February 6, 2017

January 2017 eBirders of the month

ebirding-challenge-logo-800px-281x300A new year, a new beginning, and a refreshed commitment to birds and birding! Birding activity in the winter, and especially in January and February, tends to be higher than at any other time in the year; so before  announcing the results of the monthly challenge, let’s look at the break-up of eBirding in India in January (with previous month in brackets).

 

Number of birders: 1,450 (1,095)
Number of lists (all types): 19,020 (10,730)
Number of lists (complete, 15min or longer): 14,570 (8,660)
Number of observations: 3.81 lakh (2.45 lakh)

January challenge

The challenge for January was to upload at least 25 eligible birdlists from the month. Of the 1,450 eBirders in January, and impressive 139 met or exceeded the target for the month. They are (as always, excluding group accounts)and in small font this month:

Abhishek Ravindra
Aisha Sultana
Ajay Gadikar
Alan Knue
AM Amsa
Andrew Johnson
Aniruddha Ghosh
Anish Aravind
Ankit Rajotia
Ankit Vikrant
Anne Sammis & Eric Gropp
Arabinda Pal
Aravind Amirtharaj
Arnold Goveas
Arun B
Arun M K Bharos
Ayush Rajotia
Balaji P B
Balwant Negi
Bhanu Sridharan
Bijumon KE
B.R. Ansil
Brodie Lewis
Cheran Jagadeesan
Chirag Munje
Dayani Chakravarthy
Deepa Chandran
Deepa Mohan
Deepthi Chimalakonda
Divin Murukesh
Dr George P J
Elavarasan M
Erle Brito
Gaja Mohanraj
Ganeshwar S V
Garima Bhatia
Gauri Achari
Gokul Vadivel
Govind Girija
Gowthama Poludasu
Hari Mavelikara
Harsha Jayaramaiah
Harshjeet Bal
Hemanth Byatroy
Howie Fischer
Indira Srinivasan
Jagadeesan Krishnan
Jaichand Johnson
Jamaludheen Karivelil
Jan Hansen
Javed Ahmed
Jayadev Menon
Jaydev Mandal
Jishnu Payyanur
John Fitzpatrick
Kadambari Devarajan
Kalaimani Ayuthavel
Kamalanathan A
Karthikeyan Ponnambalamoorthy
Kaustubh Rau
Kiron Vijay
Kishore Kumaran S
Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan
Lakshmikant Neve
Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan
Latha Prabhakaran
Madhusudhan Srinivasan
Mamta Parmar
Manan Singh Mahadev
Mandar Bhagat
Manju Sinha
Max Breckenridge
Mike Prince
Mittal Gala
Mohandas Giriyappa
Monica Kaushik
Mukundan Kizhakkemadham
Murugesh Natesan
Nalini Aravind
Namassivayan Lakshmanan
Niranjan A
Omkar Dharwadkar
Panchapakesan Jeganathan
Pankaj Gupta
Payal Mehta
Pooja Pawar
Prashanth N S
Prashant Kumar
Premchand Reghuvaran
Priya Darshini
Pronoy Baidya
Raja Bandi
Rajashree Khalap
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Raman Kumar
Ramit Singal
Raphy Kallettumkara
Renju TR
Rofikul Islam
Rohit Naniwadekar
Sahana M
Sahas Barve
Sandeep Sathyan
Sandhya Lenka
Sangita Mani
Sanjay Sondhi
Sanjiv Khanna
Sasidharan Manekkara
Sathyan Meppayur
Saurabh Agrawal
Selvaganesh K
Shah Jahan
Shakti Vel
Shanmugam Kalidass
Shwetha Bharathi
Sivakumar S
Siva T
Somoyita sur
Sreekumar Chirukandoth
Sreekumar E R
Steffin Babu
Subhadra Kondreddy
Subramanian R
Suhel Quader
Sumesh B
Surendhar Boobalan
Swamy N R
Swapna Lawrence
Syamili Manoj
Vaishnav S
Venugopalan R
Vidhya Sundar
Vinay Nadig
Vinod Shankar
Vishnupriyan Kartha
Vishnu Vinod
Vivek Puliyeri
Vrinda Lath
Yousaf Olavilam
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Many congratulations to all of them!

