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: 3,235 (3,718)
Number of observations: 4.4 lakh (5.6 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 29,175 (36,079)
Number of species: 925 (1,060)
Number of lists with media: 2,597 (3,427)
The challenge for June was to upload 30 checklists, with at least five of them containing a brood-parasitic cuckoo. A total of 180 birders met the target!
Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Ahmad Faiz Mustafa, Ajay Gadikar, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alok Nagdev, Am Amsa, Ambady Sasi, Amit Subhash Khare, Amrit Raha, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anish Bera, Anitha Muthusamy, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Archana Jha, Ashok Agarwal, Ashok Kolluru, Ashwin Viswanathan, Ashwini Bedekar, Ayan Watve, Bhamini Pande, Bhavishya C M, Bhuvan Raj K, Bijoy Venugopal, Birder Baba, Chai Eng Law, Chaitanya M P, Chayan Debnath, Clara Correia, Darshan Chauhan, Deepali Watve, Deepesh Uikey, Digvijay Singh Rathore, Dinesh Karena, Dipankar Dev, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr Sudhir Jain , Dr. Adil A, Elavarasan M, Francis D’Souza, Ganeshwar S V, Gaurav Nigam, Gayomini Panagoda, Ghanshyam Prasad Bhanware, Guru Prasad, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hareesha A.S., Harikrishnan C P, Harshith Jv, Isheta Divya , Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jeev Guha, Joe M Raja, Joshika Tanujakumar, Kamal Kishinani, Karthikeyan R, Keerthi Priya, Kiran K Pardeshi, Krishna Maywad, Krishnendu Das, Kshitij Nagdev, Kunal Kadam, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Madhu Chandran, Madhu Gupta, Madhur Upadhyay, Mahendra Hegde, Manash Pratim, Manish Kewat, Manish Soni, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Mayank Namdeo, Meenal Alagappan, Mehala Kumar, Milind Sawdekar, Mohan Asampalli, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mrigender Joshi, Munish Gowda, Murthy Mr, Navya Vyas, Nihal Mahesh, Nishand Venugopal, Noyan Uppadhai, Om Prakash Panchal, Oriental Trails, Padma Gyalpo, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parth Parikh, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Paul Antony B, Prabhudatta Bal, Pradeeshwar R.J, Pranad Patil, Prasenjit Bhattacharjee, Praveen Baddi , Qmr Malpe, Qmr Manipal, Qmr Udupi, Rahul Chetre, Rajah Jayapal, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Raju Kasambe, Rajubhai Patel, Raman Kalika, Ramaswamy V, Ramesh Shenai, Ravi Gopalakrishnan, Renju Tr, Ritesh Joshi, Rofikul Islam, Rohit Kokil, Ronith Urs, Sahana M, Sajeev Krishnan, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Saman Patel, Samir E, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Sanju Bennur, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Seema Tekam, Selvaganesh K, Sharad Apte, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddhartha Vineet, Siva T, Sourav Mandal, Spoorthi Nagaraju, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreelal K Mohan, Sri P, Srinivas Mallela, Srushti Bokil, Subhadra Devi, Sudha Kanjiravalappil, Sudip Simha, Sugata Saha, Sujith Raj Salian, Supriya Kulkarni, Surya Rao, Sushant Pawar, Sushma Nirmal, Swati Sen, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Tarachand Bairwa, Tomal Gogoi, Umesh Chhangani, Umesh Krishna, Urjit Singh, Utkarsh Srivastava, Vasi ., V Gouthama, V Sitaram, Veeru Negi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vidyasagar Jagtap, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vinod Hampi, Vishal Mistry, Vivan Surange, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 180 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Parth Parikh who receives a binoculars harness (by Safari Buff) as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for July?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!
Header Image: Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus by Dipayan Chakraborty/ Macaulay Library
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