February is a month of major birding activity, partly due to the Great Backyard Bird Count. Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in February 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 2,916 (2,378) Number of lists (all types): 47,800 (33,600) Number of observations: 6.94 lakh (6.04 lakh)
February challenge
The challenge for February was to upload at least 20 eligible lists during the GBBC, and a further 20 in the remaining days of the month (details at the link above). Of the 2,916 eBirders in this month, 80 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhin M Sunil Abhirami C Adhithyan NK ADIL NAFAR Afthab Faisal k Aiswaryalakshmi A R Ajay Gadikar Amal U S AM AMSA Aneesh Sasidevan Angeline Mano Anish Aravind Anup Prakash Aravind AM Aravind Amirtharaj Arun B Ashwin Viswanathan Deepti Krishnan Devika Ps Dhruba Saikia Dr. NISHAD PM Dr.Sandip Modi Elavarasan M Gireesan TU Gopi Sundar GOVIND GIRIJA Hareesha AS hari kumar Himavat Gouresh Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Jaydev Mandal JOE M RAJA krishnakumar K Iyer Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Lathika K K MAXIM RODRIGUES K MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala |
Mohammed Hirash Mohanan Choron Mukundan Kizhakkemadham Narendran M.M Niranjana C Panchapakesan Jeganathan Pradeepa Sudhakar Pravar Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Rajesh Radhakrishnan Raju Kidoor Ramakrishnan Kumaranallur Ramesh Desai Regin Ross Renju TR Revathy Reji Sajeev Krishnan sajitha siril Sakthi Chinnakannu Senan D’Souza Sheena S Sohail Madan Sreehari K Mohan Sreekumar E R SRINILA MAHESH K T Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi S – V I S H N U S A N K A R SYAMILI MANOJ Tamil Selvan A vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vidhya Swaminathan Vineith Malabaricus Vinod Shankar Vishnu Sreejith Vivek Chandran Vivek Puliyeri |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
All the names listed above were put into a pool and one was drawn from using a computer-generated random number. That name is
Sajitha Siril (see profile)
who receives a copy of The Thing With Feathers, by Noah Strycker, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for March (birding with others)? And there is a new set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
