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: 4,776 (6,705)
Number of observations: 8.5 lakh (14.9 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 51,317(1,07,856)
Number of species: 1,094 (1,125)
Number of lists with media: 4,457 (5,767)
The challenge for March was to upload at least 31 lists. At least two out of the 31 lists were to be made in 2 different hotspots where you had eBirded between December 2022 to February 2023. A total of 48 birders met the target!
Adil Ali, Ajay Sarvagnam, Amrit Raha, Ashok Agarwal, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Dipankar Dev, Dipayan Chakraborty, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Gaja Mohanraj, Garima Bhatia, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Janardhan Uppada, Jayadev Menon, Krishnendu Das, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Madhu Gupta, Mohan Asampalli, Munish Gowda, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Rahul Singh, Ramesh Shenai, Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman, Renju Tr, Sahana M, Samish Dhongle, Sandhya Lenka, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sharad Apte, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Spoorthi Nagaraju, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreelal K Mohan, Srinivas Mallela, Srushti Bokil, Steffin Babu, Subhadra Devi, Supriya Kulkarni, V Sitaram, Vaibhav Patil, Venus Joshi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vivek Kumar Patel.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 48 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Srinivas Mallela who receives a binoculars harness (by Safari Buff) as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for April?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!
Header Image: Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis by Ashwini Bhatt/ Macaulay Library
