India Bird Races

In 2024, India Bird Races, in the current form has closed its operations. All activities of this alliance has moved to a new program WINGS – Birds of India.

Having started in 2005 in Mumbai, the India Bird Races have spread to many cities and regions of the country. The idea is to search for birds from dawn to dusk and record as many species as possible while enjoying being outdoors and watching birds! For more information, and to look for a Bird Race in your city, click here.

For all general enquires on India Bird Races, contact the coordination team lead by Sunjoy Monga. Email: [email protected]

Upcoming Bird Races

Karnataka

Bengaluru

The 18th edition of Bangalore bird race is scheduled for Sunday, 21 January 2024. Click on this link to register. The last date for registration is 15 January. For details, contact: Krishna Murthy at [email protected]

Madhya Pradesh

Indore

• Indore Bird Race 2023

Indore is conducting the bird race on Sunday, 17 December 2023. The last date for registration is 15 December. For details, contact: Ajay Gadikar: 9302102821, Amod Gawarikar- 9753161213

General Guidelines for uploading your sightings during Bird Races

The sightings during the various bird races are meant to be recorded in eBird, to create a long-term record of bird distribution and abundance in the country. Here are some guidelines for using eBird during the bird races.

• Each team should designate a person to keep track of bird sightings. This is ideally done directly on the eBird app — it’s the quickest and most efficient way. The designated person should be familiar with using eBird already.
• For each location, create a separate birdlist, which includes all species seen or heard, together with counts. The app will ask for effort information for each list, including distance travelled, duration.
• Birds seen while travelling from one location to another should be put in separate lists, with location tagged as near as possible to the actual place seen. These lists would be ‘incidental’ in eBird parlance.
• You can keep the lists unsubmitted, and keep starting a new list for each new location. At the end of the day, review each location’s list to check for errors and to add any useful notes/comments.
• During list upload, you will be given the option to ‘share’. This means to copy the list into another eBird account. Please share with all your team-mates and (depending on instructions given locally) with the India Bird Races central account. You will need the eBird usernames in order to share your list.

Note:

One of the easiest way to track what your team saw during the bird race is by creating an eBird Trip Report. eBird Trip Reports compile your eBird checklists and give you an overview of where you went and what you found, along with your photos and audio recordings, all in one convenient location for sharing.

Happy Birding !

Gujarat

• Gujarat Bird Race 2022

Karnataka

• Bangalore Bird Race 2023
• Bangalore Bird Race 2022
• Bangalore Bird Race 2021
• Bangalore Bird Race 2020
• Bangalore Bird Race 2019
• Bangalore Bird Race 2018
• Bangalore Bird Race 2017

Kerala

2023

• Kochi Bird Race
• Kozhikode Bird Race
• Thiruvananthapuram Bird Race

2022

• Kochi Bird Race
• Kozhikode Bird Race
• Thiruvananthapuram Bird Race

2021

• Thiruvananthapuram Bird Race

2019

• Kochi Bird Race

2018

• Kochi Bird Race

2017

• Kochi Bird Race

2016

• Kochi Bird Race

Contact us if you have past bird race trip reports!

Header Image: Greater Painted-Snipe Rostratula benghalensis © Lars Petersson/ Macaulay Library