Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in December by-the-numbers (with the previous month in brackets)
No. of birders: 4,273 (3,906)
Number of observations: 8 lakh (6.8 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 45,666 (39,567)
Number of species: 1,099 (1,099)
Number of lists with media: 5,028
November Challenge:
The challenge for December was to post at least 40 lists and to augment them with media (photographs/ sound recordings). A total of 69 birders met the target.
Aakib Hussain, Abeer Watve, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Ambady Sasi, Amrit Raha, Ankush Nirmalkar, Arun Gopi, Ashok Agarwal, Bijoy Venugopal, Chayan Debnath, Deepali Watve, Dhruba Saikia, Dipankar Dev, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harikrishnan C P, Harish Babu M, Jageshwer Verma, Karthik Thrikkadeeri, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Lakshmikant Neve, Manju Sinha, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Mehala Kumar, Mohammed Hirash, Mohanan Choron, Navin Rajan, Nesrudheen Pp, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Praveen Bennur, Rakesh Das, Ramesh Shenai, Raveendran Kc, Ravi Kavungal, Renjith V J, Sahana M, Sajeev Krishnan, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Santhi K, Sarthy Prasanth, Shakti Vel, Shilpa Gadgil, Shino Jacob Koottanad, Srushti Bokil, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Srinivas Mallela, Steffin Babu, Sudip Simha, Sujith Vs, Supriya Kulkarni, Thrinisha T U, V Sitaram, Vaibhav Patil, Venus Joshi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikram S, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vishal Mistry, Vishnu Nandakumar, Vivek Sudhakaran, Vyom Vyas.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 69 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Vivek Sudhakaran who receives the book- The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead
Are you doing your best to match the target for January?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!
Header Image: Indian Scops-Owl Otus bakkamoena by Able Lawrence/ Macaulay Library
