The last month of the year, but the middle of the winter birding season in India — here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in December 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 2,002 (1,685)
Number of lists (all types): 20,500 (16,200)
Number of observations: 4.07 lakh (3.31 lakh)
December challenge
The challenge for December was to upload at least 30 eligible lists during the month (details at the link above). Of the 2,002 eBirders in this month, 129 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhinand C Abhin M Sunil Abhirami C ADIL NAFAR Afthab Faisal k Ains Priestman Ajay Gadikar AJU RAJU Albin Jacob Amal U S AM AMSA Aneesh Sasidevan Angeline Mano animesh manna Anish Aravind Ankit Vikrant Anup Prakash Aravind AM Arjun R Arnold Goveas Arun B Arun Thomas Ashwin Viswanathan Avinash K Mon Bhanu Sridharan Bopanna Pattada Chirag Munje Dayani Chakravarthy Deepti Krishnan dhanapal kondasamy Dhiraj Bhaisare Dhruba Saikia Divya Mudappa Dr George P J Elavarasan M Emanuel george fermin jose Ganeshwar S V Gireesan TU GIRISHKUMAR K Gopi Sundar GOVIND GIRIJA habeel sahal Hakimuddin F Saify Hareesha AS hari kumar HARI MAVELIKARA Harsha Jayaramaiah Harshith JV HARSHJEET BAL HG Prashanthakumar Himavat Gouresh Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jinesh P S JOE MRAJA Karunakar Rayker Kedar Champhekar krishnakumar K Iyer Krishna Murthy krunal trivedi | Kshitija Gupta Kumar RR Lakshmikant Neve Lekshmi Jayakumar Lloyd Fernandes Manju Sinha manoj p g MAXIM RODRIGUES K Mehala Kumar MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala Mohammed Sayeer Mohanan Choron Narendran M.M Niranjana C Panchapakesan Jeganathan Periyasamy Rajangam Pradeepa Sudhakar Prashanth N S Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran PRIYA AV Pushpa Puliyeri rahul narlanka Rajesh Radhakrishnan rakesh ahlawat Ramesh Desai renju tr Roozbeh Gazdar Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan sajitha siril Sandhya Lenka sasidharan manekkara Selvaganesh K Selvaraj Rangasamy Sheena S Sherin James Shilpa Gadgil Shwetha Bharathi Sreekumar Chirukandoth Sreekumar E R Steffin Babu Subbu Subramanya Subhadra Devi Sudheesh Mohan SYAMILI MANOJ Tamil Selvan A tanuja dasharath haunsbhavi Thomas Job T R Shankar Raman Tubin Babu VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vidhya Swaminathan Vijaya Lakshmi Vinay Bharadwaj Vinay Bhat Vinay Nadig Vineeth Malabaricus Vinod Shankar Vivek Puliyeri |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
All the checklists of those named above were put into a pool and one list with uploaded media was drawn from this pool using a computer-generated random number. That list belongs to
George P J (see profile)
who receives a copy of The Seabird’s Cry, by Adam Nicolson, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for January (AWC counts at at least three different wetlands)? And there is a new set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
