December is peak birding season in much of India. Here is the break-up of eBirding in India in Dec 2017 (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 1,476 (1,288)
Number of lists (all types): 16,500 (12,800)
Number of observations: 3.37 lakh (2.42 lakh)
December challenge
The challenge for December was to upload at least 30 eligible birdlists (see the link above for details). Of the 1,476 eBirders in this month, 92 met or exceeded this target! They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
| Abhin M Sunil Aisha Sultana Ajay Gadikar Ameet Mandavia AMIYARANJAN DAS Anish Aravind Ankit Vikrant Anup Prakash Aravind Amirtharaj Arne Wenzel Arnold Goveas arun lal Ashwin Viswanathan Avinash Sharma Chirag Munje christian artuso Colin Lamond Craig Robson Daniele Mitchell David Raju Dhananjai Mohan Dr George P J Elavarasan M Emanuel george fermin jose Gaja mohanraj Ganeshwar SV GOVIND GIRIJA Gowthama Poludasu HARI MAVELIKARA Harshith JV HARSHJEET BAL HG Prashanthakumar Jageshwer verma Jamaludheen Karivelil Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jis Mon Karunakar Rayker Kumar Singh Lakshmikant Neve Latha Prabhakaran Lloyd Fernandes Mahesh Kashyap Manju Sinha Mohanan Choron |
Mohan Chandra Joshi Murugesh Natesan Narendran M.M Panchapakesan Jeganathan PANKAJ GUPTA Periyasamy Rajangam PRASHANTHA KRISHNA M C Prashant Negi Praveen es Praveen J praver mourya Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Puspita Jena Rajendar Sahoo Rajesh Panwar Ramit Singal raphy kallettumkara Ravi naidu Renju TR Rutuja Dhamale Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Sanjay Sondhi sasidharan manekkara Selvaganesh K Shah Jahan Shekar Vishvanath Sreekumar Chirukandoth Sreekumar E R sreekumar k govindankutty Steffin Babu Stephan Lorenz subramania siva Sudheesh Mohan Surendhar Boobalan Thanigai Velu Tubin Babu Varsha Raj Vidhya Sundar Vijaya Lakshmi Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy Vinay Bhat Vinay Nadig Vineith Malabaricus |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
All eligible lists of these 92 birders were put into a bag, and one list with media was selected, using a computer-generated random number. That list belongs to
who receives a copy of The Thing with Feathers, by Noah Strycker as a small gift in appreciation.
Crab Plover, by Krishna Murthy/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab. From this checklist.
Are you doing your best to match the target for January (waterbird counts)? And there are a whole set of new yearlong challenges for 2018!
