No. of birders: 8,164 (7,076)
Number of observations: 15.99 lakhs (12.71 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 86,628 (71,379)
Number of species: 1,112 (1,113)
Number of unique lists with media: 7,668 (7,043)
The challenge for January was to upload a minimum of 31 complete checklists and with at least 2 checklists to be from 2 different wetlands. A total of 306 eBirders successfully met this target.
Congratulations to all these birders!
Aarti Singh, Abhijith S, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Afsar Nayakkan, Ains Priestman, Ajay Arnold, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alan Mauer, Am Amsa, Aman Joy, Amar Ramsinghani, Amirtha O, Amitava Dutta, Amrit Raha, Anand Bhandari, Anand Birdlife, Anand Rangpara, Anand Singh, Angela Romanczuk, Angeline Mano M, Anish Bera, Anishka Badonia, Ankush Sahani, Ansar Ahmad Bhat, Ansar Khan, Aparna S, Apurba Sonowal, Aravind Am, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Arunsankar N, Arvind Gajbhiye , Ashit Parida, Ashwin Hp, Ashwin Hp, Ashwin Viswanathan, Aswathi Shibu, Avinash Bhagat, Ayaan S, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, Baharuddin Sk, Bhaarat Vyas, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bijoy Venugopal, Bird Idiot, Birder Baba, Biren Shah, C P Sethumadhavan, Carol Majors, Caxton David, Chaiti Banerjee, Chandramouli Ganguly, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chirantanu Saikia, Chitradevi Paramasivam, Chris Gladwin, Clara Correia, Dan Coleman, Decie Coleman, Deepak Kumar, Dev Anand Paul, Devanshi Sheth, Dhruba Saikia, Dhyey Shah, Diane Hoffman, Digvijay Singh Rathore, Dipankar Dev, Dombe Pradhan, Dominic Rollinson, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Kavita Bandivadekar, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr Nandini Patil, Dr Shivoham Shukla, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Bharat Jethva, Dr. Vivek Vaidyanathan, Elavarasan M, Eswara Moorthy, Faisal Fasaludeen, Faruk Chauhan, Fulchand Shiv, Gaja Mohanraj, Ganeshwar S V, Gani Khatri, Garima Bhatia, Garry Bhatti, Gaurav Mehta, Gaurav Sinha, Gayathri E. R., Gayathri Mukunda, Geetha Mani, Gopi Raji, Gowathaman Ganesan, Gyanchandra Gyani, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harshith Jv, Hemanth Byatroy, Hrishikesh Karandikar, Ilyas Khan, Irfan Jeelani , Irshad Theba, Jabili – Tribesmen.In, Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Jaime Sterling, Janardanan R, Jason Estep, Jason Hall, Jaswinder Waraich, Jayadev Menon, Jaydev Mandal, Jeff Kenney, Joan Suther, Joe M Raja, John Bruce, John Cooper, John Harshman, John Sterling, Joseph Krovoza, Josh Beck, Joshua Bergmark, Jugal Borah, Kalaiselvan V, Kalyani Kapdi, Kamal C Kishinani, Kamal Ingti, Kamal Ku, Karthikeyan R, Kathiravan Kanniyappan, Kaustubh Rau, Kedar Champhekar, Ken Behrens, Kessy George , Khatri Safi, Khemraj Verma, Kilson Kiragori, Kiran Bisht, Kirti Kanta Sethy, Kirubakaran Valayapathi, Krishnamoorthy Raju, Krishnendu Das, Ksheetij Pandey, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika K K, Lathika Anoth, Leio De Souza, Litto K, Lokesh Kumar, Lokesh Lakhorkar, Madhu Chandran, Madhu Gupta, Mahadevan Wildlife Photographer, Mahendra Hegde, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manash Pratim, Manjeet Gawas, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Manoj Pai, Marco Mei, Marco Valentini, Max Berlijn, Max Breckenridge, Mayuri Jani, Mika Ohtonen, Mike Sylvia, Milind Sawdekar, Mithran Shvram, Mohammed Sayeer, Mohan Raj K., Mohanan Choron, Mohd Asif, Mohit Sahu, Mollee Brown, Monica Sri K, Moovendan Ramalingam, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Murugavel S, Naga Arjun, Nandan Zoologist, Nandhu Sekaran, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Nick Athanas, Nick Blackwood, Nileshkumar Kshirsagar, Nirav Bhatt, Nitin Kumar Raghav, Nosherwan Sethna, Novelkumar M S, Omkar Dharwadkar, Padma Gyalpo, Pamela Hodgson, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Paul Anderson, Peter Lobo, Phil Burton, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhjeet S, Prabhudatta Bal, Prabu Ranjit Edison, Pranad Patil, Prasanna Kalita, Prasath Selvaraj, Prithiv Venkat, Prodip Sarder, Pronoy Baidya, Rahul Wakare, Raja Simma Pandiyan, Rajender Kumar, Rajesh Kalra, Rajesh Prasad, Ralph Foote, Rama M V, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Ray O’Reilly, Regin Ross, Reji Chandran, Renju Tr, Rick Vetter, Rita Khandekar, Roaming Owls, Robert Rackliffe, Rofikul Islam, Rohit Tibrewal, Rojo Johnarson, Ronith Urs, Rupashree Shivacharada, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samakshi Tiwari, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sanjay Sondhi, Sankar V, Santhi K, Saphal Patil, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sarthy Prasanth, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Satya Sidharth Das, Savio Fonseca, Savita Akkole, Seema Tania, Selvaganesh K, Shailendra Badonia, Shajan Shaki, Shakti – Tribesmen.In, Shalmali Nalawade, Sharad Gajbhiye, Sheik Sparro, Shikra Myna, Shilpa Gadgil, Shubham Giri, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Shyju S, Siva T, Sohail Madan, Soubhagya Mohanty, Soumya Aon, Sourav Mandal, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sriram Reddy, Subhadra Devi, Subramania Siva, Sudhakar S, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sunita Dighe, Surendhar Boobalan, Suzanne Beauchesne, Suzie Snyder, Swarnab Ghosh, Theresa Brown, Tom Lewis, Troy Corman, Tuk Tuk, Uma Vaijnath, V Sitaram, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vaibhav Patil, Vasen Suli, Vidhya Ananthavel, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vineeth Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Virginia Fairchild, Vishnu Sagar, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Rawat, Vivekanand Swaminathan, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas, Wink Gross, Yash Gardare, Yash Nandurkar
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 306 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Sunita Dighe, who receives a 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 on checked the eBird India challenge for March? Don’t forget to add ‘wetland’ in the checklist comments for lists made at waterbodies.
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
The results of eBird India’s Yearlong Challenge for 2024 can be seen here.
Header Image: Tickell’s Thrush Turdus unicolor by Savithri Singh/ Macaulay Library
