After February (which contains the GBBC), generally see a bit of a drop in birding activity, but those who do go out birding in March are usually not disappointed! Here is the breakup of birding in India in the month of March 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,611 (2,273)
Number of lists (all types): 20,600 (31,400)
Number of observations: 3.5 lakh (5.1 lakh)
March challenge
The challenge in March was to upload at least 30 complete, effort-based lists of 15 min or longer; and to have, among them, at least three lists that are shared among 3 or more birders (details at the link above). Of the 1,611 eBirders in this month, 55 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhin M Sunil ADIL NAFAR Ajay Gadikar AM AMSA Anil Mahajan animesh manna Anup Prakash Arulvelan Thillainayagam BirdAtlas Kottayam Deepti Krishnan Divya Subramani Dr. NISHAD PM Ella Pennington Emanuel george Ganeshwar SV Jageshwer verma Jaydev Mandal JOE M RAJA krishnakumar K Iyer Lakshmikant Neve Loukika Neve Manjeet Kaur Bal MetalClicks Ajay Ashok MILIND SAWDEKAR Mittal Gala Mohammed Rinaz.m Mohammed Sayeer Najeeb K Panchapakesan Jeganathan |
Payal Mehta Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Rajesh Prasad Rajesh Radhakrishnan Rajpalsingh Rajput Ramesh Desai Ravi Sharma Renju TR Sajeev Krishnan Selvaganesh K Shah Jahan Shasank Ongole Sheila Hale Shwetha Bharathi sreekumar k govindankutty SS prasanth Subhadra Devi Suhel Quader Sujeesh P ullas kalappura vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vidya Raju Vineith Malabaricus Vishnupriyan Kartha |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
One name out of the above was selected using a computer-generated random number. The name is
who receives a copy of How To Be A (Bad) Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes, as a small gift in appreciation.
River Lapwing by S S Cheema/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (view in checklist)
Are you doing your best to match the target for April (regular birding at the same location)? And there are a whole set of new yearlong challenges for 2018!
Cover images details missing in this thread.
Thanks for alerting us. Unfortunately there was a glitch in WordPress, such that there was a mismatch between the thumbnail (Terek Sandpiper, by Sundar Palanivelu) and the image in the post (River Lapwing, by SS Cheema). We have now put the River Lapwing as thumbnail and will use the Terek Sandpipers in a subsequent post, with all credit, of course. Thanks again for being on the look out!