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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
