A new year and lots of new birding! Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in January 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 2,378 (2,002)
Number of lists (all types): 33,600 (20,500)
Number of observations: 6.04 lakh (4.07 lakh)
January challenge
The challenge for January was to survey at least 3 different wetlands and submit the list IDs at the AWC google form (details at the link above). Of the 2,378 eBirders in this month, 41 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Ameet Mandavia Angeline Mano Ankit Badesha Anup Prakash Aravind AM Aravind Amirtharaj Arun B Ashwin Viswanathan Badri Narayanan Thiagarajan Balaji P B Bhanu Sridharan Chirag Munje Chirag Solanki Dayani Chakravarthy dhanapal kondasamy Dhaval Vargiya Dhruba Saikia Divya Subramani Ganeshwar SV Hari Harish |
Jageshwer verma Jayadev Menon Karan Matalia Korada Rajashekaraiah Niranjan Murthy Krishna Murthy krunal trivedi Lakshmikant Neve MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mike Prince Murali DC Prakash G Ravi naidu sahithya selvaraj Santhosh Kshathriya Selvaraj Rangasamy SHESHGIRI BAGDE Sreekumar Chirukandoth Vidhya Sundar Vidhya Swaminathan Vijaya Lakshmi Yogeswarie Sreedharan |
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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
Vidhya Swaminathan (see profile)
who receives a copy of How To Be a (bad) Birdwatcher, by Simon Barnes, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for February (birding during and outside the GBBC)? And there is a new set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
Submitted ….from my side
Met the challenge..don’t know whats wrong…
I did submit the goggle form and shared, but why could this not recognized!?
Me had done Birding and had submitted the list accordingly, but not in the list. Maybe those water bodies/ wetlands are not recognised/official .as per ebird.
Sir, we have not compared against any official list. After birding and uploading the eBird list were you then able to fill out the AWC-India google form, as mentioned in the January challenge announcement? As specified there, we have taken those eBird lists/counts that were entered into the AWC-India google form.
Great efforts of e birders. Birds are documented from different areas. Is there any effort to study from the same area in relation to months/ seasons and years to see whether the climatic changes affect the distribution and density?