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.
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 nil. Finding any of these would be something to celebrate and cherish. Here are 20 of the most fantastic...
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 Telugu. These names will be seen in eBird and Birds of the World (BoW). This is in addition to Malayalam and...
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 had agreed for this transfer can start browsing your collection now by going to the OBI landing page. Your...
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, ornithologists, photographers, and naturalists are invited to participate in the vulture count. HOW TO...
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 channel is for you! Subscribe now! Our playlists contain: Short Videos- From editing to adding media to your...
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; name changes; and the insertion of new spuhs, slashes, and so on. Birders in South Asia may relax this year...
