As the winter approaches, passage and winter migrants are coming our way (see What’s on in September). In concert with this, birding activity across the country is ramping up, and this is apparent from the break-up of eBirding in India in August (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 709 (717)
Number of lists (all types): 9,562 (6,934)
Number of lists (complete, 15min or longer): 8,525 (6,082)
Number of observations: 1.48 lakh (1.11 lakh)
The challenge for August was to upload no-X, complete birdlists of at least 15-minute duration from at least 25 separate days of the month. Of the 709 eBirders in August, 16 met or exceeded the target for the month. They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
Ajay Gadikar
George P J
Govind Girija
Jayadev Menon
Jaydev Mandal
Komal Agrawal
Lakshmikant Neve
Manju Sinha
Namassivayan Lakshmanan
Prashanth N S
Premchand Reghuvaran
Shanmugam Kalidass
Siva T
Suhel Quader
Vidhya Sundar
Vinay Nadig
Many congratulations to all of them!
One person from these 16 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift. That person is George P J who receives a copy of The homing instinct: meaning and mystery in animal migration by Bernd Heinrich.
Here is the full list of all 709 eBirders from India in August 2016:
Aaditya S Kumar, Aarti Phatarphekar, Aashutosha Lele, Abdul Raheem Munderi, abha manohark, Abhijeet Avate, Abhijeet Sawant, abhijith a.p.c, Abhijith surendran, Abhimanyu Lele, Abhinav R, Abhirami C, Abhirami M Jayakumar, Abhiram Sankar, Abhirup Khara, Abhishek Bhargava, Abhishek Chintamani, abhishek gopal, Abhishek Gulshan, Abhishek Jamalabad, Abhishek Maiya, abhishek ravindra, Abhishek Shankar, Abinesan S, Able Lawrence, Adesh Shivkar, ADHEENA XAVIER, Adhithyan NK, Adithya Bhat, Aditya Banerjee, Aditya Ghate, Adnan Raja, Afshan Husain, Aishanya Sarma, Ajay Gadikar, Ajinkya Supekar, Ajith Kumar, AJU RAJU, Akash Gulalia, AKSHAY LONARE, Akshay Surendra, Alan Knue, Albin Jacob, AM AMSA, Aman Gujar, Amarendra Konda, AMBIKA NANOTH, Ambika Pradhan, Amisha Agarwal, Amish Mulmi, Amith Kumar, Amol Bapat, Amol Lopes, Amruta Varshini, Anand Sundaram, Ananthu P, Andrea Reany, Andy Balinsky, Andy Johnson, Aneesh Sasidevan, Angel Joy, Aniruddha Bade, Aniruddha Ghosh, anisha jayadevan, Anish Aravind, Anish Mohan Thampi, Anjali J, anjana hari, Anjana Nair, Anjitha Devarajan, Anoop CR, anoopkumar podavoor, Anoop palode SS, Anup Chavda, Anuradha Krishnan, Anurag Chandak, Aparajita Datta, APARNA NEVE, APITHA NAMASSIVAYAN, Appavu Pavendhan, Aravind AM, Aravind Amirtharaj, Archana Nair, Arijit Mondal, Arjun Dev , Arjun Kannan, Arnab Pal, Arnav Anish, Arnold Goveas, Arshia Singh, Arun Bhaskaran, Arun C.G, Arun Chikkamarappa, Arun Kumar Mathivaanan, arun lal, Arun M K Bharos, ARUN PRABHU, Arun Singh, Arun Varghese, Arya Vinod, Ashish Babre, Ashish Bhatt, Ashish GB, Ashis Kumar Pradhan, Ashlesha Pandit, Ashlin Michael , Ashutosh Singh, Ashwin Bhat, Ashwini Kumar Malle, ashwin mohan, Ashwin Viswanathan, Ashwin Warudkar, ASLAM MOHAMMED, Aswin Nisanth, Augustin Joseph, Avik Dutta, Avishkar Munje, Avishna Arappil, AWC Pathanamthitta, Ayush Ankit, Babasaheb Jawale, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, Balaji P B, balakrishnan vc, Balbir Arora, Balwant Negi, Bhagyarekha Deshpande, Bhanu Sridharan, BHARATI CHATURVEDI, Bhaskar pandeti, Bhavani