July’s monthly challenge was all about sharing the joy of birding with fellow birders and friends. But now, resident birds should be about to finish nesting, the so-called ‘lean’ birding period is slowly coming to an end, and signs of returning migrants are already evident from all across the country. August marks the beginning of the passage migration (in variable amounts) across the country and birding regularly would help in noticing changes in birdlife in your region.
The challenge for August is to upload no-X, complete birdlists of at least 15 minutes duration, from at least 25 different days of the month.
This kind of challenge is to not only encourage us to bird more regularly but also to look for birds just about anywhere – from a balcony at home, during a break from work, at a bus stop, etc – and at all times!
Such birding is also more fun! It ensures that we keep our eyes and ears always on alert for the sights and sounds of birds. It also challenges and enhances our skills as birders – can we tell apart our resident bulbuls, doves or mynas just by sound? Or do we know what birds are found in the urban areas we frequent?
Please upload all your lists by 5 September so that we can announce the results the next day.
Here are the general rules of our monthly challenges. Do check out the yearlong challenges as well! You can keep track of fresh lists coming in from India at this page.
You can also take part in the global eBirder of the Month challenge!
Important. if you are new to eBird, please read this description first, and do take a look at the Beginner’s Guide.
Header Image: Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris © Martin Flack/ Macaulay Library/ IBC
Global eBirder of the month Challange is very difficult since every checklist required 3 photographs & one audio for each Checklist.Monsoon is here in India.Difficult to achieve Challange during Rains.
otherside eBird india requires 25 checklists
Both are different challanges ?
Hello Sir — yes both are challenging! But at least the India challenge should be reachable, since all that’s needed is 15 minutes per day — at a balcony or bus-stop, anywhere outside!
BOTH ARE DIFFERENT OR NOT?
They are two separate challenges. The global one is run by eBird central; the Indian one is run by Bird Count India.
25 days! No chance 😀
15 min each day from your balcony/garden/roadside/bus-stop?
We Have Call & sound videoes but these videoes cannot uplod in your account .please guide us how to upload these videoes. My camera is nikon P 900. we have no other recorder or smaratphone
Rajendra Gadgil
Sir, thanks for this. At the moment, you can upload photos and audio recordings through simple drag-and-drop. Currently, this procedure cannot be used for videos, unfortunately. Videos can be uploaded to Youtube or Vimeo, and then you can generate an embed code that can be used to embed the video recording into your eBird checklist as described here (please scroll down to ‘Sound and Video’). Please let us know if we can be of any further help.
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Completed August challenge.
It was tough uploading and maintaining data in notebook but it was also so much fun.
I understood that birding can be done anytime anywhere.
Excellent to hear! Have you tried using the eBird app? It can make recording and uploading much easier.
http://ebird.org/content/india/news/ebird-for-android/