June saw less birding compared to May. It could be because of the heat or rains in many places or the absence of birding events. Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in June by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 2,872 (3,535)
Number of observations: 4.4 lakh (5.6 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 29340 (34,084)
Number of species: 908 (1,019)
Number of lists with media: 2,593 (3,278)
June Challenge:
The eBird monthly challenge for June is to submit 30 eligible checklists, with at least three of them containing a brood-parasitic cuckoo.
A total of 170 birders met the target. (These are excluding group accounts and those with no identifiable name):
Many congratulations to all of them!
Abu Birder, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alen Alex, Alok Nagdev, Am Amsa, Amee Vyas, Amitabh Chhajlani, Amrit Raha, Anamika Chandran, Ananya Deshkar, Ananyaa Dobhal, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Kundu, Anjali Bhaskar, Anjali Krishna, Ankita Shukla, Ankush Nirmalkar, Anoop Nair, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Archana Jha, Arun Prabhu, Ashish Bareth, Ashok Agarwal, Ashok Kolluru, Ashwin Viswanathan, Ayan Yogesh Watve, Bamin Chada, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Bijoy Venugopal, Chai Eng Law, Chandrasen Kori, Chayan Debnath, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chintan Sheth, Chitra Shanker, Debashis Chowdhury, Deepak Gujar, Deepali Watve, Devarajan Narayanan, Dhanapal Kondasamy, Dhruba Saikia, Dipankar Dev, Dr Jishnu R, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Archana Shukla, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Elavarasan M, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Gopi Krishnamurthy, H Nambiar, Hardik Dayal, Harikrishnan C P, Harish Dobhal, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshith Jv, Hemanya Radadia, Ikshan Ganpathi, Janardhan Uppada, Janhvi Gupta, Jayadev Menon, Jim Panwar, Joseph Melkis Raja, Karthik Thrikkadeeri, Karthikeyan R, Khalid Khan, Kiran Pardeshi, Kishore P, Koj Mama, Krishna Prasad Ramanand, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Loukika Neve, Madhu Gupta, Mani Mk, Manish Kewat, Manjula Desai, Manoj Jain, Manoj Karingamadathil, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Manoj Pai, Maria Fernandes, Mariam Ahmed, Mehala Kumar, Meruva Naga Rajesh, Milind Sawdekar, Mohan Asampalli, Mohit Sahu, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mrunali Raut, Mukundan Kizhakkemadham, Navya Vyas, Nigin Babu, Nitin Hunnalli, Nitish Gupta, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Pradhyumn Yadav, Prakruthi Gm, Pranad Patil, Praveen Bennur, Praveen Velayudhan, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Rahul Singh, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Panwar, Rajesh Prasad, Ramaswamy V, Ramesh Shenai, Ramit Singal, Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman, Regin Ross, Renju Tr, Reshma Rai, Revathi Cm, Rohit Kokil, Rudresh Parsekar, Sahana M, Sailendra Punukollu , Sajeev Krishnan, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samir E, Samish Dhongle, Sandeep Nayak, Sandhya Lenka, Sanjay Pawar, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Seema Tekam, Sharad Apte, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shino Jacob Koottanad, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siva T, Snehes Bhoumik, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Srinivas Mallela, Steffin Babu, Subhadra Devi, Sudip Simha, Sujith Vs, Supriya Kulkarni, Susanta Mukherjee, Sushant Pawar, Tarachand Bairwa, Urjit Singh, Vaibhav Patil, Vaishnavi S, Vasen Suli, Vasi, Venkatesh S, Venus Joshi, Vidhya Sundar, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vinay K L, Vishal Mistry, Vivek Rawat, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas.
From these 170 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Deepak Gujar who receives a T-shirt (Endemic Birds of India) as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you birding towards the July 2022 eBird challenge– spreading your birding throughout 31 days of July in a certain way. See here for more details.
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: Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus © Amitava Ganguly/ Macaulay Library