Ramamohan , Biang Syiem, bijumon ke, Biju PB, Biju PS, BIJU THENKUDI, Bimalnath Punnassery, Binod Borah, BINU SREELAKAM, Bird Atlas Kannur, Bird Atlas Palakkad, Bird Atlas Thrissur, Bird Atlas Trivandrum, Bird Snappers, Biswanath Mondal, Biswapriya Rahut, B.R. Ansil, Calicut Bird Club, Chagsaa odonjavkhlan, CHANDRA BHUSHAN, Chandra Sekhar Bandi, charles naveen, Charlotte Chang, Chayant Gonsalves, Cheran Jagadeesan, chetan harikishandas joshi, Chetna Sharma, Chris Bowden, Cinchona GHS(Group account), C K SMITHA, CNS Nature, Cristeena TA Cristeena TA, Dakshina Sudhir, Damodaran Pallath, Danival santhosh, david stanton, Dayani Chakravarthy, Deepa Chandran, Deepa Javdekar, Deepak Balasubramanian, deepak dhakad , Deepa Mohan, denzil britto, Dhananjai Mohan, Dhaval Vargiya, dhiren malani, Dhruba Saikia, Diego Gonzalez Quieju, Dilip K G, Dinesh kumar, Dinesh Pundir, Divya Mudappa, Douglas Ball, Dr George P J, Dr. Jayant Wadatkar, Dr. Krishna kumar, Dr Sumit Chakrabarti, Dr. Utkarsh Betodkar, EKM Bird Atlas, Elias Rowther B., Elizabeth Jojy, Esha Munshi, Ezhupunna Birders, Fermin Jose, Gaja mohanraj, Ganesh Raghunathan, Ganesh R Mandavkar, Ganeshwar S V, Garima Bhatia, Gaurang Bagda, Gaurav Nalkur, gaurav pangtey, Gautam Allamsetty, Gautam Surya, Gaythri and Mansur Nature Photography, Geeta Viswanathan, Geetha Venkataraman, Gireesh Pallikkara, Girish Jathar, GirishMohan P K, Gokul Krishna, gokul vadivel, Gopalakrishna R, Gopal Khanal, GOVIND GIRIJA, G Parameswaran, Hakimuddin F Saify, hardik kalavadiya, HariAsha Chakkarakkal, Harikrishnan S, hari kumar, HARI MAVELIKARA, Harish Chandra, Harish NN, Haritha Mohan, HARSHADA GAUNS, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshavardhan Jamakhandi, Harshith JV, Harshit Singh, HARSHJEET BAL, Harshul Thareja, Hashiq AH, Hemanth Byatroy, Hemant Kirola, hemant kumar, Hemanya Radadia, Hillblooms School, Hopeland P, Humayun Taher, imran khan, Indira Srinivasan, Induchoodan A Sreedharan, Ishika Ramakrishna, Jadeswamy Madaiah, Jafer Palot, Jaichand Johnson, Jameela Parampatt, Janhvi Vyas, Jaswinder Waraich, Jayadev Menon, Jayan Thomas, Jaydev Mandal, Jeffin John, Jesse Ross, Jeswin Joseph, jishnu kizhakkillam, jithesh pai, Job Joseph, Joby Joseph, John Christo, John Longhenry, jolly kv, JOSE RANI BABU, joshua Dsilva, joydip mukherjee, juee khopkar, JUGAL PATEL, Justus Joshua, Jyothish Nelson, Kadambari Devarajan, Kalaimani Ayuthavel , Kalyan Ramakrishna Chowdary Vundavalli, Kalyan Varma, Kanwar B Singh , Karthikeyan G B, Karthikeyan Ponnambalamoorthy, KARTHIK KV, Kashyap R, Kaustubh Rau, Kavin SG, Khushboo ., Kingsley David, Kiran Purandare, Kiran S Kumar, Kiron Vijay, Kirsten Abildskov, Kishorekumar Panaganti, Kishor Mankar, Komal Agrawal, Kranthi Kiran, Kranti Singh, Krishna Anujan, Krishna Deepak, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishna Murthy, Krishnamurthy Vijaykumar, K.Sravan Kumar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Kumar RR, Lakshmikant Neve, Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan, Lawrence Mathappan, Lekshmi Jayakumar, Lekshmi R, Leonard Rebello, lingesh kalingarayar, Loukika Neve, mabel menezes, Madhura Niphadkar, Madhurima Das, madhushri mudke, Magesh Ram, Mahathi Narayanaswamy, Mahesh madhu, Malik Fasil Madala, Mallika Rajasekaran, Manan Singh Mahadev, manasa krishna, Mandar Bhagat, Mangesh