Last month saw a sharp uptick in birding activity in India. Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in October 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,528 (1,171)
Number of lists (all types): 15,400 (11,500)
Number of observations: 2.81 lakh (1.96 lakh)
September challenge
The challenge for October was to bird for at least 5 hours during Wildlife Week (2-8 October) and at least 12 hours overall in the month (details at the link above). Of the 1,528 eBirders in this month, and impressive 185 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhay Pandey Adil Ali ADIL NAFAR Adithya Bhat Ajay Gadikar Akash Gulalia Albin Jacob ALOK KUMAR CHANDRAKAR Amarendra Konda Aniketa Kabir ANIL KUMAR B.T. Ankit Vikrant Anshuman shah Anup Prakash Arnab Pal Arnold Goveas Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arun B Arun Prabhu Aruvi Poomali Arvind Yadav Ashwini LS Ashwin Viswanathan Atanu Modak Balwant Negi Bhaarat Vyas Bhargavi U Bhaskar pandeti B.R. Ansil CHANDRA BHUSHAN Deepa Mohan Deepti Krishnan dhanapal kondasamy DIPEN SONI Dr.Sandip Modi Emanuel george Eshwari Hiremath fermin jose Gaja mohanraj Ganesh Gore Ganeshwar S V Garima Bhatia Gireesh Kumar Gurpartap Singh Hareesha AS Hari Krishna Adepu Harsha Jayaramaiah Harshith JV Hemanth Byatroy Hemant Kirola HG Prashanthakumar Indranil Bhattacharjee Iqbal Ali Khan Jagdish Paithankar Jageshwer verma jagrut rindani JANANI L Janardhan Uppada Jaswinder Waraich Jayadev Menon Jaydev Mandal Jyoti Chawla Kalyan Ineni Karan Matalia Kartikeya Singh Kate H Kavi Nanda Krishna Murthy Krishnamurthy Vijaykumar Kshitija Gupta Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Lakshmikant Neve Mahesh Kashyap maithreyi m r Mallika Rajasekaran Mangal singh bisht Manjeet Gawas Manjula Desai Manju Sinha Manoj Kumar Vittapu mathew thekkethala Maulik Varu MAXIM RODRIGUES K Mittal Gala Mohit Aggarwal mujeeb pm Mukesh Sehgal NARAYANA NARAYANA Narendran M.M Nawal Ahuja Nayana Amin Neel Gadikar Nesrudheen PP |
Nick Baldwin Nicola Baldwin Nihar Rao Niranjana C nizar virani Padmaja Prabhu padma ramaswamy Pallavi Arora Panchapakesan Jeganathan Parmil Kumar Parvaiz Shagoo Prabhanjan Behera Pradeepa Sudhakar Prashant Kumar Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Prem Raut Priti Samode Punit Mehta Raghavendra Pai rahul narlanka Rahul Singh Rajesh Panwar Rajesh Radhakrishnan Rajneesh Suvarna Raju Kasambe Rama Neelamegam Ramesh Desai Ramesh Narula Ramesh Shenai Ram Veer raphy kallettumkara Ravi naidu Ravindra Kaushik Regin Ross renju tr Renuka Vijayaraghavan RK Balaji Rofikul Islam Roozbeh Gazdar Sachin Kumavat Sahana M Sai Shailesh Sajeev Krishnan Samakshi Tiwari Samim Akhter Samyak Kaninde sandeep channappa Sandhya Lenka sandip das Sanket Raut Santosh Kumar Thakur Satish Sasi Satyajit Mandal Selvaganesh K Shakti vel shantilal Varu Sharad Apte Shilpa Gadgil Shivaprakash Adavanne Shreeniwas Kandukuree Shubham giri Shubha Nava Softy Smith Sourav Halder Sreehari K Mohan Sreekumar Chirukandoth Srini Raman Sriram Reddy Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Subin Sudheendran subramania siva Sumit Dookia Tarachand Wanvari Taukeer Alam Lodha vaazhaikumar kumar vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vijaya Lakshmi Vinay Bhat Virag Sharma viral joshi Virender Sharma Vishal Vasu Vivek Puliyeri Vizz Vishwanath YASHWANT SHEKHAWAT Yogesh Parashar Yogish Holla |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From the names above, one was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That person is
Mittal Gala (see profile)
who receives a copy of The most perfect thing: Inside (and outside) a bird’s egg, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for November (targets based on the 11th month)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!
Congratulations…Winning Team of eBird India. 185 Nos of winner in monthly challenge might be record breaking figure.