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Kerala Beachcombing

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. 

Sanderlings flying along the sea shore. Photograph by Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan and Macaulay Library
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Patch Monitoring Project Leaderboard

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...

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Patch Monitoring Project—Systematic Bird Monitoring

Results of 2022 Patch Monitoring Project Suhel Quader made an eBird checklist almost every school day, from January 2014 to December 2019, while he walked his children to their bus stop. He analysed the data to come up with this beautiful representation of the...

Patterns and Analysis, Projects

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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Coimbatore City Bird Atlas

This citizen science project is aimed to understand the distribution and abundance of birds of the Coimbatore City through a systematic survey. This work closely follows the already completed Mysore city Bird Atlas and the ongoing Kerala Bird Atlas. Technical...

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Pune Bird Atlas

NEW: We are happy to resume the birding for Pune Bird Atlas (PBA). Please familiarize yourself with the protocol for PBA. You can keep track of progress on the project dashboard. We aim to survey the grids in orange colour  (January 2021 onwards). Watch this space...

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Three years of the Mysore Bird Atlas

The Mysore City Bird Atlas has completed three years of operation and summaries of the results for 2014-2016 are available to view and download! The Atlas is a systematic attempt to document the city's birds; both across the urban span and across two seasons:...

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Announcing the 2016 eBird-India data challenge!

A large number of birdwatchers across India have been using eBird over the last 2-3 years, and have collectively generated a huge amount of information on the birds of our country. The eBird-India Data Challenge invites anyone interested to download the information...

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Patch Birding Challenge

Following on from the series of articles from Bird Count India about Patch Birding, we are pleased to announce details of the exciting Bird Count India Patch Birding Challenge. Simply register to take part below and write a patch report, based on the ideas...

Birding a Local Patch
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Sharing your Patch Birding

This is the fourth part of five in a series of articles from Bird Count India about Patch Birding, following on from Part 3 "How to Record Birds from your Patch"... Now you are patch birding and gathering some great observations, so let’s share your enjoyment with...

Birding a Local Patch
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How to Record Birds from your Patch

This is the third in a series of articles from Bird Count India about Patch Birding, following on from Part 2 "How to Choose a Local Patch"... eBird The most obvious and valuable way your day-to-day sightings from patch birding can be interesting and useful is to...

Birding a Local Patch