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: 4,361 (4,999)
Number of observations: 5.7 lakhs (6.92 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 35,995 (43,841)
Number of species: 940 (1,034)
Number of unique lists with media: 3,429 (4,415)
The challenge for June was to upload 25 eligible checklists, with at least three of them containing a brood-parasitic cuckoo. A total of 268 eBirders successfully met this target!
Aarti Singh, Abu Birder, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Afsar Nayakkan, Aito Miwu, Ajay Arnold, Ajay Sarvagnam, Akash Maurya, Am Amsa, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Amee Vyas, Ameya Vaze, Amrit Raha, Anand Birdlife, Anand Bora, Anand Jha, Anand Singh, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Bhaduri , Anish Bera, Anjali Krishna, Annie Feby, Anoop Singh Chauhan, Ansar Ahmad Bhat, Anu Parthasarathy, Anuj Saikia, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Aparna D, Aravind Am, Arka Bhaduri, Arun Prabhu, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Asha Perinchery, Ashika S, Ashwin A, Ashwin Viswanathan, Avian Trips, Ayaan S, B.R. Ansil, Baharuddin Sk, Bhaarat Vyas, Bhamini Pande, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Bhavya Sharma, Bhawana Sharma, Bijoy Venugopal, Brijesh Gajera, C P Sethumadhavan, Chai Eng Law, Chetan Anand, Chinmay Bhoyar, Chirag Munje, Chitra Ingole, Clara Correia, Darshan Bisen, Debankur Biswas, Deepika Sinha, Dhairya Mirani, Dhiren Shah, Dilip C Gupta, Dipankar Dev, Divyaraj Shah, Dk Marry, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr Neha Kausar, Dr. Adil A, Dr. Archana Shukla, Dr. Chetna Ugale, Dr.Ranjeet Chitrakar, Elavarasan M, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Fulchand Shiv, Gaja Mohanraj, Ganeshwar S V, Garima Bhatia, Gaurav Mehta, Ghanshyam Prasad Bhanware, Gireesan Tu, Gopi Anan, Gopi Raji, Gurmet Stanba, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hari S, Harsh Suthar, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshith Jv, Hiralal Nag, Irshad Theba, Isheta Divya , Jageshwer Verma, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Jenny Johny Soloman Samuel, Jigu Patel, Joe M Raja, Joshika Tanujakumar, Kamal Singh Verma, Kamaljeet Cheema, Kamran Husain, Karthikeyan R, Kiran Admache, Kishore M, Krishna Maywad, Krishnendu Das, Ksheetij Pandey, Kuldip Topo, Kumari Aditi, Kunal Joshi, Kunan Naik, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Lokesh Lakhorkar, Madhavi Babtiwale, Madhu Gupta, Madhur Upadhyay, Mahender Alpula, Mahendra Hegde, Mahesh Rathod, Maitreya Sukumar, Malyasri Bhattacharya, Manan Mahadev, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Manjula Desai, Manoj Kumar Mk1, Manoj Pai, Meenal Alagappan, Mehala Kumar, Milind Sawdekar, Mohan Kumar M, Mohan Raj K., Moksha Mahajan, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mrinal Kaushik, Muhammed Rafi, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Naga Arjun, Nainesh Kapadia, Naman Doshi, Narendran M.M, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Nidhi Thanki, Nishand Venugopal, Padma Gyalpo, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Paul Pop, Pavan Gawande, Payal Patel, Prabhudatta Bal, Prachee J, Pradeep C R, Prajwalin Das, Pranad Patil, Prashanth N S, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Pronoy Baidya, R Sriram, Rahul Chetre, Rahul Wakare, Rajender Kumar, Rajendra Koranga, Rajesh Panwar, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Raju Sankaran, Raju Kasambe, Rajubhai Patel, Rakesh Dhurwey, Rakesh Singh, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ratnmala Mishra, Ravi Jesudas, Regin Ross, Renju Tr, Revathi Cm, Rofikul Islam, Rohit Tibrewal, Sachin Prabhu, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samir E, Sandeep Kumar Reddy Gangasani, Sandhya Lenka, Sandhya Phalke, Sandip Das, Sanjay Thakur, Sanjay Gupta, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Santosh Mahalik, Saphal Patil, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Satya Sidharth Das, Satyajit Chatterjee, Seema Tangadpalliwar, Seema Tania, Seema Tekam, Selvaganesh K, Selvaraj Arjun, Shakti – Tribesmen.In, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shaunak Deshpande, Shaurya Rahul Narlanka, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivam Kumar, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shiwank Negi, Shruti Gupta, Shubham Giri, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddhartha Ghosh, Siva T, Siya Bhagat, Sohail Madan, Som Mandal, Soni Vraj, Sourav Mandal, Sova Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreekumar D, Sri P, Srinivas Mallela, Steffin Babu, Subha N, Subhadra Devi, Sudha Kanjiravalappil, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sundar Muruganandhan, Supriya Kulkarni, Surya Rao, Sushant Pawar, Suvradeep Mitra, Swati Rahangdale, Tanuja Dasharath Haunsbhavi, Tarun Meena, Tejas Natu, Tuk Tuk, V Gouthama, V Sitaram, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vaibhav Patil, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vedkumari Verma, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vijayan Mp, Vikram S, Vikram Yadav, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vinay Bisen, Vinod Shankar, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Vaidyanathan, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas.
(updated on 29-7-2024)
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 268 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Fermin Jose, who receives a signed copy of The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching by Aasheesh Pittie 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 2024!
Header Image: Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis by Parthasarathi Chakrabarti/ Macaulay Library
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