August is still a rainy month in many places in India, and even through some early migrants have started appearing, we still don’t see the uptick in birding that comes with winter. Our appreciation for the birders who are out and about in this season — your documentation of birds is very valuable! Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in August 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,317 (1,320)
Number of lists (all types): 11,800 (11,600)
Number of observations: 1.66 lakh (1.69 lakh)
August challenge
The challenge for August was to upload at least 20 eligible through the month, two of which are from previously unvisited hotspots (details at the link above). Of the 1,317 eBirders in this month, 59 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| AM AMSA Angeline Mano Aravind AM Aromal Senan Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arunkumar S arun lal Arvind Yadav Avinash Aviz Baseer Baniya Charlie Thomas Chitra Shanker Claudia Pinheiro Deepti Krishnan dhanapal kondasamy Dhruba Saikia Elavarasan M GOVIND GIRIJA Hareesha AS Hemant Ware Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jaydev Mandal Jishnu Narayanan JOE M RAJA KARTHIKEYAN R Lakshmikant Neve Lathika K K Manoj Karingamadathil Mittal Gala |
Mohammed Hirash Navaneeth Sini George Nosherwan Sethna Panchapakesan Jeganathan Paul Bourdin Rahul Nair Rahul Singh Ramesh Desai Renju TR Saee Gundawar Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan Selvaganesh K Sheena S shiju Babu Sreehari K Mohan Sreekumar Chirukandoth Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Sujeesh P S ~ V I S H N U S A N K A R Upasana Sharma vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Swaminathan Vijaya Lakshmi Vineith Malabaricus Vivek Sudhakaran Yogesh Vamdev |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From these 59 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is
Deepti Krishnan
who receives a copy of How to be a (bad) birdwatcher, by Simon Barnes, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for September (5 eligible lists every week)? And there is also the set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
