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: 6,075 (7,324)
Number of observations: 8.93 lakhs (12.52 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 54,400 (72,942)
Number of species: 1,109 (1,119)
Number of unique lists with media: 5,633 (7,135)
The challenge for April was to upload a minimum of 20 checklists, with audio (rated) of at least 5 species. A total of 81 eBirders successfully met this target! (Updated on 9 June 2025).
Congratulations to all these birders!
Ains Priestman, Ajay Sarvagnam, Amrit Raha, Anand Birdlife, Anand Singh, Anish Bera, Anurupa Shil, Aravind AM, Arun Singh, Ashit Parida, Ashraf Anuar Zaini, Asim Giri, Ayaan S, Baharuddin Sk, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhaskar Mandal & Lakshmi Chatterjee, Biplab Banerjee, Brian Elliott, Chandu A, Chirag Munje, Christian Engel, Dhruva Punde, Dipankar Dev, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Gopi Raji, H Nambiar, Hariharan T V, Jayadev Menon, Kedar Champhekar, Kilson Kiragori, Kit Britten, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Lakshmikant Neve, Madhavi Babtiwale, Maggie Geer, Mahendra Hegde, Mahmadanesh Khira, Manjunath Prabhu, Munish Gowda, Neeraja V, Om Raut, Padma Gyalpo, Parmil Kumar, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Pranad Patil, Pulakeswar Basumatary, Rahul Wakare, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Ramesh Shenai, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Ranjeet Singh, Regin Ross, Rejaul Karim, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sandip Das, Sanjiv Khanna, Satya Sidharth Das, Shamika Mahamuni, Sharad Apte, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shilpa Gadgil, Shubham Giri, Shuvendu Das, Soubhagya Mohanty, Sourav Mandal, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Subha N, Suman Biswas, Sumanth Kerur, Trivedi Gvn, Tuk Tuk, Uma Vaijnath, Vaibhav Patil, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Sudhakaran.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 81names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Neeraja V who receives a 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 up to date with the eBird India challenge for May?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: Rufous-winged Fulvetta Schoeniparus castaneceps © Manjula Desai / Macaulay Library