Prabhulkar, Mangirish Dharwadkar, Manidip Mandal, Manju Sinha, Manohara Kamath, manoj a, manoj p g, Manu Mengi, Marissa Menezes, Marvelyn Dias, Maulik Varu, MAXIM RODRIGUES K, Mayukh Dey, Md Shafi, Mike Prince, Milind Ganatra, Miraj Hussain, Misha Bansal, mohammad sulaiman, mohammed hirash, Mohandas G, Mohit Aggarwal, Mohith Shenoy, Mohit Mehta, Monica Kaushik, Monika Gandhi, Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, mridul anand, MS Raghunath, mujeeb pm, Mukesh Sehgal, Mukundan Kizhakkemadham, MUNEER THOLPETTY, Murtuza Hussain Abrar, Muthu Narayanan, Mystic Wild, Nagappan R, Nagaraju Dubare, Nagendra Nayak, Naidu Kumpatla, NALINI RAMAN, namassivayan lakshmanan, Nandhakumar Radhakrishnan, Nandini Rajamani , NARESH G, Naresh Vadrevu, Navaneeth nair, Naveenlal P, Naveen Prakash , Navya P K, Navya r, Neeraj Amarnani, Neha Waikar, Neil Broekhuizen, Nihar Madkaiker, Niketan Kasare, Nikhil Patwardhan, Nilesh KK, Ninad Raote, Niranjan A, Niranjana C, NIRJHAR Banerjee , Nisanth Raveendran, Nisha Bhakat, Nisha Bhakat, nishith Kumar, Nitin Kapoor, Nitin Prabhakar, Nitin Tomer, Omkar Dharwadkar, omkar naik, Padmanabhan Natarajan, Padmanav Kundu, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, PANKAJ GUPTA, PANKAJ KOPARDE, Pankaj Lad, Pankaj Sharma, paresh gosavi, Parikshit Khisty, PARVATHY AS, Pavan Ramachandra, Pawan Dhall, Payal Mehta, P. B. Samkumar, Peter Hosner, Piper Weldy, Polly Poulose, pooja pawar, POORNIMA VISWANATHAN, PRABHAKARAN.PV PRABHAKARAN.PV, Prabhat Kumar, PRADEEP KM, PRADEEP KUMAR V B, Pradheep J, Prakash G, Pramod Venkatesh murthy , Pranav Balasubramanian, Prasanna Gautam, Prasanna Parab, Prasath Selvaraj, Prashanth N S, Prashant Kumar, Prashant Tewari, prasob enose, Prathamesh Desai, Praveen es, Praveen Eshwarappa, Praveen J, praveen shenoy, Premchand Reghuvaran, Prem Prakash Garg, Prithivi Raj S, Priyanka Bhagyavant, priyanka ss, Pronoy Baidya, Punit Mehta, Pushkar Chaubal, Pushkar Kulkarni, Qazi Hammad Mueen Qari, Raghu Nathan, Raghurama Hegde, Rahul Kumar, rahul narlanka, Rahul Paranjape, Rahul Wakare, Rajaneesh Ghadi, Rajan KC, Rajarajan V, Rajeesh Leo, Rajeev Ranjan, Rajendra Gadgil, Rajendran. T.M., Rajesh Balakrishnan, Rajesh Kumar Reddy, Rajesh Panwar, Rajesh Prasad, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Rajneesh Suvarna, Raju Kasambe, Raju Sankaran, Rama Neelamegam, Ramanjinaiah v Siddu, Raman Kumar, Ramesh kumar Selvaraj, Ramesh M, Ramesh Shenai, Ramesh Zarmekar, Ramit Singal, Ram Vikas, raphy kallettumkara, Rasikapriyaa Sriramamurthy , Rathish RL, Raveendran Natarajan, ravi pn, Ravi Shihurkar, REEF RCOEM, Regin George, Rejitha V, renju tr, renuka Vijayaraghavan, Ribish Thomas, Rimple Saxena, Rinto Abraham, Rishabh Birla, Ritesh Dighe, Ritesh Sharma, Rithika Fernandes, Riyan Konkath, Robert Riedl, Rohak Vaghode, Rohan Chakravarty, Rohit Charpe, Rohit Hirway, Rohith Srinivasan, Rohit Mudadi, ROJA ROY P, Ronit Dutta, ronny augustine, Roshnath R, Rudraksha Chodankar, Ruma Sinha, Rustom Basumatary, Rutuja Kukade , Ryan Rodrigues, sabeer ali, Sachin Chandran, SACHIN KRISHNA M V, Sachin Main, Sahana M, sahil salim, sahithya selvaraj, sajin seethi, Sajith Komath , sakthi manickam, sakthi pp, Samad Kottur, Samyukth Sridharan, Sandeep Augustine, Sandeep Krishna Das, Sandhya Bajaj, Sandhya Lenka, SANDIPAN GHOSH, sandip bhaumik, Sanjay Karanth, Sanjay