Eligible lists of all these 139 birders were put into a single pool, and one list was drawn at random from the pool. This was repeated until we found a list that contained rich media. The list was this one, and the person thus chosen to receive a small gift is Divin Murukesh who receives a copy of Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, by Kenn Kaufman.

Gap-filling challenge

The gap-filling challenge for January was to upload a minimum of four eligible checklists from any one or more of the 300 Districts that were represented by less than 30 minutes of eBirding in all previous Januarys. A total of 225 complete birdlists of 15 min or longer were uploaded from 51 of the 300 target Districts, by 73 birders. Of these, 13 birders met the target for the gap-filling challenge, and these are listed below, together with names of the districts they uploaded 4 or more lists from):

Alan Knue (RJ-Jalor)
Ashish Loya (UP-Muzaffarnagar)
Chetna Sharma (HR-Kurukshetra)
Gowthama Poludasu (AP-Prakasam)
Madhusudhan Srinivasan (TS-Warangal)
Malay Mandal (SK-North Sikkim)
Pia Sethi (NL-Zunheboto)
Sandhya Lenka (OR-Jagatsinghapur)
Sanjay Sondhi (NL-Zunheboto)
Sanjiv Khanna (PB-Jalandhar)
Somraj Gupta (SK-North Sikkim)
S S Cheema (NL-Dimapur)
Sumanta Pramanick (SK-North Sikkim)

Many thanks to all of them for helping fill eBird gaps in India!

One person from these 13 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift. That person is Chetna Sharma who receives a copy of How to be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes.

Here is the full list of all 1,450 eBirders from India in January 2017:

