March is a month of considerable change in bird populations across much of India, as migrants begin returning to their summer homes in the north, and resident birds become more and more vocal to mark the breeding season. To encourage the documentation of changes in bird communities from winter to ‘spring’, the monthly challenge for March was to revisit at least four winter (Dec-Feb) birding locations and upload lists from there during March.
Here is a break-up of eBirding in India in March (with previous month in brackets). February usually has very high eBirding (in part because of the GBBC), so it’s expected that this month’s numbers are considerably lower!
Number of birders: 859 (1,502)
Number of lists (all types): 9,180 (16,340)
Number of lists (eligible only): 7,820 (14,526)
Number of observations: 1.7 lakh (3.1 lakh)
Of the 859 eBirders in February, 62 met or exceeded the target of revisiting at least 4 winter birding locations. They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
Aaditya S Kumar
Abhishek Gulshan
Ajay Gadikar
AM Amsa
Aparajita Datta
Arabinda Pal
Arjun Kannan
Aswin Nisanth
Balagopal VK
Balwant Negi
Chris Bowden
Dr George P J
Emanuel George
Ganeshwar S V
Gokul Vadivel
Govind Girija
Gunasekaran M
Harshith JV
Hemanth Byatroy
Hemant Kirola
Jadeswamy Madaiah
Jaydev Mandal
Komal Agrawal
Lloyd Fernandes
Maxim Rodrigues K
Mike Prince
Mohith Shenoy
Namassivayan Lakshmanan
Panchapakesan Jeganathan
Prakash G
Pranjal Mahananda
Prashant Kumar
Prathamesh Desai
Premchand Reghuvaran
Rajaneesh Ghadi
Ramit Singal
Ramnarayan K
Raphy Kallettumkara
Renju TR
Ronit Dutta
Sandeep Sathyan
Sanjay Karanth
Satypal Singh
Selvaganesh K
Shah Jahan
Shanmugam Kalidass
Shishir Shendokar
Shivi Mishra
Sivakumar SS
Sivakumar Swaminathan
Siva T
Sneha Gupta
Somoyita sur
Srinivas Daripineni
Sumesh B
Sunil Kumar
Tony Antony
Vaidehi Gunjal
Velsina Rodrigues
Venugopalan R
Vidhya Sundar
Vrinda Lath
Many congratulations to all of them!
One of these 62 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift, and that person is Harshith JV who receives a copy of How to be a (bad) birdwatcher by Simon Barnes. (You can read reviews here and here.)
Here is the full list of all 859 eBirders from March 2016:
Aaditya S Kumar, Aakash Shejwal, Aashish Joshi, Abdul Raheem Munderi, abha manohark, Abhijeet Avate, Abhijeet Sawant, abhijith a.p.c, Abhijith surendran, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Abhinav R, Abhirami C, Abhirami M Jayakumar, Abhishek Gulshan, Abhishek Maiya, abhishek ravindra, Able Lawrence, Adarsh Raju, Adithya Bhat, Aditi Sridhar, Aditya Aravind, Aditya Chanekar, Advait Marathe, Afshan Husain, Afthab Faisal k, Aidan Fonseca, Ainy Latif, Ajai Singh Berwal, Ajay Gadikar, Ajinkya Supekar, Ajish George, AJISHMA S, Ajit Hota, AJU RAJU, Akash Gulalia, Akhila MP, akhil gupta, Akshay Surendra, Akshita Jain, Albert relton, Albin Jacob, aleena thomas moore, Aljo Anand, Alkesh Thakare, AM AMSA, Amit Bandekar, amith bangre, Amith Kumar, Amit kaushik, Amit Kher, Amol Bapat, Amol Lopes, amol mande, Anagha Bagade, Anamika Menon, ANAND Osuri, ANAND PALANI, Anand Pandya, Anand Pendharkar, Anand Sundaram, Anantya Resorts, Andreas Seiter, Aneesh Sasidevan, ANILA AJAYAN, Anil Mahajan, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH, Anish 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Are you doing your best to match the target for April (standardized counts on 15 days from the same location)? And there is also a set of yearlong challenges for 2016 to bird towards!
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