Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in April by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 5,095 (6,462)
Number of observations: 7.30 lakhs (10.32 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 43,168 (59,882)
Number of species: 1,086 (1,110)
Number of unique lists with media: 4,380 (5,089)
The challenge for April was to upload 15 or more rated photos or audio recordings to your checklists. A total of 149 eBirders successfully met this target! (upated on 31 May 2024).
Abhijeet Avate, Abhinand C, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Afsar Nayakkan, Ajay Sarvagnam, Amrit Raha, Amritendu Mallick, Anand Birdlife, Anand Singh, Anand T, Angeline Mano M, Aniruddha Joshi, Ansar Ahmad Bhat, Anuj Saikia, Arulvelan Thillainayagam, Arun Prabhu, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Avinash Singh, Ayaan S, Baharuddin Sk, Baidurya Chakrabarti, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhaskar Mandal, Bijoy Venugopal, Birder Baba, Chaiti Banerjee, Chirag Munje, Chitra Ingole, Debojyoti Chakraborty, Dipankar Dev, Dr Bipasha David, Elias Thomas, Faisal Fasaludeen, Garima Bhatia, Gaurav Diwan, Giri Tirumale, Girish Chhatpar, Gopala Krishna Baliga, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Irvin Calicut, Isheta Divya, Jageshwer Verma, James Moore (Maryland), Jayadev Menon, Jim Panwar, Joe M Raja, John Daniel, Kalyan Gantait, Kanwal Preet Singh, Kaushik Sarkar, Krishnendu Das, Lakshmikant Neve, Lokesh Lakhorkar, Madhavi Babtiwale, Madhu Gupta, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manjunath Desai, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Martin Mau, Mathew Thekkethala, Mohan Raj K., Munish Gowda, Munshi Abul Barakat, Murari Varma, Naushad Theba, Neenad Abhang, Neeraja V, Padma Gyalpo, Pallab Saikia, Pankaj Gupta, Parmil Kumar, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Polly Kalamassery, Poorna Parvathala, Prachee J, Pradeep Dobhal, Praveen Es, Praveen J, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Prof Chandan Singh Dalawat, Pronoy Baidya, Punit Mehta, Rahul Bhandari, Rahul Pereira, Rahul Wakare, Rajaneesh Ghadi, Rajesh Gopalan, Rajkumar Das, Rajkumar Kalaiyar, Rama Neelamegam, Ramesh Shenai, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Ranjeet Singh, Ravi Jesudas, Rejaul Karim, Reshma Tadvi, Rishab Ghosh, Rupashree Shivacharada, Sahana M, Samanvitha Rao, Samim Akhter, Samish Dhongle, Sandip Das, Sanjana Kajawe, Sanjay Gupta, Sanjay Malik, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Seema Tangadpalliwar, Shalmali Nalawade, Shamik Sathe, Sharad Apte, Shashidhar Joshi, Shaunak Deshpande, Sheikh Riyaz, Sheila Mathai, Shekar Vishvanath, Shilpa Gadgil, Shubham Giri, Shuvendu Das, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siva T, Sonal Teotia, Sourav Mandal, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Srinidhi Kannan, Srushti Bokil, Steffin Babu, Subhadra Devi, Subramania Siva, Sujith S, Suman Paul, Swarup Saha, Tejas Natu, Tina Shangloo, Tuk Tuk, Uma Vaijnath, V Sitaram, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikram S, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vipin Paul, Waseem Bhat.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 149 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Madhavi Babtiwale, who receives a signed copy 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 doing your best to match the target for May?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2024!
Header Image: Ashy Prinia Prinia socialis © Neeraja V/ Macaulay Library
