Bird Count India

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Patch Birder’s Profile is a series focussing on Patch Birding. In this series, we highlight birders who have been faithfully visiting their patch, through this, learning the details of the birdlife and its seasonality there. 1. Please tell us about yourself: where do you live and what do you do. I believe that growing up in the Western Ghats influenced my… read more »

Patch Birder’s Profile-Shubha Nava

7 November 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

In 2018, we launched a new event called Wild Bird Day. This day-long event happens every year in October coinciding with the global birding event- October Big Day. The goal of the event is to watch and document birds in 24 hours and upload as many checklists as you can to eBird. Wild Bird Day was observed on 17 October… read more »

Wild Bird Day 2020: Stories from the field

26 October 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

We are delighted to inform you that Bird Count India (BCI) has partnered with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology to provide free access to Birds of the World for anyone within India. Just login to your existing eBird/Cornell account, or create a new eBird/Cornell account to access Birds of the World for free! Birds of the World (BoW) is an… read more »

Birds of the World is now free for birders in ...

23 October 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Birds bring us joy in many ways! While some people set up birdbaths and feeders on their window panes and balconies to attract birds, did you know that many birds also die in collisions with glass? Since 2019, Bird Count India has partnered with FLAP Canada in their citizen science campaign called Global Bird Rescue. The aim of this campaign is to document… read more »

Are buildings the new killing fields for birds?

5 October 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Birds often see the reflection of trees and the sky in glass windows, balconies and fly into them. Studies show that many million bird deaths occur annually in the United States due to such collisions. Although in India many of us have come across such incidents, the scale of this matter is not properly studied or recorded. Since 2019, Bird… read more »

Frosted, dusted, textured – Is your glass bird friendly?

4 October 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

1. Please tell us about yourself: where do you live and what do you do. My name is Mujeeb and I live in Kozhikode, Kerala. I currently work as a Training Superintendent & Principal at Govt ITI Mangalam, Palakkad, Kerala. I am an avid bird watcher with a special interest in raptors. I am also a member of the Malabar… read more »

Patch Birder’s Profile-Mujeeb PM

7 September 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself. What do you do and where do you live? Born and brought up in Coimbatore, I was a distributor of telecom services until 2011 and now I make handmade soaps on order basis. I love to travel and explore places mostly relating to wildlife and heritage. When I was 8 years old… read more »

Birder Profile: Renuka Vijayaraghavan

24 July 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Patch Birder’s Profile is a new series focussing on Patch Birding. In this series, we highlight birders who have been faithfully visiting their patch, through this, learning the details of the birdlife and its seasonality there. 1. Please tell us about yourself: where do you live and what do you do? I live in Vasant Vihar colony in Dehradun. I work… read more »

Patch Birder’s Profile- Dhananjai Mohan

10 July 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Please tell us a bit about yourself. What do you do and where do you live? My name is Renju. I live in Alappuzha, Kerala, in a place called Ezhupunna and work in a private hospital in Kochi. When and how did you get interested in birding? Since my childhood, I was interested in nature and wildlife. I seriously started bird… read more »

Birder Profile: Renju TR

15 June 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Please tell us a bit about yourself. What do you do and where do you live? I live in Chennai. I teach Zoology to undergraduates in a well-known womens’ college here. When and how did you get interested in birding? I have to thank one of my college teachers, the late Dr. Mrs. Hannah John for getting me interested enough… read more »

Birder Profile: Kalpana Jayaraman

25 May 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

In this series we highlight birders who have been faithfully visiting their patch, through this, learning the details of the birdlife and its seasonality there. 1. Please tell us about yourself: where do you live and what do you do? I spent my initial days in Mangalore and later shifted to Mysore to work in a bank. In 1997, I… read more »

Patch Birder’s Profile- Sahana

8 May 2020 Bird Count India Mittal Gala

Coimbatore City Bird Atlas (CCBA) is a citizen science project to map the distribution and abundance of birds of the Coimbatore city using field surveys between 2020 and 2022. The city was gridded and divided into thirty-seven, 3.3 km x 3.3 km cells. Each cell is a sampling unit. The cells were then further sub-divided into nine 1.1 km x… read more »

Coimbatore City Bird Atlas Feb-Mar 2020 Report

1 May 2020 Bird Count India / Projects Panchapakesan Jeganathan

Please tell us a bit about yourself. What do you do and where do you live? My name is Ezra Rynjah. I am currently a Research Affiliate with an NGO called Conservation Initiatives, wherein we work in different parts of Northeast India, collaborating with communities to implement evidence-based conservation. I am currently based in Shillong, where I also pursue projects in… read more »

Supporting listing and monitoring of birds across India