Malik, Sanjeev Goyal, Sanjiv Khanna, sanju majumder, Sanket Raut, Santharam V, santhosh kumar, santosh thakur, Saptarshi Ghosh, Sarath Chandran, saravanan ajith, Sarman Ratiya , Sashi Kumar, sasidharan manekkara, Satheesan K V, Satheesh Muthu Gopal Balasubramanian, Sathyan Meppayur, satish siwatch, Sat Pal Dhiman, Satypal Singh, Saurabh Sawant, Selvaganesh K, Selvarajan V, Shafeeq Wilson, Shah Jahan, Shailee Shah, Shameena S, Shanmugam Kalidass, Shanmugarajan G, Shanmukharaja Muroor, Shantanu Mukherjee, shantilal Varu, Sharad Agrawal, Sharang Satish, SHARATH G.M., Shashank dalvi, sheeba nanjan, shishir shendokar, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shivashankar Manjunatha, Shivi Mishra, Shreyan M L, Shrikanth nayak, Shriranjani L . Iyer, shruti nema, Shubham Gautam, Shubha Nava, Shwetha Bharathi, Siddhesh Surve, Sivadas Chettur, Sivakumar AK, Sivakumar R, Sivakumar SS, Sivakumar Swaminathan, sivanandan ds, Sivasankar Balakumar, Sivashankar Ramachandran, Siva T, Siyad A Karim , Sneha Gupta, Snehasis Sinha, Soham Sinha, Soma Ateesh, Somashekhar Kulkarni, Somraj Gupta, Soni Nambiar, SOORAJ NARAYANAN, soumil karandikar, Soumya Shubhra Nag, Sovan Gupta, S R Aamir, Sreekeerthana G, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar E R, sreekumar mahe, Sreelakshmi G, Srikaanth Sekar, Srikanth Bhamidipati, Srinivasa Shenoy, Srinivas Daripineni, Sriram Reddy, Srishti Yadav, S S Cheema, SS prasanth, Stanzin Namgail, steffin babu, Steve Redpath, Subbu Subramanya, Subhajit Chaudhuri, Subhashini Sivasubramanian, Subin Sudheendran, Subramanian B, Subramanian Sankar, Subramniam Venkatramani, sudeep r, sudhakaran kk, Sudhir Moorti, Sugandha Gosavi, Suhel Quader, Sujith soori, Sujith V Gopalan, Sumanta Pramanick, Sumedh Jog, Sumesh b, sumi Panniannur, Sumit Sehrawat, Sundar Palanivelu, sunil kumar, sunil rai, Suraj Suryavanshi , Surendhar Boobalan, Suresh Jones, suresh sharma, Surya Prakash, susanth madapurakkal, Susobhan Banerjee, sutirtha lahiri, Swansy Afonso, Swapnil Wankhede, Swathi Bhat, Swati Sidhu, Swetashree Purohit, SYAMILI MANOJ, syed ateeq, Syed Mustahsen, Syed Muzamil, Taksh Sangwan, Tanmay Jain, Tanya Seshadri, Tapas Misra, Tara Rajendran, Tarun Aditya Subramaniam, Tarun Menon, Taukeer Alam Lodha, Thejaswi Shivanand, TheNatureTrust (GroupAccount), The Pollachi Papyrus, Thomas Job, Trilok Rana, T R Shankar Raman, Udaya Kumar Balasubramanian, unmesh paranjape, Vaibhav Saigal, Vaidehi Gunjal, vaisakh george, Vaishnavi Pote, varghese george, Varun Kher, Vedant Jasu, Velsina Rodrigues, Venkatesh R, Venugopalan R, Vidhya Sundar, Vidyadhar A, Vidyasagar Hariharan, Vignesh Menon, Vijaya Lakshmi, vijayaraghavan m, Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, Vinay Bharadwaj, Vinay Nadig, Vineeth Kumar C M, Vineeth Viswanath, Vinod Venugopal, Viraj Malani, viral joshi, Viral Pankaj, vishnudas ck, Vishnupriyan Kartha, Vishnupriya S, Vivek Puliyeri, vivek r, Vivek Rawat, Vridhi R, vrinda lath, VV Robin, Wayanad Atlas, Wesley Rajaleelan, Yadu .., Yogesh Badri, Yogesh Parashar, Yogish Holla, Yousaf olavilam, Zareef Khan Lodha
Are you doing your best to match the target for September (6 birdlists per week)? And there is also a set of yearlong challenges for 2016 to bird towards!
Header Image: Common Sandpiper, by Aravind Amirtharaj/ Macaulay Library from this birdlist.
