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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...

Challenges, Projects

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...

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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...

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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...

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How to Choose a Local Patch

This is the second in a series of articles from Bird Count India about Patch Birding, following on from Part 1 "What is Patch Birding?"... Location Thankfully birds occur in most areas and you don’t have to travel far, or go to anywhere special, to go birding. In...

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What is Patch Birding?

Do Black Drongos migrate? Have I seen a Green Bee-eater recently? Is Greenish Warbler only a passage migrant in my area, or a winter visitor as well? Do juvenile Barn Swallows migrate with adults, or separately? Are migrants arriving later this year? Do Asian Koels...

Birding a Local Patch
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...

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Kerala Bird Atlas starts today

For the first time in the India, a planned and systematic atlassing effort at the State level is getting underway. The Kerala Bird Atlas effort is expected to take 5 years to complete. Roughly one out of every ten kilometre squares will be surveyed once each in...

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Kerala Bird Atlas

Project Completed View/Download An Atlas of the Birds of Kerala (archive.org) Kerala Bird Atlas: Features, outcomes and implications (Current Science)  Kerala Bird Atlas: Features & Insights (Analysis Report) Download District Brochures (Printable) Kasaragod,...

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Where are the birding gaps? Part II

By Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Over the last year, eBird's popularity amongst birders in India has grown rapidly. An increasing number of birders are using eBird as a platform to keep track of their bird sightings and locations and for planning their upcoming bird...

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...

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Mysore Bird Atlas

Update, Sept 2019: a paper on some broad findings of the Atlas has been published in Indian Birds journal. Download pdf here. The maps and other results shown in the paper may differ slightly from what is depicted on this web page. In any such cases, please take...