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Jungle Babbler, widespread throughout India. Photo by Prashant Kumar.
CONTACT INFORMATION
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the relevant coordinators, below. If your State is not listed here, please email your questions to [email protected] or call Ramit Singal at 9686915235.
Assam
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Udayan Borthakur <[email protected]> 9435728717 Narayan Sharma <[email protected]> 7896951705 |
Narayan Sharma <[email protected]> 7896951705 Jaydev Mandal <[email protected]> 9864942722 |
Delhi
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Soma Ateesh <[email protected]> 9810415483 Abhishek Gulshan <[email protected]> 9818944362 |
Meghna Joshi <[email protected]> 9953115182 |
Goa
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Mandar Bhagat <[email protected]> Pronoy Baidya <[email protected]> 8277397042 |
Gujarat
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Maulik Varu <[email protected]> 9909071540 Prasad Ganpule <[email protected]> |
Kedar Champhekar <[email protected]> 9909411954 |
Jammu and Kashmir
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Intesar Suhail <[email protected]> 9419049275 |
Parvaiz Shagoo <[email protected]> 9797290608 |
Karnataka
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Prashanth N S <[email protected]> 9449599566 Vaidehi Gunjal <[email protected]> 9480585450 Shiva Shankar <[email protected]> 9886082546 Anto Christy <[email protected]> 9019699940 |
Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> 9980010366 Hemanth Byatroy <[email protected]> 9535721366 |
Kerala
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| P.O. Nameer <[email protected]> 9446573106 See district coordinators here |
P.O. Nameer <[email protected]> 9446573106 |
Madhya Pradesh
| GBBC | |
| David Raju <[email protected]> 9446603590 |
Maharashtra
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Jayant Wadatkar <[email protected]> 9822875773 Girish Jathar <[email protected]> 9404264084 Chinmay Rahane <[email protected]> 9881254078 Dharmaraj Patil <[email protected]> 9881186399 |
Madhushri Mudke <[email protected]> 8879172871 |
Odisha
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Panchami Manoo Ukil <[email protected]> 7894577490; 9439300000 Swetashree Purohit <[email protected]> 9937765966 |
Swetashree Purohit <[email protected]> 9937765966 |
Sikkim
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Usha Lachungpa <[email protected]> 9434025273 |
Tamil Nadu
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Muthu Narayanan <[email protected]> P. Jeganathan <[email protected]> 9487020110 |
Subramanian Sankar <[email protected]> 9840111606 Ganeshwar SV <[email protected]> 9003359400 |
Telangana
| GBBC | Campus Bird Count |
| Humayun Taher <[email protected]> 9885704100 Rajeev Khandelwal <[email protected]> 9700325983 |
Harikrishnan S. <[email protected]> 7559090552 |
Uttarakhand
| GBBC | |
| Prashant Kumar <[email protected]> 9690049033 Raman Kumar <[email protected]> 9412348345 |
Uttar Pradesh
| GBBC | |
| Able Lawrence <[email protected]> 9984648333 Manan Singh Mahadev <[email protected]> 7565091380 |
West Bengal
| GBBC | |
| Sagar Adhurya <[email protected]> 9474739327 |
TIPS & FAQs
Some tips to make your GBBC weekend crackle!
- Look for birds for at least 15 minutes, and upload the list, with counts, to eBird (ebird.org/india).
- You can repeat this as often as you like, from as many different locations as you like.
- Each list should be tied to a single location, so that birds from far apart aren’t combined into a single list. Travelling counts are ideally done within a distance of 5km from start to end. If you are travelling further, it’s good to start a new list.
- Lists can last for more than 15 minutes, and it’s also fine to do multiple short lists at a single location.
- The information you contribute is most useful if your lists are complete; that is if you specify all species that you were able to identify. Don’t be tempted to leave out common species like Feral Pigeon, House Crow or Common Myna! When at a wetland, don’t list only waterbirds. This link explains why.
- Your lists are even more valuable if you count individuals of each species, and not report them only as being present. Here is why.
- For those new to eBird, here is a beginner’s guide; and here is a list of some common confusions in species names. New users should please immediately change their settings to show names in “English (India)”.
- When birding in a group, use the eBird ‘share‘ feature to copy the lists to all members in the group.
- Please consider using this as an opportunity to introduce people to birding! They will get to have fun, and to see their first birdlist online! Tell us about your event ([email protected]) so that we can add it to the listing of Events & Projects.
- If possible, do consider doing a talk on birds at a school or college, or a neighbourhood bird walk to introduce birds to new audiences. We have a freely downloadable presentation on “An Introduction to Birds and Birding” that you can use as a template (available at this page).
- If you are new to birds and birding, do consider finding and accompanying a more experienced birder. Perhaps you can join one of the events listed here.
- If you have questions, please ask in the comments below, or ask on our Facebook event page or Twitter (@birdcountindia). You could also contact one of the State coordinators listed above.
Happy Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count!