Endemic Bird Day 2017 is scheduled for 13 May 2017 and just as last year, there is a series of short quizzes to be answered in the run up to the main event. Here's the first quiz: Based on the three clues given below, can you guess which subcontinental endemic is...
It's May and with most of the winter migrants back in their breeding grounds, it is the best time to focus on birds resident in the country. As every year, Endemic Bird Day 2017 is all about celebrating and documenting the birds endemic to the Indian subcontinent....
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We are delighted to announce a new kind of birding challenge this month -- to fill birding gaps. The understanding of Indian avifauna is limited by the lack of knowledge of distribution and seasonality of Indian birds. This is also reflected on eBird, where large...
Tomorrow (Saturday 14 May) is Endemic Bird Day. You've seen the list of all of our endemics, heard some interesting facts about some, including Spotted Creeper, Painted Sandgrouse and Indian Pitta, and done the quizzes, now all that is required is to go birding on...
Congratulations to everyone who answered any of the Endemic Bird Day quizzes correctly, and a big thank you to everyone who took part and made the quiz more interesting! The answers to the last quiz of the series are: Species A: Indian Robin Species B: Indian...
In the run-up to the main event in May - the Endemic Bird Day, the Endemic Bird Quizzes were put up as a series of 10 quizzes about birds endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. Congratulations to the 26 people who got the right answers to Quiz 9: Abhijeet Sawant,...
We are inching closer to the big date with Endemic Bird Day 2016 on 14 May 2016. Do not forget to go birding on the day and look for residents and endemics around your birding patch or wherever you are! You can also check out our FB event page. Congratulations to...
We received 27 correct entries for Quiz 7! The answers, as many of you guessed, were: Species A: White-cheeked Barbet Species B: Brown-headed Barbet Congratulations to every one who managed the right answers! Abhijeet Sawant, Aditya Nayak, Amitayu Dey, Ankit...
17 correct answers were received for Quiz 5! The species referred to in the quiz were: Species A: Rufous-vented Prinia (Prinia burnesii) Species B: Swamp Prinia (Prinia cinerascens) The two are sister species which were considered conspecific and clubbed...
It's time for Quiz 6! But first, we are pleased to announce that 18 people out there managed to get the right answers for Quiz 5. With each quiz, we run out of endemics to pick from and with each day, we get closer to the Endemic Bird Day 2016. If you're on...
It's time for Quiz 5 and our quiz moves on as the Endemic Bird Day inches closer! But before that, here are the answers for Quiz 4. As many of you guessed, the genus represented is Turdoides. The species in the maps are: Species A - Common Babbler Species B -...