Acknowledgements
India fared much better in this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count than in previous years. This has much to do with the contributions and support from various people and groups from across the country.
Many thanks must be given to all the state coordinators for GBBC 2017. They ensure that the various events in their regions are carried out in a smooth manner and participants are helped out whenever possible.
Several people single-handedly took the initiative in their region and worked with other birders, groups, institutions and more to carry out counts, bird walks, hold events, etc. We would also like to acknowledge the work of those who successfully organized counts on campuses across India for the Campus Bird Count 2017.
Many thanks to:
Vardhan Patankar, Udayan Borthakur, Narayan Sharma, Jaydev Mondal, Deepak Balasubramaniam, Hakimuddin Saify, Mohit Sahu, Mandar Bhagat, Pronoy Baidya, Omkar Dharwadkar, Kedar Champhekar, Sivakumar Swaminathan, Santosh Thakur, Parvaiz Shagoo, Intesar Suhail, Nadeem Qadri, Deepa Mohan, Hemanth Byatroy, Vaidehi Gunjal, Shiva Shankar, Ajay Gadikar, Saurabh Sawant, Komal Agrawal, Dharmaraj Patil, Soma Ateesh, Pankaj Gupta, Meghna Joshi, Abhishek Gulshan, Panchami Manoo Ukil, Swetashree Purohit, Subramanian Sankar, Ganeshwar SV, Phani Krishna Ravi, Abhishek Ravindra, Rajeev Khandelwal, Gopalkrishna Iyer, Able Lawrence, Manan Singh Mahadev, Raman Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Sagar Adhurya, Mousumi Dutta, Neeraj Sharma, Dr G V Gopi, Ashutosh Singh, Mittal Gala, Harman Kour, Dr Sanjeeva Nayaka, Nelson George, Steffin Babu, Dr Surya Prakash, Chandra Bhushan Maurya, Vijaylakshmi Suman, Ajay Immanuel Gonji, Chetna Sharma, Parvez Kaleem, Saikat Adhurya, Debayan Gayen, Savithri Raman, Kanak Bali Singh, Ramjee Nagarajan, Anil Sarasavan, Savithri Raman, Dr Jayant Wadatkar, Pranad Patil, Kadambari Devarajan, Anand Pendharkar, Madhusudhan Srinivasan, Nandini Rajamani, V Santharam, Dr PU Antony, Rahul Narlanka, Ankit Vikrant, Avishkar Munje, Vineeth Kumar, Abhishek Jamalabad, Surendra Boobalan, Subbu Subramanya, Govind Girija, Sreekumar ER, Susy Varghese, Selvaganesh K, Sivakumar S, Kalpana Jayaram, Amar Malwani, Sonu Arora
(Note: If we have missed out on any one who should be on this list, please do let us know.)