February 2024 eBirders of the Month

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: 8,330 (7,186)

Number of observations: 18.4 lakh (14.2 lakh)

Number of lists (all types): 87,687 (75,646)

Number of species: 1,115 (1,100)

Number of lists with media: 6,911 (6,539)

The challenge for February was to upload a minimum of 33 checklists, with at least 8 of those lists uploaded during the GBBC dates. A total of 581 eBirders successfully met this target!

Aadhisha Bs, Aamira Akthar, Aantarip Dey, Abhijit Hota, Abhilash Chakraborty, Abhin M Sunil, Abhirag K, Abhiram Sankar, Abhishek.S S, Abi Sharon, Able Maria Pauly, Achyuth Sundar, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Adithya Raghunath, Aditya Kulkarni, Aditya Waje, Afsar Nayakkan, Afthab Faisal K, Ahammed Saeed, Ahmed Omar Haroon, Aishwarya Mahesh, Aiswarya K Saji, Aiswaryalakshmi A R, Aity Thapa, Ajay Gadikar, Ajay Sarvagnam, Akash Maurya, Akhil A S, Akhil Ashok, Akhil Narayanan, Akshay Herur, Aleena Ajith, Am Amsa, Amal U S, Amarnath K S, Ambady Sasi, Amee Vyas, Amit Thakur, Ampady Sugathan, Amrit Raha, Anagha Devi, Anagha Reji, Anand Mohan, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Aneesh Sasidevan, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Bhaduri , Anish Bera, Anjali Pande, Ankita Konwar, Ankush Nirmalkar Gkvk, Ann Kovich, Annie Feby, Anoop Nair, Ansar Khan, Anuj Saikia, Anukrishna R, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Anurupa Shil, Aparajita Datta, Aparna D, Apurv Pirke, Arathi Dileep, Arathi Sasidharan, Archana Jha, Ardra Vp, Arjun Suresh , Arshaan Shaikh, Arun Lal, Arun Gopi, Arun M D, Arun Singh, Arun Tyagi, Arunava Dutta, Arvindkumar Naicker, Aryan Mandhania, Ashin Ajay, Ashish Potdar, Ashok Agarwal, Ashwin R, Ashwin Viswanathan, Ashwin Warudkar, Athira M Suresh, Athira P, Avian Trips, Avinash Bhagat, Ayaan S, Aysha Dhiyana, Azhar Muhammed, B.R. Ansil, Babloo Farswan, Bhaarat Vyas, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bharath Krishnan V, Bhavishya C M, Bhavya Desai, Bhavya Subi, Bhupendra Sahu, Bhuvan Raj K, Bijoy Venugopal, Bikash Dalbot Shira, Binod Thami, Bipasha Pan, Birder Bã¤Bã¤, Bobby M, Brian Gibbons, Bridget Kelley, Bright Roy, C P Sethumadhavan, Chai Eng Law, Chaitanya M P, Chaiti Banerjee, Chandhini Chandran, Charan Karthik, Chayan Debnath, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chetan Kale, Chinmay Bhoyar, Chinmay Sawant, Chirag Munje, Christeena R B, Christopher Escott, Chuck Jensen, Cigi Kuriakose, Clara Correia, Commodore Nvs Raju, D Kishore Kumar, Dambar Kumar Pradhan, Darshan K S, David Raju, David Wright, Debiprasanna Das, Deepal Kalra, Dev Choudhari, Devang Parmar, Devansh Mishra, Devendra 77, Devika Santhosh, Deviprasad Devi, Dhanurjay Kumar, Dhanush Vichu, Dhruba Saikia, Dibyendu Ash, Dilip C Gupta, Dinesh Chaudhary, Dinesh Pundir, Dipak Sinha, Dipankar Dev, Dipika Shenai, Diptanu Debnath, Divin Venu, Diya Sharma, Dombe Pradhan, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Dunna Sekhar, Durgesh Sahu, Ed Stubbs, Eiacp Wii, Elavarasan M, Elveena Nazreth, Emanuel George , Emin Maria Arun, Ezra Rynjah, Faisal Fasaludeen, Fathima Hanna , Gaja Mohanraj, Ganeshwar S V, Gannu 03, Garima Bhatia, Gary Stewart, Gaurav Shonik, Gaurav Singh, Ghani Singh, Ghanshyam Prasad Bhanware, Gireesan Tu, Giri Krishnan, Girishkumar K, Gokulakrishnan G, Gopalakrishna A, Gopika S R, Gottlieb Dandliker, Govind Girija, Gowshikha Rajamani, H Nambiar, Hareesh R Iyer, Hareesha A.S. †’Gkvk, Hari Kumar, Hari Sanker, Harinandan S, Harish Babu M, Harish Kumar Verma, Haritha Babu, Harsha Prashanth, Harshith Jv, Hemanth Byatroy, Hemraj