Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in May by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 5,738 (6,075)
Number of observations: 8.03 lakhs (8.93 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 50,044 (54,400)
Number of species: 1,057 (1,109)
Number of unique lists with media: 4,585 (5,633)
The challenge for May was to upload at least 20 or more checklists from the same location. A total of 140 eBirders successfully met this target!
Congratulations to all these birders!
Abhishek Karak, Adithya Bhat, Ahmad Faiz Mustafa, Ains Priestman, Ajay Sarvagnam, Amanda Cunningham-Balonek, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Ambady Sasi, Amrit Raha, Amsa Am, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Anjali Krishna, Ankush Nirmalkar, Anthony Lawrence, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Anurupa Shil, Aravind Am, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Ayush P Nair, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, Baharuddin Sk, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bikash Dalbot Shira, Dipankar Dev, Divyaraj Shah, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Elavarasan M, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Fulchand Shiv, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Garvita Garg, Gayathri Mukunda, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harshith Jv, Irvin Calicut, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jayu Munje, Joel Rodrigues, Kanan Bishnoi, Keerthi Priya, Kilson Kiragori, Ksheetij Pandey, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Madhavi Babtiwale, Madhu Gupta, Mahendra Hegde, Mahesh Rathod, Mahmadanesh Khira, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Manoj Pai, Megha Kothadia, Mitul And Vijul Singh, Mohit Sahu, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Navaneeth Sini George, Nicholas Iyadurai, Nishand Venugopal, Om Raut, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parag Kokane, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Pavan Mohan, Pawan Dhall, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhudatta Bal, Pradeep C R, Pranad Patil, Priya Rudra Paul, Pronoy Baidya, Qmr Telangana, R Sriram, Rachita Priyadarshini Sahoo, Rahul Wakare, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Rajubhai Patel, Rakesh Bisht, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Rasheeda Mol, Ravi Kavungal, Regin Ross, Saddam Husain, Sadvi Malnad, Sahana M, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samir E, Sandhya Lenka, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Saranya R, Satya Sidharth Das, Saurabh Chandra, Seema Meravi, Shailendra Badonia, Shakti Bishnoi, Shalini MR, Shamika Mahamuni, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shilpa Gadgil, Shuvendu Das, Shveta Jadhav, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddharth Biniwale, Sidharth Srinivasan, Siva T, Sourav Mandal, Sova Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar D, Steffin Babu, Subramania Siva, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sujith Raj Salian, Sujith Ravindran, Sunita Dighe, Tuk Tuk, Vaibhav Patil, Vasen Suli, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vishnu T S, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Rawat, Yash Gardare.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 140 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Madhavi Babtiwale who receives a copy of The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching by Aasheesh Pittie as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you up to date with the eBird India challenge for June?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: White-bellied Sea-Eagle Icthyophaga leucogaster © Kalyan Gantait / Macaulay Library
