June brings welcome rain to many parts of the country, and a number of species are in full breeding activity, so it is a very interesting month for birding. Here is the breakup of birding in India in the month of June 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 995 (1,207)
Number of lists (all types): 8,500 (11,300)
Number of observations: 1.47 lakh (2.0 lakh)
June challenge
The challenge for June was to upload at least 30 eligible checklists, with at least three of them containing a brood-parasitic cuckoo (details at the link above). Of the 995 eBirders in this month, 46 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Ajay Gadikar Ankit Vikrant Anup Prakash Arnold Goveas Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arundev G Ashwin Viswanathan David Raju Deepti Krishnan Dr. NISHAD PM Emanuel george Gurpartap Singh Hareesha AS HARSHJEET BAL Jageshwer verma JANANI L Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala |
Panchapakesan Jeganathan Periyasamy Rajangam Pradeepa Sudhakar Praver Mourya Pushpa Puliyeri Rajesh Prasad Rajesh Radhakrishnan Raman Kumar Ramesh Desai Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka SANJEEV NALAVADE Sanjiv Khanna Selvaganesh K Shailja Mamgain Shasank Ongole Sreekumar Chirukandoth Subhadra Devi Taukeer Alam Lodha VASEN SULI Venugopalan R Vidhya Sundar Vinay K L |
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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
Shailja Mamgain
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 July (at least 31 lists, spread through the month)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!
THANKS TO ALL OF THEM. I HOPE THIS TEAM WILL DO THE GOOD JOB AND WILL FIND THE NEW THINGS OF THE BIRD WORLD.LALIT KUMAR SINGH