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: 10,787 (8,164)
Number of observations: 21 lakhs (15.99 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 1,45,282 (86,628)
Number of species: 1,140 (1,112)
Number of unique lists with media: 8,298 (7,668)
The challenge for February was to upload a minimum of 40 complete checklists and with at least 10 lists to be uploaded during the four days of GBBC. A total of 429 eBirders successfully met this target.
Congratulations to all these birders!
Aaditi Ahire, Aakib Hussain, Aarya Mankar, Abhijit Hota, Abhimanyu A, Abhin M Sunil, Abhinav C, Abhinav Ss, Adarsh Ajay, Adhithya Dj, Aditi Chauhan, Aditya Waje, Afsar Nayakkan, Aiswarya K Saji, Ajay Sarvagnam, Ajla K, Akshatha H K, Alain Barbalat, Aleena Ignatious, Alefiya Saify, Alka Sunil, Alma F, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Amarjyothi Amarendran, Ambady Sasi, Amee Vyas, Amit Thakur, Ampady Sugathan, Amrit Raha The_Amritography, Amsa Am, Anagha Jose, Anamika Babu, Anand Singh, Ananya R Anil, Andreas Uppstu, Aneena R, Aneesh A, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Bhaduri , Anish Bera, Anjali Pande, Ankush Nirmalkar, Anna Hoover, Annie Feby, Anshuman Pradhan, Anthony Lawrence, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Anurupa Shil, Aparna Mohan, Aparna S, Apurba Sonowal, Arathi Raveendran, Aravind Amirtharaj, Ardra Raju, Arjun Suresh , Arnav Borhade, Arshad Ashraf, Arun Gurung, Arun M D, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Ashish Chandran, Ashit Parida, Ashly A, Ashok Agarwal, Ashtamy R, Ashwati Biju, Asif Shereef, Aswanth M, Aswathi Shibu, Avinash Bhagat, Avinash Phatak, Avishkar Munje, Ayush P Nair, Azhar Muhammed, Baharuddin Sk, Baranidharan S, Barbara Churchley, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhauli Rane, Bijoy Venugopal, Bikash Dalbot Shira, Bipasha Pan, Bipsa Ebirding, Blessy Tereena Dcruz, Bonyabondhu Kamrup, Bryan Baker, Buck Lee, C P Sethumadhavan, Cathy Wisel, Chai Eng Law, Chaiti Banerjee, Chayan Debnath, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chinmay Bhoyar, Chinmay Sk, Chirag Munje, Chitra Shanker, Chitradevi Paramasivam, Chris Huber, Dalveer Singh, Daniel Arias-Cruzatty @Urban_Ornis, Daniel Branch, Darshan N, Deepanathan V, Deepen Khatiwoda, Dev Choudhari, Dhaval Vargiya, Dhruba Saikia, Dibyendu Ash, Dijumon Kp, Dinesh Patil, Dipak Sinha, Dipankar Dev, Diptanu Debnath, Divyaraj Shah, Diya Sharma, Diya Singh, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Jisha Rs, Dr Kavita Bandivadekar, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Dr. Vivek Vaidyanathan, Eloy Viteri, Emanuel George , Eswara Moorthy, Ethna Beatriz, Ezra Rynjah, Faisal Fasaludeen, Farida Sultana, Fathima Nizar, Feba Ks, Fermin Jose, Fulchand Shiv, Gaja Mohanraj, Ganeshwar S V, Ganga G. Prasannan, Gani Khatri, Gani Sama, Garima Bhatia, Garry Bhatti, Gaurav Sinha, Gavin Lobo, Gayatri Kakade, Girish Kumar, Gopi Raji, Gopika K V, Gopika R, Gopika Suresh, Gottlieb Dandliker, Gouthaman K R, Gurukumar Ramanathan, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hari Mavelikara, Harinandan S, Hariprasad M, Harish Sharma, Harsimran Singh Jaswalography, Hridya V P, Irshad Theba, Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Jagrut Rindani, Jalmesh Karapurkar, Janardhan Uppada, Janne Aalto, Jason Estep, Jayadev Menon, Jayati Mitra, Jaydev Mandal, Jayu Munje, Jesse Manu, Jigmat Ladol, Joe Wujcik, Joel Mathews, Joel Rodrigues, Jugal Borah, Kaimal Kumar Kallapelli, Kamran Husain, Kanishka Chaudhari, Kaustubh Rau, Kavish Shah, Kedar Champhekar, Ketan Turakhia, Kilson Kiragori, Kiran Bisht, Kiran K Pardeshi, Kiran Vati K, Kirti Kanta Sethy, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishnamoorthy Raju, Krishnendu Das, Ksheetij Pandey, Kshitija Mankar, Kuldip Topo, Kunan Naik, Kunaparaju Shanmukha Varma, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Lenard S, Leons Mathew Abraham, Lilan Pradhan, Linda Wujcik, Lineysha Sarma, Lokesh Lakhorkar, Lokshiva Abhijay Pitchuka, Madhu Gupta, Mahender Alpula, Mahesh Rathod, Malavika Kr, Malavika Malu, Manash Borah, Manash Pratim, Manasi Mahajan, Mandar Tijare, Manik Dutta, Manju Sinha, Mansi Charthal, Manu Maneesh, Marie Connors, Mary Ekka, Mayuri Jani, Megha Kothadia, Mehala Kumar, Merlin J Antony, Micah