In December, we'll focus on both birding effort as well as media uploads.
Bird Count India
Uttar Pradesh is dominated by crowded urban centres and intense agriculture, typically not a good recipe for large wetland birds. Yet cranes in Uttar Pradesh are flourishing, not despite the people — but because of the people.
In A Crowded State, Farmers And Sarus Cranes Coexist
For the fifth year in succession, a one day workshop on Bird Monitoring in Kerala was held at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur on 10 June 2018. About 70 birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts, representing various organisations in Kerala participated in the workshop. Participants represented Cochin Natural History Society (CNHS), Malabar Natural History Society (MNHS),… read more »
Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop June 2018
5 The diverse birdlife and habitats of North-India are tied together in intricate ways. This is a guest article by Pritam Baruah.
Bird Habitats of North East India
3 GBBC 2018 summary results Campus Bird Count 2018 summary results A large number of birders uploaded lists to the eBird India platform during this year’s GBBC and CBC. This included several regular and experienced birders, birders who organized events and counts in their regions, state coordinators who were instrumental in ensuring the counts went off smoothly and several participants who experienced birdwatching… read more »
GBBC 2018: Stories from the Field
Dadra and Nagar Haveli is a largely unexplored and underbirded region. Saswat Mishra writes about this union territory, which is home to several species that are found in the Western Ghats.
Birding in Dadra and Nagar Haveli
2017 was the biggest year yet for Bird Count India since it's inception in 2014.
2017 – a quick review
4 Merlin is coming to India... but to launch it successfully, multiple images of Indian birds are needed to train the app to identify them.
Calling all photographers!
The Bird Count India partnership (www.birdcount.in) seeks applications for the post of Programme Coordinator.
Work at Bird Count India
A New Year, and so many places to go and birds to see and admire. What can we look forward to in documenting the birds of our beautiful country?
Welcome to 2018!
On 25 November 2017, some eBirders from the city organized a meet-up to get birders together under one roof with the aims of discussing eBird, how to use it more productively, and to ensure that the growth of eBird in Delhi is sustained over the coming years.
Delhi eBirders’ Meet-up: 25 November 2017
Here is the second in our series of occasional bird links (see earlier post here) – we list some interesting articles from India and around the world. Do write in if you have a suggestion: skimmer@birdcount.in Ever been confused by changing bird names, definition of species, splitting and lumping of species, and all the controversies behind it? Take a look at… read more »
Bird links 24Nov17
6 By P. Jeganathan Birders of yesteryear had field notebooks and pens or pencils to write down what they saw in the field. Some of them took copious notes and published their sightings in scientific journals and trip reports. Starting from early 2014, the online bird-listing portal eBird became popular among Indian birders. Since then eBird has picked up slowly but… read more »
One million bird records from Tamil Nadu
3 Cross-posted from http://ebird.org/content/india/news/using-ebird-india-portal/ If you are an eBirder from India, please ensure that your lists are tagged as part of the eBird India portal, and you will be helping India meet its international biodiversity commitments. How so? Read on to find out! What is the eBird India portal? The eBird India portal was launched on 15 August 2015. The India… read more »
Using eBird through the India portal
In this new series, we will feature interesting articles about birds from India and around the world. Do write in if you have a suggestion: skimmer@birdcount.in Much to learn, appreciate and admire about this article on the Beauty and Biology of Egg Colour. And while we’re on the topic of bird eggs, do take a look at this wonderful visualization… read more »
Bird links 22Jul17
For the fourth year in succession, a one day workshop on Bird Monitoring in Kerala was held at Centre for Wildlife Studies, College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur on 12 June 2017 . About 100 birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts, representing various organisations in Kerala participated in the workshop. Participants from Kerala represented Cochin Natural History Society (CNHS), Malabar Natural… read more »
Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop June 2017
3 Towards the end of 2015, eBird introduced the Media Upload option to users across the world. This gave images and audio associated with eBird checklists a permanent home in the Macaulay Library’s database. A little while back, the total media uploaded to eBird from India crossed the 100,000 mark. This is a significant milestone and we’ve come a long way in… read more »
100,000 media and 300,000 checklists
Answer to EBD Quiz 5