Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in June by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 4,802 (5,738)
Number of observations: 6.35 lakhs (8.03 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 40,109 (50,044)
Number of species: (1,057)): 959
The June challenge was to submit 25 checklists, with at least five including a brood-parasitic cuckoo. A total of 240 eBirders successfully met this target!
Congratulations to all these birders!
Abhinav Jeevan K, Abhishek Karak, Adarsh Ajay, Adhithyan Nk, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Afsar Nayakkan, Ains Priestman, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alefiya Saify, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Ambady Sasi, Amee Vyas, Ampady Sugathan, Amrit Raha, Amsa A M, Anagha Reji, Anand Birdlife, Anand Singh, Anil Kumar T, Anjali Krishna, Anjel Debbarma, Ankush Nirmalkar, Ankush Sahani, Anshuman Pradhan, Anthony Lawrence, Anu Parthasarathy, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Anurupa Shil, Aravind Am, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Ashit Parida, Ashok Agarwal, Ashwin A, Ashwin Viswanathan, Atharva Gijare, Ayush P Nair, Baby Baul, Baharuddin Sk, Basavaraj Mulage, Bhaarat Vyas, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bijoy Venugopal, Bikash Dalbot Shira, Chai Eng Law, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chethan Hirikara, Chirag Munje, Debashree Das, Debjani Bhattacharjee, Delhi Atlas, Dev Anand Paul, Dhanushya M, Dibyendu Ash, Digvijay Singh Rathore, Dipankar Dev, Divyaraj Shah, Dr. Bipasha David, Dr. Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Nandini Patil, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Dr. Rajesh Kumar Gurjwar, Elavarasan M, Faisal Fasaludeen, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Fulchand Shiv, Gagan Bedi, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Garry Bhatti, Garvita Garg, Gaurav Sinha, Gayathri Mukunda, Girija T, Gopi Raji, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hareesha As, Harshith Jv, Irvin Calicut, Jagdish Jatiya, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Joe M Raja, Joyce Fernandes, Jugal Borah, Kanan Bishnoi, Karishma Naik, Karthick Mariappan, Karthikeyan R, Kashyap R, Kedar Champhekar, Keerthi Priya, Ketan Turakhia, Kilson Kiragori, Kiran Bisht, Kirti Kanta Sethy, Krishnendu Das, Kuldip Topo, Lakshmikant Neve, Latha Prabhakaran, Lathika Anoth, Madhavi Babtiwale, Madhu Gupta, Mahadevan Wildlife Photographer, Mahendra Hegde, Mahesh Rathod, Mahmadanesh Khira, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manoj Kumar MK1, Manoj Pai, Mariam Ahmed, Mayuri Jani, Meha Jain, Mehala Kumar, Mitul And Vijul Singh, Mohit Mehta, Mohit Sahu, Moovendan Ramalingam, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Navya Vyas, Neelakantan K K, Nicholas Iyadurai, Niharika Pradhan, Nikhil John, Nilimesh Nath, Nilutpal Mahanta, Nishand Venugopal, Nitin Nair, Om Raut, Padma Gyalpo, Padmaja Das, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parag Kokane, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Paul Pop, Pavan Mohan, Prabhudatta Bal, Prabu Ranjit Edison, Pranad Patil, Priya Rudra Paul, Pronoy Baidya, QMR Malpe, Rachita Priyadarshini Sahoo, Rahul Pereira, Rahul Wakare, Rajender Kumar, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Prasad, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Raju Kasambe, Rajubhai Patel, Rakesh Dhurwey, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ramya Singaravelpandian, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Rasheeda Mol, Ratnesh Kumar, Ravi Kavungal, Regin Ross, Rick Karan Toor, Rofikul Islam, Rohit Tibrewal, Sabyasachi Jena, Saddam Husain, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Sambeet Puhan, Samir E, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Saranya R, Satya Sidharth Das, Saurabh Kalia, Saurav Kumar Boruah, Seema Meravi, Seema Tangadpalliwar, Shakti Bishnoi, Shamika Mahamuni, Sharad Apte, Sharad Gajbhiye, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shubham Khatana, Shuvendu Das, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Shyju S, Siddharth Biniwale, Siva T, Sourav Mandal Ðÿª½, Sova Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar D, Subha N, Subhadra Devi, Subham Prakash, Subramania Siva, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sujith Raj Salian, Sujith Ravindran, Sushant Pawar, Swati Rahangdale, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Usha Nataraj, V Gouthama, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vinod Kumar, Vishal Bhatia, Vishnu Ts, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Rawat, Vivek Saggar, Vivekananda K, Vizz Vishwanath, Vyom Vyas, Yash Gardare, Yashaswini Sahoo, Yogesh Parashar.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 240 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Saranya R who receives a of Women in the Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists by Anita Mani as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you up to date with the eBird India challenge for July?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: Pied Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus © Manoj CH/ Macaulay Library