Patil, Hillstar Nature, Himani Singh Khati, Himanshu Baingane, Hriday Brahmbhatt, Ian Davies, Irshad Theba, Isheta Divya , Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Jaichand Johnson, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jayant Jaiswal, Jaydev Mandal, Jeevak Shravasti, Jesan Das, Jisha Rajesh, Jishnu K, Joe M Raja, Joel J Mathew, Jugal Borah, K Murali Krishna, Kalaiselvan V, Kalpana Jayaraman, Kamran Husain, Kanad Baidya, Kanchan -, Kanishka Chaudhari, Karan S, Karle Pranav, Karthikeyan R, Kartik Adake, Kaushik Koli, Kedar Champhekar, Keerthi Mohan, Kessy George , Khemchand Jaiswal, Kilson Kiragori, Kiran Sharma, Kiran Vati K, Kiron Vijay, Kirti Kanta Sethy, Kirubakaran Valayapathi, Kodam Puli, Krishnamoorthy Raju, Krishnendu Das, Krutika Mohanty, Ksheetij Pandey, Kshitija Mankar, Kunan Naik, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika K K, Lathika Anoth, Lathish R Nath, Layeeq Anwar, Lekshmi Jayakumar, Lilan Pradhan, Lokesh Lakhorkar, Lokshiva Pitchuka, Madhavi Babtiwale, Mahalakshmi Chelladurai, Mahender Alpula, Mahendra Hegde, Mahesh Rathod, Mahim B, Malavika Kr, Malavika Malu, Malay Adak, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Mamta Parmar, Manash Pratim, Manasi Mahajan, Manasvee Chaudhary, Mandar Tijare, Manik Dutta, Manishchandra P G, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manoj Pai, Marilyn Tillinghast, Marvelyn Dias, Mary Ekka, Mayuri Jani, Meenakshi P.A, Meenal Alagappan, Mehala Kumar, Micah Rai, Michael Pyle, Mihika Tirmare, Minaxi Buchiya, Miquel Bonet, Mithila Shetty, Mohammed Hirash, Mohammed Jazeel, Mohan Asampalli – Gkvk, Mohan Kumar M, Mohan Raj K., Mohanan Choron, Mohit Sahu, Monica Sri K, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mosam Kumbhare, Mrityunjay Kanwar, Muhammed Rafi, Mukesh Chand, Mukundan Kizhakkemadham, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Nandana Vinayakumar, Narendra Meshram, Narendran M.M, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Naveen Reddy, Navneeth Nambiar, Neha Jadhav, Nesrudheen Pp, Nidheesh Kb, Nidhichand K P, Nihal Mahesh, Niharika Pradhan, Nikhil Jaimon, Nima Tamang, Niranjana Anju, Nishad Eshaal, Nonita Rana, Omkar Joshi, Ouat Campus, P.Kushwanth Sai Kumar, Padma Gyalpo, Palash Phukan, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parmil Kumar, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Patricia Ryan, Paul Pop, Paulami Shukla, Pete Shen, Poornaprajna S N, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhav Benara, Prabhjeet S, Prabhudatta Bal, Prabhudatta Luha, Prachee J, Pradeep C R, Pradeep Kumar Hiremani, Prajwalin Das, Prakash Chitragupta, Pramod Padmanabhan, Pranad Patil, Prasanna Kalita, Prashanth N S, Prashantha Krishna M C, Pratham Shah, Prathamesh Garud, Praveen E C, Praveen Es, Praveen J, Prem Sai Sr, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Premchand Reghuvaran, Prithiv Venkat, Priya Av, Priyam Chattopadhyay, Purva Desai, Pushpa Suresh, Rahul Bavaji, Rahul Chetre, Rahul Kumar (Bipsa), Rahul Wakare, Rahul Yadav, Rajashree Kale, Rajeev Magadi, Rajendra Koranga, Rajkamal Goswami, Raju Kasambe, Rajubhai Patel, Rakesh Dhurwey, Ram Vikas, Ramesh Shenai, Rameshkumar Pradhan, Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman, Ranjana Prasad, Raveendran Kc, Raydhar Nag, Rayis T R, Regin Ross, Reginald Valdar , Rejani P S, Reji Chandran, Renju Tr, Reshma Rai, Reshma Tadvi, Rithan Bopanna K G, Rofikul Islam, Rohan Rai, Rohidas Dagale, Ronith Urs, Rounak Patra, Rozan Dhungel, Rupnarayan Mukherjee, Sachin Krishna M V, Sachin Prabhu, Sachitananda Jena, Sagar Naik, Sahana M, Sahil