Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in November by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 7,076 (6,265)
Number of observations: 12.71 lakhs (10.14 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 71,379 (55,978)
Number of species: 1,113 (1,098)
Number of unique lists with media: 7,043 (5,965)
The challenge for December was to upload at least 30 checklists! Out of these, at least 4 lists were to be uploaded from single eBird hotspot. A total of 226 eBirders successfully met this target!
Congratulations to all these birders!
Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Afsar Nayakkan, Aindrila Sarkar, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alefiya Saify, Alen Alex, Am Amsa, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Ambady Sasi, Amrit Raha, Amul Mutha, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Bhaduri , Anirban Kundu, Ankush Nirmalkar Gkvk, Anu Parthasarathy, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Aparna S, Aravind Venkataraman, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Arunsankar N, Asabul Islam, Ash K, Ashika S, Ashit Parida, Ashok Agarwal, Ashwin Viswanathan, Avinash Bhagat, Avishkar Munje, Ayaan S, Azhar Muhammed, Baharuddin Sk, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bharath Ravikumar, Bijoy Venugopal, Chai Eng Law, Chaiti Banerjee, Chandrasekar Sekar, Chetan Anand, Chinmay Bhoyar, Chinmay Dhal, Debankur Biswas, Debapratim Saha, Dev Anand Paul, Dhruba Saikia, Dilip C Gupta, Dipankar Dev, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Elavarasan M, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Gaja Mohanraj, Gani Khatri, Garima Bhatia, Garry Bhatti, Gaurav Nigam, Gireesan Tu, Gopi Anan, Gopi Krishnamurthy, Gowri Shankar S, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hareesha As, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshith Jv, Hiya Chatterjee, Hrishu Aravind, Irvin Calicut, Isheta Divya , Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jayu Munje, Jenny Johny Soloman Samuel, Joe M Raja, Josh Beck, Jugal Borah, Kalyan Gantait, Kalyani Kapdi, Kamal Singh Markam, Kanan Bishnoi, Karthikeyan R, Kathiravan Kanniyappan, Ketki P, Kilson Kiragori, Kim Sã¶Derling, Krishnendu Das, Kuldip Topo, Lakpa Tenzing Sherpa, Lakshmikant Neve, Madhab Gogoi, Madhur Upadhyay, Mahesh Rathod, Maheshwaran Deivasigamani, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manan Mahadev, Manash Pratim, Manish Magare, Manjula Desai, Manoj Pai, Megha Kothadia, Mei-Luan Wang, Mohamed Ansar, Mohammed Hirash, Mohan Raj K., Mohanan Choron, Mohit Sahu, Muhammed Rafi, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Navaneeth Sini George, Neelam Mukherjee, Nimitha R, Nirav Bhatt, Nitin Kumar Raghav, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Nivedita Sorab, Padma Gyalpo, Pampa Mistri, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Pipada, Parag Kokane, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Parvathi Ravikumar, Paul Antony B, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhudatta Bal, Pranad Patil, Prasanna Kalita, Prashanth N S, Praveen Bennur, Pronoy Baidya, Rahul Singh, Rahul Wakare, Raja Simma Pandiyan, Rajashree Kale, Rajendra Koranga, Rajiv R, Rakesh Dhurwey, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Renju Tr, Rofikul Islam, Rose Francis, Rupashree Shivacharada, Sachin Prabhu, Sachin Prajapati, Sagar Naik, Sahana M, Sahil, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samir Nama, Samish Dhongle, Sandeep Kumar Reddy Gangasani, Sandhya Lenka, Sanju Bennur, Sankha Misra, Santanu Manna, Santharam V, Santhi K, Santhosh T L, Santosh Bs, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Satya Sidharth Das, Seema Tangadpalliwar, Seema Tekam, Selvaganesh K, Shajan Shaki, Shakti – Tribesmen.In, Shakti Bishnoi, Shalmali Nalawade, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shyam Sharma Naturalist, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddharth Biniwale, Siva T, Siya Bhagat, Sonali Meravi, Soumya Aditrri, Sourav Mandal, Souvik Ghosh, Sova Ghosh, Sreekanth C, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sri P, Subhadra Devi, Subramania Siva, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sudhir Malik, Sudip Simha, Sujan Chatterjee, Sumiti Saharan, Sunita Dighe, Surendhar Boobalan, Suresh Kumar S, Swarup Sarkar, Syed Kirmany, Team Bws, Toto Hazarika, Umesh Mani, V Sitaram, Vaibhav Patil, Vasen Suli, Vasi., Veerabadhra Rao, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vinod Ooralath Sivaji, Vivekanand Swaminathan, Vivekananda K, Yadu Prasad, Yash Gardare.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 226 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Sakthi Chinnakannu,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.
as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you on track to meet your January target? Don’t forget to add ‘wetland’ in the checklist comments for lists made at wetlands and share them with eBird username: awcindia
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: Greylag Goose Anser anser © Shubham Giri / Macaulay Library
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