Saturday 14 May was a great success as Endemic Bird Day in India, with 204 birders uploading 592 lists to eBird - more than 13,000 bird observations! A total of 449 different species were recorded, and this was 56% of the 225 endemics that occur in South Asia....
This is a summary of an article by S. Gopikrishna Warrier in India Climate Dialogue, using eBird India data to demonstrate the range expansion of dry-land species, such as Indian Peafowl, Siberian Stonechat, Desert Wheatear and Red-headed Bunting, in Kerala. What...
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...
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...
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...