Shikalgar, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samar Ahmad, Samarendra Chowdhury, Samarth Giri, Samarth Kedilaya, Sameera Shaji, Samir Nama, Samiran Jha, Samish Dhongle, Sancia Morris, Sandeep Kumar Reddy Gangasani, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sandra Shabu, Sangeetha N, Sanghamitra Gouda, Sanjeev Menon, Sanjeev Nalavade, Sanjib Das, Sanjiv Khanna, Sankar V, Santanu Manna, Santhi K, Santhwana Ajith, Sara Fathima Salah, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sarath Sathyan, Sareena Pn, Sathish Kumar Selvam, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Sathyan Meppayur, Satish Muniraju, Saurav Dhungel, Saylee Shelar, Seema Tekam, Senan D’Souza, Sethulakshmi Nair, Sewangi Sewangi, Shajan Shaki, Shakti Vel, Sharad Agrawal, Sharath Kumar G, Sharimon A, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shatakshi Sharma, Shaunak Deshpande, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Sheena S, Shiju Babu, Shilpa Gadgil, Shilpa Shaji, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shivkumar Sahu, Shravani Shende, Shree Raksha, Shreya V Kashyap, Shreya Mishra, Shreyas Joshi, Shrikant Kalamkar, Shubh Yadav, Shubham Giri, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddhant Mhetre, Siddhartha Vineet, Siddhi Damle, Siddhi Kulange, Sindhu Pawar, Sita Kumari Murmu, Siva T, Sivakumar Ak, Sivani Anil, Siya Ul Haque, Sneha Sunil, Somesh Mutnale, Sonali Meravi, Soumya Kundu, Soumya Naik, Soumyadip Mondal, Sourav Mandal, Sova Ghosh, Spoorthi Nagaraju, Sree Vijay, Sreedevi A, Sreejith N, Sreekanth C, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreelal K Mohan, Sri P, Srikanta S, Srinila Mahesh K T, Srinivas Mallela, Srinivas Pasumarti, Sriram Reddy, Steffin Babu, Subbu Subramanya, Subha N, Subhadra Devi, Subhasish Sengupta, Subhra Pakhira, Subramania Siva, Subramanian Sankar, Subramanyam Venkatakrishnan, Sudha Kanjiravalappil, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sudheesh Muraleedharan, Sujay Biswas, Sujith S, Suma Jain M, Sumesh Pb, Sunita Dighe, Supratim Deb, Surabhi Rs, Suraj Bhatia, Suresh Kumar Gopalakrishnan, Susan Myers, Sushant Pawar, Sutirtha Lahiri, Swapnil Padhi, Swathi S, Swati Rahangdale, Swetashree Purohit, Tanmaye Govind, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Tarun Meena, Tarun Menon, Team Bws, Tejas Natu, Theertha Bharath, Tomal Gogoi, Tony Antony, Tripti Ghosh, Tuk Tuk, Uma Arulkumar, Uma D, Umar Mushtaq, Urjit Singh, Uttara Raj, V Sitaram, Vaibhav Patil, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vasi ., Venugopala Prabhu S, Vibhav Tilak, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vidya Raju, Vidyasagar Jagtap, Vigneshwaran B, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikas D Prasad, Vikram S, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vilas Sawant, Vinay Bisen, Vinay Sharma, Violla Rodrigues, Vipin Dhote, Vis M, Vishnu Nandakumar, Vismaya T U, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Rathod, Vivek Rawat, Vivek Sudhakaran, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas, Gopi Yadav, Yadu Prasad, Yash Gaikwad, Yash Gardare.

Congratulations to all these birders!

The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.

From these 581 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Prasanna Kalita who receives  a copy of 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.

Are you doing your best to match the target for March?

Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2024!

Header Image: Great Thick-knee (Great Stone-curlew) Esacus recurvirostris © Yash Kothiala/ Macaulay Library