Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in February by-the-numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 6,705 (5,130)
Number of observations: 14.9 lakh (11.9 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 1,07,856 (41,657)
Number of species: 1,125 (1,094)
Number of lists with media: 5,767 (5,520)
January Challenge:
The Feb challenge was to supplement the GBBC event by contributing at least 40 lists. A total of 153 birders met the target!
Abeer Watve, Abhin M Sunil, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Aditya Kulkarni, Ahammed Saeed, Akhil S, Am Amsa, Amal U S, Amarnath K S, Amrit Raha, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Aneesh Sasidevan, Angeline Mano M, Aniket Roy, Anish Bera, Anitha A, Anoop Nair, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Arjun Suresh , Arun Singh, Arun Rai Arun Rai, Ashok Agarwal, Ashwin Viswanathan, Athira M Suresh, Ayan Watve, Azhar Muhammed, Barbara Kelley, Be Rajendran, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Bindu Krishnan, Bipasha Pan, Chayan Debnath, Chirag Munje, Dambar Kumar Pradhan, David Bishop, Deepali Watve, Dhruba Saikia, Dibyendu Ash, Dipankar Dev, Dipu Sasi, Dr George P J, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Elavarasan M, Fes Chittorgarh, G Lakshmanan, Gaja Mohanraj, Ganeshwar S V, Garima Bhatia, Gourav Sonawane, Govind Girija, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hareesha A.S., Harikrishnan C P, Harish Babu M, Jaisal Singh Bhati, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Joseph Melkis Raja, Kalaiselvan V, Kaushik Sarkar, Khemchand Jaiswal, Krishnendu Das, Kunan Naik, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Lathika K K, M Singh, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manash Pratim, Manasi Mahajan, Mandar Tijare, Manjula Desai, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Mayuri Jani, Mehala Kumar, Mithilesh Padhan, Mohan Asampalli, Mohanan Choron, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mukundan Kizhakkemadham, Naveen Arur, Neel Brahme, Padma Gyalpo, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Peder Svingen, Prabhav Benara, Prabhudatta Bal, Prasenjit Bhattacharjee, Pravar Mourya, Praveen Bennur, Praveen Chavan, Premchand Reghuvaran, Raja Bandi, Rajendra Koranga, Ramesh Shenai, Ramit Singal, Raveendran Kc, Reji Chandran, Renju Tr, Rick Bowers, Rohit Rai, Rounak Patra, Sabin Mathew Sam, Sahana M, Sahil Labba Khalid Jaseela, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samartha Sg, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sarthy Prasanth, Seema Tekam, Selvaganesh K, Senan D’Souza, Shilpa Gadgil, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddhant Mhetre, Siva T, Soumyadip Mondal, Spoorthi Nagaraju, Sreejesh Nellikode, Sreelal K Mohan, Srushti Bokil, Subhadra Devi, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sudip Simha, Sunita Dighe, Supriya Kulkarni, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Tomal Gogoi, Toto Hazarika, Urjit Singh, V Sitaram, Vasi ., Veena Kumari K, Venus Joshi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vidya Raju, Vidyasagar Jagtap, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vinay K L, Viraj Athalye, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Sudhakaran, Yadu Prasad.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 153 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Dambar Kumar Pradhan who receives a T-shirt (Endemic Birds of India) as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for March?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!
Header Image: Chestnut-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus castaniceps by Sharma BC/ Macaulay Library
