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...
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...