Aaditya S Kumar, Aakash Shejwal, Aashutosha Lele, abha manohark, Abhay Hule, Abhay Sharma, Abhijeet Avate, Abhijeet Jagtap, Abhijeet Sawant, abhijith a.p.c, Abhijith surendran, Abhik Das, ABHILASH Gowda , Abhilash K, Abhimanyu Aradhya, Abhinav R, Abhin M Sunil, Abhirami M Jayakumar, Abhiram Sankar, Abhirup Khara, Abhishek ., abhishek gopal, Abhishek Jamalabad, Abhishek Maiya, abhishek ravindra, Abijith Ka, Abinaya G, Abinesan S, Able Lawrence, Adarsh U G, Adhithyan NK, Adhithyan NK, Adithya Bhat, Aditi Iyer, Aditi Mukherjee, Aditi Shah, Aditi V, Aditya Banerjee, Aditya Kerkar, Adnan Raja, Advait Swami, Afshan Husain, ahmedabad birdrace, Aidan Fonseca, Aisha Sultana, Ajay Gadikar, Ajay kashyap, Ajinkya Supekar, ajin reji, Ajit A, AJU RAJU, AKHILA P, Akhilesh Magal, Akhilesh Sharma , akhil johny, Akila A, Akil Kaveri, Akshay Mokal, Akshay Onkar, Akshay R, Akshay Surendra, Alagu Ravichandran, Alan Knue, Albert relton, Albin Jacob, Aljo Anand, al kirkley, Alok Jagdale, Amal U S, AM AMSA, Ameet Mandavia, Ameya Deshpande, Amey Joshi, Amey Ketkar, Amith46v Rao, Amith Kumar, Amith Rao, Amit kaushik, Amlan Goswami, Amogh Rajappa, Amol Bapat, Amol Lopes, amol mande, Anand Meherwade, ANAND Osuri, Anand Pendharkar, Anantha Krishnan.K, Ananthu V Sudhakaran, anant pande, Anbu Sundararajan, Andaman Avians Club, Ander Buckley, André Weiss, Andrew Hart, Andrew Johnson, Aneesh Sasidevan, Angalan Rangasamy, Aniketa Kabir, Anil Mahajan, Anil Subramaniam, Anindya Naskar, Aniruddha Ghosh, anirudh Kamakeri, Anirudh Kamakeri, anisha jayadevan, Anish Aravind, Anisha Velayudhan.K, Anish Mohan Thampi, Anjali J, anjana hari, Anjitha Devarajan, Ankita chowdhury, ankita patel, ankita sinha, Ankit Rajotia , Ankit Vikrant, Ankul Shetty, Ankur Goel, Anne Sammis & Eric Gropp, Anoop CR, Anoop Raj, Anubhab Hota, Anuja Mital, Anu john, Anuj Saikia, Anup Chavda, Anup Nagesh, Anuradha Krishnan, Anurag Chandak, Anurag Nashirabadkar, Anurag Vishwakarma, Anushka Kale, Anushreedha Sivanandan , anvitha s, Aparajita Datta, Aparna K, aparna s, Appavu Pavendhan, Apurva Chawre, Apurva Patil, Arabinda Pal, aravinda hr, Aravind AM, Aravind Amirtharaj, Archit Hardikar, Aristo Mendis, Arjun CP, Arjun Dev , Arjun Kannan, Arjun S Menon, Arnab Pal, Arnav Anish, Arnold Goveas, Aromal Vaikom, Arpit Deomurari, Arpitha Jayanth, Arpit Kamat , Arsalan Ali Raza, Arul Paradise, Arunachala pandian, Arun Arun, Arun B, Arun C.G, Arun Chikkamarappa, Arun Chungappally , Arundev G, Arunima J, Arun kumar, Arun kumar B K , Arun Kumar Mathivaanan, arun lal, Arun Mani, Arun M K Bharos, Arun Prabhu, Arun Singh, Arun Varghese, Arun Venkataramanan, Arup Banerjee, Arya Vinod, ASHA SOHIL, Ashcharya Rishi, Ashik Musicroom, Ashin Rita TA, Ashish Babre, Ashish Bhatt, Ashish Chaudhari, Ashish Chavda, Ashish Gupta, Ashish Jangid, Ashish Jha, Ashish Loya, Ashish Nambiar, Ashish Pandey, Ashis Kumar Pradhan, Ashni Dhawale, Ashraf Shaikh, Ashutosh Chirmule, Ashwin Bhat, Ashwin Deshpande, Ashwini Kumar Bhat, ashwin mohan, Asiem Sanyal, Asif Khan, Asish Mangalasseri, ASLAM MOHAMMED, ATANU MODAK, Atharva Kambli, Athena Georgiou, Athira K Nair, Athira Ravi, Atreyee Mitra, AVINASH DEV, Avinash K Mon, Avinash Sharma, Avinash Yadav, Avi Sabavala, Avishkar Munje, AWC Kerala, AWC Pathanamthitta, Ayush Rajotia, Babu santhanakrishnan, Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan, BALA BHARATHI, Balaji P B, Balaji