World Wildlife Fund-India (WWF-India) has initiated a vulture estimation program across India. This is the first year of this program where citizen birders,...
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Bird Count India is now on YouTube!!
Whether you’re just getting started as an eBirder or an experienced eBirder looking to help those who are new to eBirding, the Bird Count India YouTube...
eBird India Taxonomy 2021- Summary
The eBird/Clements world checklist is now updated and the entire list will reflect in your eBird account. Among these updates are species splits and lumps;...
Patch Monitoring Project—Systematic Bird Monitoring
Suhel Quader made an eBird checklist almost every school day, from January 2014 to December 2019, while he walked his children to their bus stop. He analysed...
1 million photos & 1 million lists
In the last ten years, the eBird community in India has grown tremendously. One of the landmark birding events in the country, the Great Backyard Bird Count...
Great Backyard Bird Count 2021- Results
GBBC 2021 was perhaps the most memorable Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) to date in India!
Indian Skimmer Count
After the successful first phase of the Indian Skimmer Count (conducted on 19-20 Dec 2020), the Bombay Natural History Society in association with Bird Count...
Birds of the World is now free for birders in India!
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...
Fifty thousand to Five hundred thousand!!
From 50,000 photographs and 2000 sound recordings in 2016, we today have crossed an astonishing number of 5,00,000 photographs and 18, 000 bird sounds in...
Bird Monitoring and eBird workshops in West Bengal
West Bengal has an amazingly diverse landscape, from the high peaks of the Himalayas in the north, to the coastal regions in the south, and with the Gangetic...
eBird India taxonomy 2019
Every year in August the bird taxonomy across the world gets updated based on eBird/Clements checklist. Birders in India can heave a sigh of relief as the...
Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop June – 2019
For the sixth year in succession, a two day workshop on Bird Monitoring in Kerala was held at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, College of Forestry, Kerala...