Birding is (almost?) at its peak in January. Here is the break-up of eBirding in India in Jan 2018 (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 1,476 (1,792)
Number of lists (all types): 16,500 (25,500)
Number of observations: 3.37 lakh (4.59 lakh)
January challenge
The challenge for January was to upload Asian Waterbird Counts from at least three wetlands and submit the eBird list IDs (plus additional information on the AWC google form (see the link above for details). Of the 1,792 eBirders in this month, 30 met or exceeded this target! They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
| Able Lawrence Ajay Gadikar Anup Prakash Aravind Amirtharaj Arun B Deepti Krishnan Divya Subramani Ganeshwar SV Guhan Sundar Harshith JV Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jaydev Mandal Kishore Kumaran S krunal trivedi |
Lakshmikant Neve Manjeet Kaur Bal Prakash G Pranjal Mahananda Ramit Singal Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan Selvaraj Rangasamy Somoyita sur Sreekumar Chirukandoth subramania siva Suhel Quader VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vinay Bhat |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
One name from these 30 was selected using a computer-generated random number. That name is
Manjeet Kaur Bal (plus birder profile here)
who receives a copy of Bird Sense: What It’s Like to be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead as a small gift in appreciation.
Sarus Crane by Manjeet Kaur Bal/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab. From this checklist.
Are you doing your best to match the target for February (Twenty20 lists during and outside the GBBC)? And there are a whole set of new yearlong challenges for 2018!
Header Image: Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula © Vivek Saggar/ Macaulay Library