venkateswaran, balakrishnan ram, Bala S., Balasubramanian Sreenivasan, Balwant Negi, BangaloreBirdRace bbr, Bangalore Waterbird Census 2017, bapu behera, Bela Arora, Bhakti Salgaonkar, Bhanu Prakash, Bhanu Sridharan, Bharathidasan Subbiah, BHARATI CHATURVEDI, Bharat Kaneria, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Bhaskar pandeti, Bhavesh Rathod, Biang Syiem, BIBIN PAUL, bijumon ke, Bimal Modi, Bimalnath Punnassery, Bipin Bhosale , biplab Bose, Bird Atlas Kannur (Group Account), Bird Atlas Palakkad (Group Account), Bird Atlas Thrissur (Group Account), Bird Snappers, Birds Of Thane & Raigad District Group Account, Biruntha S, Biswajit Chakdar, Biswajit De, Biswanath Mondal, Biswapriya Rahut, bivash kirtania, Blesso Yesudian, Bopanna Pattada, B.R. Ansil, Brodie Lewis, Bruce McKinlay, Buddi Laxmi Narayana, bulbul muruges, Catherene Christian, Celina D’Souza, Chaatak Nature Conservation Society, Chagsaa odonjavkhlan, Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy , CHANDRA BHUSHAN, Chandra S, Chandra Sekhar Bandi, charles naveen, Charutha K, Chayant Gonsalves, Cheran Jagadeesan, chetan harikishandas joshi, Chetna Sharma, Chinmay Rahane, CHINMOY BANERJEE, Chirag Munje, chithrabhanu pakaravoor, Chitra Patel, Chris Bowden, Cinchona GHS(Group account), CLAREENA JOSE, Clint Joseph, CNS Nature, Colin Braganza, C Ponnusamy, Dakshina Sudhir, Darshan Mujumdar, Dattaram Phadte, David Barton, david stanton, Dayani Chakravarthy, Debashis Chowdhury, Debjyoti Dasgupta, Deepa Chandran, Deepa Javdekar, Deepak Balasubramanian, deepak dhakad , Deepak Jois, Deepak Mani Tripathi, Deepak Sahu, Deepa Mohan, Deepan Benedict , Deepika Karanth, Deepthi Chimalakonda, denzil britto, Deval Kadam, Devaram t, Devathi Parashuram, Devika Sanghamithra, Devu Mohanebird, Dhananjai Mohan, Dhanesh Ayyappan, Dhaval Vargiya, dhirendra devrani, Dhirendra Devrani, dhiren malani, Dhruba Saikia, Dhyey Shah, Dibyendu Mukherjee, Dilip K G, Dilip Virkhade, Dincy Mariyam, Dinesh kumar, Dinesh Pundir, Dinesh Singal, dipak bowalkar, Dipak Sinha, Dipu Karuthedathu, Divin Murukesh, Divya Mudappa, Divyapriya Chandrasekaran, Divyesh Ghervada, DIWAKAR N R, Douglas Ball, Dp Srivastava, Dr George P J, Dr. Jayant Wadatkar, Dr.Krishna kumar. 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Williamson, George Tom, Ginu George, Girisha Shreenithi, Girish Chonkar, Girish Jathar, GirishMohan P K, Gnanaskandan Kesavabharathi, Gnaneswar Ch, Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj, Gokul Kannan, Gokul Krishna, Gokul Vadivel, Gollala Benakanalli, Gopalakrishna R, Gopal bhagavatula, Gopal Bhaskaran, Gopal Khanal, Gopika Varrier, Gourav Kumar Mishra, GOVIND GIRIJA, Gowthaman K.a, Gowthama Poludasu, Gowtham Radhakrishnan, G Parameswaran, greeshma paleeri, Guhan Sundar, Gyanendra Pandey, Hajee Mohamed, Hakimuddin F Saify, HANNA THOMAS, Hanuman Gawas, hardik kalavadiya, Hariharan I.S., Hari Hariharan, Hari Krishna Adepu, Harikrishnan S, hari kumar, HARI MAVELIKARA, Harish Chandra, HARISH K, Harish Prakash, Harman Kour, Harpal singh, HARSHADA GAUNS, Harshada Kulkarni, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harsha Kumar, harsha nr, Harshavardhan Jamakhandi, Harsh Buty, HARSHITA PRAKASH, Harshith JV, HARSHJEET BAL, Heam chandar, Hemali Dave Upadhyay, Hemal Naik, Hemanth Byatroy, Hemant Khedkar, Hemant Kirola, hemant kumar, Hemanya Radadia, hemraj