With the winter, the GBBC, and several other events and festivals – February is a month for birding quite unlike any other! Here is the breakup of birding in India in the month of February 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 2,273 (1,476)
Number of lists (all types): 31,400 (16,500)
Number of observations: 5.1 (3.37 lakh)
February challenge
The challenge in February was to upload at least 20 lists during the GBBC dates and another 20 outside of those dates. Of the 2,273 eBirders in this month, 65 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhin M Sunil Adhithyan NK AFREED MUHAMMED N V Ajay Gadikar ajin reji Amal U S AM AMSA animesh manna Anup Prakash Arun B ashok raj v m Avinash Sharma David Raju Deepti Krishnan Dinesh Pundir Divya Subramani Elavarasan M Emanuel george GOVIND GIRIJA habeel sahal Jamaludheen Karivelil Jayadev Menon Jaydev Mandal Kiron Vijay Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Maneesh Rajvanshi MAXIM RODRIGUES K Meenangadi Birding Mohammed Sayeer Mohan Chandra Joshi Mukundan Kizhakkemadham Najeeb K |
Nesrudheen PP Panchapakesan Jeganathan Parvaiz Shagoo Periyasamy Rajangam Pradeepa Sudhakar Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Raja Simma Pandiyan Raman Kumar Ramit Singal Ravi naidu Renju TR Sajeev Krishnan sajitha siril Sandhya Lenka Selvaganesh K Somoyita sur Sreehari K Mohan Sreekumar Chirukandoth Sreekumar E R sreekumar k govindankutty SRINILA MAHESH K T SUMAYYABI P V Tarun Menon vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Velayudhan C Vidhya Sundar Vinay Bhat Vivek Puliyeri vrinda lath |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
One name out of the above was selected using a computer-generated random number. The name is
Animesh Manna
who receives a copy of The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg, by Tim Birkhead as a small gift in appreciation.
Verditer Flycatcher by Abhishek Das/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (See checklist)
Are you doing your best to match the target for March (30 lists this month + 3 shared with 3 or more eBirders)? And there are a whole set of new yearlong challenges for 2018!
Header Image: Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus © Samim Akhter/ Macaulay Libary
