Breeding of many species continues in July, and we should also see a number of fledgelings and birds in immature plumage in the breaks between the rain. Here is the breakup of birding in India in the month of July 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 920 (995)
Number of lists (all types): 7,600 (8,500)
Number of observations: 1.26 lakh (1.47 lakh)
July challenge
The challenge for July was to upload at least 31 eligible checklists, with at least 15 lists in each half of the month (details at the link above). Of the 920 eBirders in this month, 41 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Ajay Gadikar Anup Prakash Arnold Goveas Arulvelan Thillainayagam CHANDRA BHUSHAN Deepti Krishnan Emanuel george Ganeshwar SV Gurpartap Singh HARSHJEET BAL Himavat Gouresh Jagdish Paithankar JANANI L Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Kiranmayee K Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha Panchapakesan Jeganathan Periyasamy Rajangam |
Pradeepa Sudhakar Praver Mourya Pushpa Puliyeri Rajesh Radhakrishnan Raman Kumar Ramesh Desai Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka SANJEEV NALAVADE Selvaganesh K Shivaprakash Adavanne Sreekumar Chirukandoth Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Surendhar Boobalan vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vinay K L Vinay Nadig |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From the names above, one was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That person is
Vinay K L (see profile)
who receives a copy of Bird Sense, by Tim Birkhead as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for August (5 lists a week, plus exploring new areas)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!