duraiswami, HG Prashanthakumar, Himadri Banerjee, himanshu tembhekar, Hitesh Chawla, Hopeland P, Howie Fischer, Hridhya K S, Hrishikesh Dani, Hrishikesh Wandrekar, Hrudananda Behera, Husein Latif, Hyderabad Birding Pals, Idris Ahmed, IHS Birding Club, ILOVE BIRDS, Indhupriya Arunachalam, Indira Srinivasan, Induchoodan A Sreedharan, Irene Daniel, Irshad Theba, irvin calicut, Ishani Vivek, Jadeswamy Madaiah, Jafer Palot, Jagadeesan Krishnan, Jagadeesan Krishnan , Jaganathan Mohan , jagrut rindani, Jaichand Johnson, Jamaludheen Karivelil, Jameela Parampatt, James Williams, Janet Bodle, Jan Hansen, Janhavi Rajan, Janhvi Vyas, Jaspreet Kaur , Jaswinder Waraich, Javed Ahmed, Jayachandran E S, Jayadev Menon, Jayakrishnan U, jayant atrey, Jayan Thomas, jaya peter, jayaprakash m t, Jaya Rakesh Kannan, Jaydev Mandal, Jayesh Ghanekar, Jayesh Padichal, Jayu Munje, Jaywant Karajgikar, Jeetendra Chaware, Jeffin John, Jenny Bowman, Jesin Ahamed, Jessica Luis, Jeswin Kingsly , Jeyakumar Johnson, Jeyanth J, Jigu Patel, Jiju Vinod, Jincy Justin j.k., Jishnu Payyanur, Jishnu R, jithesh pai, Job Joseph, JOE MRAJA, John Daniel, John Fitzpatrick, John Joseph Chelladurai, John Ravindran, JOHN RICHARD THOMAS, jolly kv, Jomon Koshy, joseph ND, Joshua Dharmaraj, joshua Dsilva, joydip mukherjee, Judith Heyer, juee khopkar, JUGAL PATEL, Jyothish Nelson, Kaajal Dasgupta, Kabir Rao Deb, Kadambari Devarajan, Kahini Chilukuri, Kailash Prasad, Kalaimani Ayuthavel , KALAYARASSY G, Kalpalata Rajan, kalpana malani, Kalyan Varma, Kamalanathan A, Kamal Hari Menon, Kanad Baidya, Kanak Bali Singh, kanishka manickaraj, Kannan U L, Karthik CV, Karthik Enumulla, Karthikeyan G B, Karthikeyan Ponnambalamoorthy, Karthik S, Karthik Teegalapalli, Karthik Thrikkadeeri , Kartik Kumar P., Kartik Pomal, Karunakanth Bathula, Karunakar Rayker, karun g, Kashish Madan, Kashyap R, Katheryn Barton, Kaushal Patel, Kausthubh K Nair, Kaustubh Rau, Kavin SG, Kedar Champhekar, Ketaki Karandikar, Ketan Shah, Kezia Kuruvilla, Khushboo ., Kiera Carvalho, Kingsley David, Kiran bagade, Kiran Kashyap, kiran more, Kiron Vijay, Kirubhanandhini V, Kishore Kumaran S, Kishore P, Kishore Raj, Kit Britten, Kole Birders, Komal Agrawal, Kranti Singh, K Ratnam, Krishna Deepak, Krishna Girish, Krishna moorthy, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishna Murthy, Krishnamurthy Vijaykumar, Krishnapriya Tamma, Krishnaveni K, Krti Tallam, K.Sravan Kumar, Kuang-Ping Yu, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Kuldeep Chaudhari, Kumaraswamy BR, Kumar RR, Kunal NS, kushal adaki, kuttettan munnar, Lakshmikant Neve, Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan, lakshmipathi ks, Lalita Ashtekar, Lalit Pai, Latha Prabhakaran, Lawrence Mathappan, Lekshmi Bhooshan, Lekshmi Jayakumar, Lekshmi R, Leonard Rebello, Lingaraja Venkatesh, Lloyd Fernandes, Logan Derderian, lokesh tardalkar, mabel menezes, Madavan Ravi, Madhurima Das, madhushri mudke, Madhusudhan Srinivasan, Mahesh madhu, Mainak Das, maithreyi m r, MAITREYA SUKUMAR, Malay Mandal, Malhar 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Are you doing your best to match the target for February (20 eligible birdlists, with at least 3 shared during the GBBC — 17-20 Feb)? And do remember that we have a new set of there is also a set of yearlong challenges for 2017 to bird towards!


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