr George P J
Erle Brito
Ganeshwar SV
Gnanaskandan Kesavabharathi
Hemanth Byatroy
Jaydev Mandal
Kaustubh Rau
Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan
Manju Sinha
Namassivayan Lakshmanan
Narayan Sharma
Nelson George
Nisha M
Panchapakesan Jeganathan
Phani Krishna Ravi
Prashanth N S
Premchand Reghuvaran
Priyadarshini K
Raja Simma Pandiyan
Raman Kumar
Renju TR
Selvaganesh K
Shanmugam Kalidass
Sheeba Nanjan
Sneha Gupta
Somoyita Sur
Steffin Babu
Subramanian Sankar
Suhel Quader
Sumesh B
Swati Sidhu
Tanya Seshadri
T R Shankar Raman
Vaidehi Gunjal
Vidhya Sundar
Many congratulations to all of them!
One of these 43 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift, and that person is
Raja Simma Pandiyan
who receives a copy of How to be a (bad) birdwatcher by Simon Barnes. (You can read reviews here and here.)
Here is the full list of all 560 eBirders from October 2015:
Aaditya S Kumar, Aamir Shaikh, Aaqid Mukhdoomi, Aasheesh Pittie, Aathira Perinchery, Abdul Raheem Munderi, Abhay Hule, abhijith a.p.c, Abhijith surendran, Abhirami C, Abhishek Gulshan, abhishek jamalabad, Abhishek Maiya, Able Lawrence, Adesh Shivkar, Adithya Bhat, Aditi Prasad, Advait Marathe, Afthab Faisal k, Aidan & Savio Fonseca, Ajay Gadikar, Ajit A, AJU RAJU, Akshay Mokal, Albin Jacob, Amal U S, Amey Ketkar, Amit Kumar, Amlan Dutta, Amol Bapat, Amol Lopes, Amrit Menon, Anamika Menon, Anand Sundaram, anant pande, Andrew Preston, Aneesh Sasidevan, Anil Mahajan, anil singh, Anirban Pal, Anish Aravind, Anjali J, Ankit Vikrant, Ankur Shah, Anoop CR, Anoop King, Anoop Singh, anshuman sarkar, Anubhuti Jain, Anupam Khanna, Anuradha Krishnan, Anurag Chhajlani, Anurag Katre, Aparajita Datta, Appavu Pavendhan, Arabinda Pal, Arathy S Kumar, Aravind AM, Aravindh Soundararajan, Arjun CP, arnob bora, Arnold Goveas, Arun Bhaskaran, arun lal, Arun Varghese, Arvind vaid, Aryan Shahi, Arya Vinod, Ashish Gupta, Ashni Dhawale, ASHOK MADHAVAN, Ashritha Anoop, Ashutosh Singh, Ashwin Hp, Ashwin kadiyala, ashwin mohan, Ashwin Viswanathan, Aswathy rajan, Atindra Katti, Austina Ribanar, Avishkar Munje, Ayilai Hoopoe, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, Balaji P B, Balwant Negi, Banu Prakash KN, Baseer Baniya, Bhalchandra Pujari, Bhargav Shandilya, bijumon ke, Bopanna Pattada, Chetana Purushotham, Chinmay Rahane, chithrabhanu pakaravoor, Chris Bowden, Chris Goulart, Cinchona GHS(Group account), CLAREENA JOSE, CNS Nature, Colin Braganza, Conrad Braganza, David Crexcrex, David Raju, david stanton, Deepak Jois, Deepak Sahu, Deepa Mohan, Dhananjai Mohan, dhananjay bhamburkar, Dhanesh Ayyappan, Dhavalaganga Acharya, dhiren malani, diksha satarkar, dilip kg, Dilip Polpakkara, Dilip Virkhade, Dinesh Pundir, dipak bowalkar, Dipak Sinha, Dipu Karuthedathu, Divya Mudappa, divya srivastava, Dr Akshata Rao, Dr George P J, Duraiswamy Navaneetham, Dwiref Oza, Emanuel george , Enakshi Bhattacharya, Erle Brito, Ezhupunna Birders, Fauzia Arief, Ganesh Raghunathan, Ganeshwar S V, Garima Bhatia, Gaurang Bagda, Gaurav Nalkur, Gaurav Shirodkar, Geetha Ramaswami, Geetha Venkataraman, Ginu George, Gireesh Pallikkara, Girish Jathar, Gitanjali Katlam, Gnanaskandan Kesavabharathi, Gokul Krishna, G Parameswaran, Griffith Michael, Gunasekaran m, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hanuman Gawas, Hari Krishna Adepu, Harikrishnan Surendran, hari kumar, HARI MAVELIKARA, HARSHADA GAUNS, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harsh Buty, Harshith JV, Hemant Dhadnekar, Hemanth Byatroy, Hemanya Radadia, hemraj duraiswami, Hopeland P, induchoodan sreedharan amalath, Intesar Suhail, Jadeswamy Madaiah, Jagadish Kannan, jaishankar v, James Williams, janani manthena, Janhvi Vyas, Jayadev Menon, jayakrishnan mannar, Jayan Thomas, Jayant Wadatkar, jayaprakash m t, Jaydev Mandal, Jayesh Ghanekar, Jeetendra Chaware, Jeremy Bowman, Jinesh P S, jithesh pai, John Joseph Chelladurai, Jorgen Thomsen, joshua Dsilva, JUGAL PATEL, Jyothi Arun, Jyothish Nelson, Jyoti Hiremath, Jyoti Rani Ahlawat, Kaajal Dasgupta, Kalaimani Ayuthavel , Kalyan Varma, Kanad Baidya, Karan Tambe, Karthik Enumulla, Karthikeyan G B, kasthuri dev, Kathiresh D, Kaushal Patel, Kaustubh Rau, Kavi Nanda, Kiran ., kiran more, Kishore Bakshi, KN Sivakumar, Komal Agrawal, Krishna Deepak, Krishna Girish, Krishna Mathur, Krishna Murthy, Krishnaveni K, Kshipra Suresh, K.Sravan Kumar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan, Latha G A, Lekshmi Jayakumar, Luis “Beto” Matheus, Madhumita Panigrahi, Madhurima Das, madhushri mudke, mahathi narayanaswamy, Mahesh madhu, Makarand Bokil, Mamta Megha, Mandar Bhagat, Mangesh Bawankar , Mangirish Dharwadkar, manish kerkar, Manjula Ravi, Manjunath R S, Manju Sinha, Manohara Kamath, Manoj Bind, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manu Mengi, Manu V, manzoor, rouf, Marvelyn Dias, Maulik Varu, MAXIM RODRIGUES K, Mayank Kumar, Mayuresh Ambekar, M D Madhusudan, Megha Chagtoo, Meghna Banerjee, Mich Coker, Mike Prince, Mittal Gala, M.K. 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Are you doing your best to match the target for November (25 days of birding)? And don’t forget the several flavours of yearlong challenges for 2015!
Header Image: Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus © Martin Flack/ Macaulay Library/ IBC