Rai, Mike Baker, Mohammed Jazeel, Mohina Macker, Mohit Sahu, Moovendan Ramalingam, Muhammed Shinas S, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Nalsarovar Tayab Alvani, Nandana M S, Narendra Mupparaju, Narendran M.M, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Naveena Bedsy Anand, Nayan Sirtawar, Neelam Gurav, Neeta Gandhi, Niharika Pradhan, Nimisha B, Nishad Eshaal, Novelkumar M S, Nydya Naroth, Om Raut, Onam Tirmare, Oygan J, P.Kushwanth Sai Kumar, Padma Gyalpo, Pallab Saikia, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parag Kokane, Parth Garje, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Patrick Albrecht, Paul Pop, Paulami Shukla, Pawan Dhall, Polycarp Joseph, Pooja Purohit, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhav Benara, Prabhudatta Bal, Prachi Damle, Pradeep C R, Pradeep Dobhal, Pranad Patil, Prasanna Kalita, Prasenjit Bhattacharjee, Pratik Baviskar, Pratik Hichami, Praveen E C, Prayes Mohandas, Premchand Reghuvaran, Prodip Sarder – Tribesmen.In, Pronoy Baidya, Rachita Priyadarshini Sahoo, Rahul Baruah, Rahul Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Rahul Mondal, Rahul Wakare, Rajat Sahoo, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Rajorshi Ghosh, Raju Pasalkar, Rakesh Dhurwey, Ram Rsnv, Ramesh Shenai, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Rasheeda Mol, Ratheesh Rajan, Ravi Kavungal, Rayis T R, Regin Ross, Reji Chandran, Renju Tr, Reshma Malu, Rita Khandekar, Rofikul Islam, Rozan Dhungel, Rushabh Kodwate, Ryan S, Sabyasachi Jena, Sachin Krishna M V, Sachin Prajapati, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samarendra Chowdhury, Sambeet Puhan, Sambhav Bose, Samir Nama, Samish Dhongle, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sandra Chandran, Sanghamitra Gouda, Sanjib Das, Sanjiv Khanna, Sanju Sunny, Santanu Manna, Santhi K, Santosh Kumar Verma, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sarah Dettman, Sarash Yadav, Sargam Vipinkumar, Sarthy Prasanth, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Sathyan Meppayur, Satya Sidharth Das, Saurav Deshmukh, Savia Dsouza, Sayanta Basak, Selvaganesh K, Senila Senal, Shailendra Badonia, Shakti #Name?, Shalmali Nalawade, Shamika Mahamuni, Sharath Kumar G, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivam Kumar, Shivam Tiwari, Shivani Kadam, Shivnath Kumar Mnhs, Shlaghana Jain, Shraddha Gade, Shubham Giri, Shuvendu Das, Shwetha Bharathi, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddhant Mhetre, Siddhanta Kumar Mohanta, Sidharth R, Siji Pk, Sivakumar Ak, Sivani Anil, Siya Ul Haque, Smitha Shankar, Sonam Angmo Ll, Soubhagya Mohanty, Soumendra Mukhopadhyay, Soumya Aon, Sourav Mandal Ðÿª½, Souvick Mukherjee, Sova Ghosh, Sreejith N, Sreekanth C, Sreekanth M, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreelakshmi Renesan, Sreelal K Mohan, Sri P, Srinila Mahesh K T, Sriram Reddy, Subha N, Subhadra Devi, Subham Prakash, Subhash Ghule, Subith 123, Subramania Siva, Sudha Kanjiravalappil, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sudheesh Muraleedharan, Sudip Simha, Sumesh Pb, Sunita Dighe, Suraj Ingole, Suzie Snyder, Syed Arnab Aleem, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Team Bws, Tejas S Nair, Thabsheera C, Thejas Kt, Tilak Dhungel, Tor Svanoe, Tuk Tuk, V Sitaram, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vaibhav Patil, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vesa Jouhki, Vidhya Sundar, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vidula Kulkarni, Vigneshwaran B, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vineeth Kumar, Vinoth Balasubramanian, Vipin Kumar, Vishnu Ts, Vishnupuram Birding Circle, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vyom Vyas, Yadnesh Bhuyarkar, Yash Gardare.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 429 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Rozan Dhungel who receives a who receives a T-shirt (Endemic Birds of India) as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you on checked the eBird India challenge for March? Don’t forget to add ‘wetland’ in the checklist comments for lists made at waterbodies.
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis © Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok / Macaulay Library
