As heavy rains persisted throughout much of India in July, fewer people went birding than in May & June. Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in July by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 2,542 (2,872)
Number of observations: 3.4 lakh (4.4 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 21,657 (29340)
Number of species: 874 (908)
Number of lists with media: 2,280 (2,593)
July Challenge:
The eBird monthly challenge for July was to upload at least 31 lists–15 lists in the first half of the month and at least 16 lists in the second half.
A total of 100 birders met the target. (These are excluding group accounts and those with no identifiable name):
Many congratulations to all of them!
Adil Ali, Ajay Sarvagnam, Am Amsa, Amrit Raha, Anamika Chandran, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Kundu, Ankush Nirmalkar, Anonymous Anonymous, Anonymous Anonymous, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Arun George, Arun Prabhu, Ashok Agarwal, Ashok Kolluru, Ashwin Viswanathan, Avinash Sharma, Bhavishya C M, Bijoy Venugopal, Chai Eng Law, Chayan Debnath, Cheran Jagadeesan, Debashis Chowdhury, Dhanapal Kondasamy, Dhruba Saikia, Dipak Sinha, Dipankar Dev, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Elavarasan M, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Gaja Mohanraj, H Nambiar, Hardik Dayal, Harikrishnan C P, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshith Jv, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Joseph Melkis Raja, Karthikeyan R, Kishore P, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishnendu Das, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Madhu Gupta, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Mohan Asampalli, Mohit Sahu, Moovendan Ramalingam, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Praveen Bennur, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Rahul Singh, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Ramesh Shenai, Regin Ross, Sahana M, Sajeev Krishnan, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samir E, Sandhya Lenka, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddharthsinh Sisodiya, Siva T, Snehes Bhoumik, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Srinivas Mallela, Sriram Reddy, Subhadra Devi, Subramania Siva, Sudip Simha, Sujith Vs, Supriya Kulkarni, Sushant Pawar, Tarachand Bairwa, V Gouthama, Vaishnavi S, Vasen Suli, Vasi , Venus Joshi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vivekananda K.
From these 100 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Tarachand Bairwa who receives a T-shirt (Endemic Birds of India) as a small gift in appreciation!
Are you birding towards the August 2022 eBird challenge– uploading at least 20 lists with behaviour comments and breeding codes?
And of course, there are also the yearlong challenges for 2022! A list of challenges at the global level can be seen here.
Header Image: Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus © Rajkumar Das/ Macaulay Library
