14 May 2022, was celebrated as Endemic Bird Day in India. More than 1,000 birders went out to look for endemic (and other) species on this day and uploaded 4,139 bird lists! In all, 835 species were recorded from India on this single day, of which 151 are endemic to S. Asia.
Himalaya Bird Count 2022-Results
Around 424 birders from India, Nepal, and Bhutan uploaded 1,150 lists and recorded 626 species on the day of the Himalayan Bird Count. This is a remarkable achievement for a single-day birding event!
Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop June 2022
For the seventh year, a single day workshop on Bird Monitoring in Kerala was held at the Academy of Climate Change Education & Research, Kerala...
Great Backyard Bird Count 2022- Results
Scroll down for Campus Bird Count Results Great Backyard Bird Count Results Summary The 10th edition of GBBC India was a rousing success! Last year when 952...
Using eBird Data for Research
In India, eBird adoption started in 2013 and there are now (March 2022) 30 million observations, 1.6 million images, 80,000 audio, and 10,000 videos. This...
Patch Monitoring Project Leaderboard
Updated: January 2022 The Patch Monitoring Project began in July 2021 with the objective to systematically monitor birds in local birding patches. Monitoring...
How to Conduct Bird Surveys in Forests
State forest departments across India are increasingly conducting bird surveys or bird counts through volunteers. A variety of methods are in use and many of...
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...
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...