Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in March by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).
No. of birders: 7,324 (10,787)
Number of observations: 12.52 lakhs (21 lakhs)
Number of lists (all types): 72,942 (1,45,282)
Number of species: 1,119 (1,140)
Number of unique lists with media: 7,135 (8,298)
The challenge for March was to upload a minimum of 31 complete checklists, including at least 2 from any waterbody, and to mention the word ‘wetland’ in the checklist comments. A total of 256 eBirders successfully met this target!
Updated on 29 Apr 2025
Congratulations to all these birders!
Abhay Sawant , Abhishek Karak, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Aditi Prasad, Afsar Nayakkan, Akshit Dua, Aldrich Franklin, Amarjeetsingh Bishnoi, Amrit Raha, Amsa Am, Anand Birdlife, Anand Bora, Anand Singh, Angeline Mano M, Anindita Mukherji, Anish Bera, Anishka Badonia, Anon Ray, Anu Parthasarathy, Aravind Am, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arpit Deomurari, Arun Singh, Arunava Dutta, Ashit Parida, Ashok Agarwal, Avinash Bhagat, Avishkar Munje, Ayan Banerjee, Ayush P Nair, Baharuddin Sk, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bijoy Venugopal, Bonyabondhu Kamrup, C P Sethumadhavan, Chaiti Banerjee, Chandramouli Ganguly, Cheran Jagadeesan, Cheryl Huizinga, Chirag Munje, Chirag Parmar, Chonseng Sangma, Chris Mills, Christopher Lawlor, Daniel Branch, Darshan Bisen, Deidre Asbjorn, Dhaval Vargiya, Dhruba Saikia, Dibyendu Paul, Dipankar Dev, Dipankar Ghose, Dipu Karuthedathu, Divyaraj Shah, Dombe Pradhan, Dorjee Bachung, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Mita Gala, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr Sudhir Gaikwad, Dries Van De Loock, Dusan Kerestur, Elavarasan M, Elizabeth Ferber, Faisal Fasaludeen, Fermin Jose, Francis D’Souza, Fulchand Shiv, Gagan Bedi, Gaja Mohanraj, Gajendra Singh, Gareth Hughes, Garvita Garg, Gaurav Sinha, Gayathri Mukunda, Ghani Singh, Glenn Steinke, Gokuldeepak Mc, Gopi Raji, Govind Girija, Gowri Shankar S, Grant Brosie, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hans Matheve, Hareendra Baraiya, Hareesha As, Henry Burton, Howard Laidlaw, Irshad Theba, Irvin Calicut, Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Jayadev Menon, Jaydev Mandal, Jayu Munje, Jiju Vinod, Joe M Raja, Joe Rz Thanga, Joel Rodrigues, Jugal Borah, Kanan Bishnoi, Karthik Teegalapalli, Karthikeyan R, Kaustubh Rau, Kedar Champhekar, Ken Oeser, Kilson Kiragori, Kirti Kanta Sethy, Krishnakumar. K. K, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishnendu Das, Ksheetij Pandey, Kuldip Topo, Kunan Naik, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika K K, Lathika Anoth, Leio De Souza, Magnus Persmark, Mahendra Hegde, Mahesh Rathod, Manan Mahadev, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Margot Ramos, Martin Rheinheimer, Mayuri Jani, Meha Jain, Michael Honeyman, Milan Sojitra, Miloslav, Mohanan Choron, Moovendan Ramalingam, Mukta Rajwade, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Narendran M.M, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Nicholas Iyadurai, Nikhil Chandwadkar, Nirmala Jatiya, Om Raut, Omkar Dharwadkar, Padma Gyalpo, Pampa Mistri, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Gupta, Parag Kokane, Parag Kumar, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Pat Weber, Paul Ashley, Prabhakar Gujjarappa, Prabhudatta Bal, Prabu Ranjit Edison, Pranad Patil, Prasanna Kalita, Praveen J, Prem Swaroop Kolluru, Priyam Chattopadhyay, Prodip Sarder, Rachita Priyadarshini Sahoo, Raghu K, Rahul Wakare, Raja Simma Pandiyan, Rajaraja Abd, Rajashree Joshi, Rajender Kumar, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Raju Sankaran, Raju Kasambe, Rakesh Dhurwey, Ram Rsnv, Ram Veer, Ram Vikas, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ramya Singaravelpandian, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Regin Ross, Renju Tr, Reva Duraphe, Ritesh Kaul, Rithwik Sundar, Rofikul Islam, Rohan Van Twest, Rohit Tibrewal, Runap Gogoi, Sabyasachi Jena, Sahana M, Saikat Das, Sakthi Chinnakannu, Samakshi Tiwari, Sambeet Puhan, Samir Nama, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Santhi K, Saranya R, Satya Sidharth Das, Saurabh Kalia, Sdtr Bird Survey, Seema Tangadpalliwar, Seema Tania, Shailendra Badonia, Shakti Vel, Shakti Bishnoi, Shamika Mahamuni, Sharad Gajbhiye, Sheena S, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shubham Giri, Shuvendu Das, Shveta Jadhav, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siva T, Sourav Mandal Ðÿª½, Souvick Mukherjee, Souvik Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Srinivas Daripineni, Steffin Babu, Subash Babu, Subramania Siva, Sudhakar S, Sudhanva Jahagirdar, Sudheesh Muraleedharan, Sudheesh Thattekkadu, Sudip Simha, Sumanth Kerur, Sunita Dighe, Swarup Sarkar, Titash Chakrabarti, Toon Spanhove, Tuk Tuk, Uma Vaijnath, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vaibhav Patil, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vidhya Sundar, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikrant Prabhulkar, Vinod Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Vishnu Ts, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Saggar, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas, Yash Gardare.
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 256 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Sudheesh Thattekkadu who receives a copy of Wild Heart of India by T R Shankar Raman as a small gift in appreciation. (updated on 29 Apr 2025).
Are you on checked the eBird India challenge for April? Don’t forget to rate your audio recordings added to your April checklists.
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2025!
Header Image: Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus © Nimitha R / Macaulay Library
