Birding activity in India usually drops from February (with the GBBC) to March, and this year was no different. Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in March 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 2,227 (2,916)
Number of lists (all types): 24,000 (47,800)
Number of observations: 4.33 lakh (6.94 lakh)
March challenge
The challenge for March was to upload at least 30 eligible lists with at least five of these shared among three or more birders (details at the link above). Of the 2,227 eBirders in this month, 70 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
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Abdul Rehim |
Nosherwan Sethna Omkar Dharwadkar Panchapakesan Jeganathan Pravar Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran PRIYA AV Pushpa Puliyeri Rahul Nair Rajesh Panwar Rajneesh Suvarna Ramesh Desai Ratheesh Nest Renju TR Sahana M Santosh Bs Selvaganesh K Shahina Nowshad Shameem. A.P shiju Babu Shwetha Bharathi siji pk Sreehari K Mohan Sriram Reddy Sudheesh Mohan Sumesh PB ullas u r vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Swaminathan Vidya Raju Vijaya Lakshmi Vinod Ooralath Sivaji Vinod Shankar Vivek Puliyeri Yeray Seminario |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
All the names listed above were put into a pool and one was drawn from using a computer-generated random number. That name is
Pushpa Puliyeri (see profile)
who receives a copy of Bird Sense: What it’s like to be a bird, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for April (birding, and recording bird sounds as you do)? And there is also the set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
