Merlin, the bird identification app, has been tremendously useful for birders - beginners and experts alike. Merlin can identify bird species from photographs - but it can also suggest the species using simple facts like species size, major three colours, where it...
Tokhü Emong Bird Count (4- 7 Nov 2022) Preliminary Report Over the four days of the Tokhü Emong Bird Count (TEBC), 18 eBirders from Dimapur, Kohima, Peren and Wokha uploaded 84 checklists and recorded 178 species! Congratulations to everyone involved in the...
The Kerala Beachcombing is a systematic survey to study the shorebirds of the entire coastline of the state involving citizens from all walks of life like the beginners, amateurs and senior birders.
The eBird/Clements world checklist will soon get updated and the entire list will reflect in your eBird account. In terms of species splits and lumps; name changes there are minimal changes for the birders in South Asia but their impact is over a large region. The full list of changes will be posted soon.
Updated: October 2022 The Patch Monitoring Project began in July 2021 with the objective to systematically monitor birds in local birding patches. Monitoring such patches in the long-term can lead to fascinating and invaluable insights about the state of birds in...
Congratulations to all who have successfully completed one full year of patch monitoring through participation in the Patch Monitoring Project! The Patch Monitoring Project is an India-wide initiative for citizens to systematically monitor birds in their favourite...
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.
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!
For the seventh year, a single day workshop on Bird Monitoring in Kerala was held at the Academy of Climate Change Education & Research, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur on 19 June 2022. About 130 birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts, representing...
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 species were recorded Indian birders had set themselves a challenge to reach the unprecedented mark of 1000....
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 them use eBird as a backbone for ease of data collection, curation, quality control and analysis. However,...
Kati Bihu is the time when rice saplings are relocated. The festival is also called Kongali (Poor), which is meant to represent an empty granary and less food at that time of year. Because of this, Kati Bihu isn’t celebrated with as much pomp as the other two Bihu festivals. BBC aims to celebrate Kathi Bihu by documenting the wide variety of birds in Assam, particularly those that are winter migrants in Assam.
