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Great Backyard Bird Count 2022
18 Feb 2022 - 21 Feb 2022
GBBC 2022 | Bird Walks & Talks (Registration form) | Resources | Contacts | Campus Bird Count 2022
Resources
If you’re new to eBird or birding, the following resources might be of help.
How-To Guides for Birding & eBird
If you are new to birding, here are some resources to get you started, from what you will need to watch birds, to get familiar with common birds around you.
A list of short videos and webinars regarding eBird can be viewed at Bird Count India’s Youtube channel.
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The eBird Essentials Course
What is eBird and how can you use it to find more birds, keep track of your sightings and participate in events like the GBBC? You can get up to speed in just 3 hours, by trying the free eBird Essentials Course.
Merlin Bird ID
If you are new to birding, Merlin can be your birding coach. Merlin’s latest India pack helps you identify over 1000 species. All you have to do is upload a photo of the bird or answer a few questions and Merlin will suggest the most likely ID. See this webinar recording on how to use Merlin Bird ID App.
You can download the following material about the GBBC. Please help by spreading the word amongst your friends and contacts too!
Media Kit
You can download a GBBC press release in PDF format or an editable word document that you can alter to give details of local events and contacts if you so wish. Please circulate to your friends and contacts in the media.
We also have some excellent high-resolution images of birds and birdwatchers, available to be used in all GBBC 2022 publicity. Please do credit the photographer when using a photo. Posters for publicity will soon be made available in English Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Odiya, Bengali, Assamese
Introduction to Birds and Birdwatching
We have put together a PowerPoint presentation on “An Introduction to Birds and Birdwatching”, which includes a section on birds in general, a guide to common Indian birds, and a section on Beyond Birding, with some slides about the GBBC. You are welcome to download this presentation, modify it for your audience and context and use it. There is an accompanying word document with notes for each slide, to help with the presentation. If you do plan to use the presentation, please do let us know; and afterwards, tell us how it went!
Presentation (v0.3, 2016): .ppt (17.6 Mb) or .pdf (16.4 Mb) | Notes: .doc (40 Kb)
On some computers (eg running Linux/LibreOffice) the ppt presentation may not appear correctly. Please download the pdf instead.
There is a Telugu version of this presentation:
GBBC_IntroBirdsBirding-v0.3-Telugu, PDF: GBBC_IntroBirdsBirding-v0.3-Telugu
Note: This presentation has been created for the Bird Count India partnership. It is meant for download and use in educational and outreach efforts. You are free to modify it to suit specific purposes and audiences. This presentation is being distributed on the understanding that none of the material it contains will be used for commercial purposes, and that in all cases photograph credits must be retained in any modified version. Most of the photographs in this presentation have been used with the specific permission of the photographer. Others have been downloaded from the internet; for these we apologize for not having obtained advance permission. If your photo appears in this presentation, and you wish to have it removed, please write to [email protected] and we will replace it.
Downloadable posters for social media
(To make prints, click on the PDF’s below):
GBBC-Landscape
GBBC- Portrait
Here are more downloadable/ printable posters for GBBC/ CBC in other languages.
See next page for details of State Coordinators for GBBC 2022.
Will I get a certificate for this?
Hi Gourav,
We can email you the certificate and you could take a print of it.
I would like to take part and do I need to register any where ? If yes, pls let me know where, thank you
Not need any registration. Your lists will be counted as the part of GBBC programme, if you follow the protocol of the programme.
I have submitted the form, do let me know if it came through. Thanks
Tanu
My Contact No for coordination is 8149659353 / 7588740661 & not 9980472049. Please Correct it for Maharashtra – Bhusawal.
Sure Mr. Neve. Thanks for letting us know.
I had registered for this event, i am conducting closed Group Birding in Bagalkote backwater. Do all members needs to submit the form?
Any one 1 person from the group can submit the event form.
Hi, is there any other ID of the GBBC where checklist has to be shared …
Hi Reshma, there is no ID. All checklists that are at least of 15 minutes and above and complete lists made from 18 to 21 Feb will automatically added to GBBC.
Will the routine ebird checklist in ebird app is enough? Or do we need to do seperately for GBBC
The routine eBird checklists through the app is enough.
Please see the guidelines here: Go birding for at least 15 min, listing and counting all the species you see. It doesn’t matter if you can’t identify every single species — what you can identify is good enough! Login to http://www.ebird.org/india and submit your species list or you can do the same through eBird Mobile App (we strongly recommend this).
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