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: 4,052 (3,713)
Number of observations: 5.19 lakhs (4.6 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 34,231 (30,485)
Number of species: 922 (900)
Number of unique lists with media: 3,300 (2,729)
The challenge for August was to upload at least 20 or more lists from the same location . A total of 133 eBirders successfully met this target!
Congratulations to all these birders!
Aamir Nasirabadi, Abhay K, Adil Ali, Ains Priestman, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alefiya Saify, Am Amsa, Ambady Sasi, Amee Vyas, Amrit Raha, Anil Kumar Dhurvey, Anish Bera, Anjali Krishna, Anu Parthasarathy, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Anurupa Shil, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Ashok Agarwal, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, Bhaarat Vyas, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Bhupen Sonowal, Chai Eng Law, Chetan Anand, Chirag Munje, Chitra Ingole, Dibyendu Ash, Dinesh Chaudhary, Dipu Sasi, Divyaraj Shah, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Dr. Vivek Vaidyanathan, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Fulchand Shiv, Full.Name, Gaja Mohanraj, Ghanshyam Prasad Bhanware, Gireesan Tu, Gowthami N, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harshith Jv, Isheta Divya , Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jayu Munje, Jibina Johnson, K K Abraham, Kilson Kiragori, Krishnendu Das, Kunan Naik, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Madhavi Babtiwale, Madhu Gupta, Madhur Upadhyay, Mahesh Rathod, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Mehala Kumar, Mohan Kumar M, Mohit Sahu, Moovendan Ramalingam, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Naman Doshi, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Neelakantan Kk, Nishand Venugopal, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhudatta Bal, Pranad Patil, Priya Chinnasamy, Priyam Kotwal, R Sriram, Rahul Chetre, Rahul Wakare, Rajdeep Sarkar, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Rajubhai Patel, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Regin Ross, Renju Tr, Rofikul Islam, Sachin Prabhu, Sahana M, Sahil Ðÿ§, Saikat Das, Samir E, Sandeep Kumar Reddy Gangasani, Sandhya Lenka, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Satya Sidharth Das, Sharad Apte, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shilpa Gadgil, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Sourav Mandal, Sova Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar D, Sri P, Srinivas Mallela, Subhayan Biswas, Tejas Natu, Tuk Tuk, V Sitaram, Vaibhav Patil, Varsha Varsha, Vasen Suli, Vedkumari Verma, Vidhya Sundar, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vipul Dhawle, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 133 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Chitra Ingole who receives a signed copy of At the feet of Living Things by Aparajita Datta, Rohan Arthur, and T.R. Shankar Raman 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 2024!
Header Image: Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus © Mohith Shenoy / Macaulay Library
