The Patch Monitoring Project began in July 2021 with the objective to systematically monitor birds in local birding patches. Monitoring such patches in the...
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Fantastic Birds and Where to Find Them
In this post, we bring you some of our resident bird species that are so rare that the number of recent reports has trickled down to a handful - in some cases...
Introducing Five New Languages in eBird
We are delighted to inform you that eBird has introduced about 100 bird names in five new south Asian languages- Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, and...
Patch Monitoring Project leaderboard coming soon!
The Patch Monitoring Project began in July 2021 with the objective to systematically monitor birds in local birding patches. Monitoring such patches in the...
Oriental Bird Images now in eBird
Last week, more than one lakh images of Indian birds from Oriental Bird Images (OBI) were migrated to Macaulay Library (ML) and eBird. OBI contributors who...
WWF-India’s Vulture Estimation Program
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,...
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...