Patterns and Analysis
Patterns and Analysis, Projects

Two years of the Mysore Bird Atlas

The Mysore City Bird Atlas is a pioneering effort to systematically document the city's birds. Like other systematic bird atlases, the Mysore atlas involves dividing up the area into equal-sized grids, and surveying each grid cell with equal effort, thus ensuring...

Patterns and Analysis, Popular

Repeated lists at a location

In June 2015, the India eBirding challenge was to upload at least 20 complete lists (of at least 15 min each) from a single location. Why is this an interesting thing to do and what can one learn from this? Here we explore these questions. As birders we often like...

Patterns and Analysis, Projects

Mysore city bird atlas — a pioneering effort!

When assessing the status and distribution of birds across a given region (eg, a city, district or even an entire country), one very useful approach is to construct a bird atlas. In such an atlas, relevant information (eg species occurrence and abundance, and...