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Data Analysis Consultation for eBird Data

A large quantity of eBird data available could be difficult to navigate. Bird Count India team has some experience in analyzing eBird data and is willing to unblock other analysts in their job to get desired results. Every Thursday, there will be three 20-minute slots. Available BCI staff will answer any questions you have during this 20 minutes.

Bluethroat photograph by Abhishek Das
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Rongali Bihu Bird Count 2021-Results

Rongali Bihu or Bohag Bihu marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year. This is the time of the year when summer is setting in, and birds all around you will be busy with breeding activities. Aim of the Rongali Bihu Bird Count is to document the wide variety of birds in Assam, particularly those that breed in Assam during this time of the year.

Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon Treron phoenicopterus © Rajkumar Das/Macaulay Library
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Magh Bihu Bird Count 2021-Results

Magh Bihu or Bhogali Bihu has its own importance of celebrating the harvesting season of crops. It is that time of the year when you are surrounded by misted fog, cold nights, and migrating birds. The aim of Magh Bihu Bird Count is to document the diversity of bird species and their number at this time of the year.

Great Hornbill (Great Pied Hornbill) Buceros bicornis © Vinit Bajpai/Macaulay Library
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Lockdown Birding Challenge Results

The Lockdown Birding Challenge ran from 27 March to 16 May 2020. The idea was to try and turn a difficult time into a positive contribution towards understanding India's birds. The basic idea was to watch birds every day, twice a day (morning and evening) in a...

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Coimbatore City Bird Atlas Feb-Mar 2020 Report

Coimbatore City Bird Atlas (CCBA) is a citizen science project to map the distribution and abundance of birds of the Coimbatore city using field surveys between 2020 and 2022. The city was gridded and divided into thirty-seven, 3.3 km x 3.3 km cells. Each cell is a...

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Magh Bihu Bird Count 2020-Results

Magh Bihu Bird Count 2020, was the first Bihu Bird Count that took place from 11th to 13th January, 2020. The aim is to encourage people to go birding anywhere, recording and sharing their observations and uploading their checklists on the eBird website. The...

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Birders documenting bird migration

Note: some of the animations in this post are large files, and may take a few minutes to load. Bird migration is one of nature's great wonders. But despite a long history of research on migration, there is still much to learn! In this article, let's take the...