May is the month with the lowest birding activity in India, but hundreds of intrepid birders are still out there, watching and recording the species they see! Here is the breakup of birding in India in the month of May 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,207 (1,271)
Number of lists (all types): 11,300 (13,700)
Number of observations: 2.0 lakh (2.3 lakh)
May challenge
The challenge for May was to upload at least 30 eligible checklists (details at the link above). Of the 1,207 eBirders in this month, 59 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhay Pandey Ajay Gadikar Ankit Vikrant Anup Prakash Arne Wenzel Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arundev G Ashwin Viswanathan David Raju Deepti Krishnan Divya Subramani Dr. NISHAD PM Elavarasan M Emanuel george Ganeshwar SV HARSHJEET BAL Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon JOE M RAJA Karthik Thrikkadeeri Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala Panchapakesan Jeganathan Periyasamy Rajangam Praver Mourya Pushpa Puliyeri |
Raja Simma Pandiyan Rajesh Prasad Rajesh Radhakrishnan Raju Kasambe Raman Kumar Roozbeh Gazdar Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka SANJEEV NALAVADE Sanjiv Khanna Satpura Birds Selvaganesh K Shailja Mamgain Shasank Ongole Shubham Singh Sreekumar Chirukandoth SRINILA MAHESH K T Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Taukeer Alam Lodha Varsha Raj VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vidhya Swaminathan Vidya Raju Vinay Bhat Vinay Nadig Vinod Shankar Yogeswarie Sreedharan — |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From all the eligible checklists uploaded by the birders named above, one list with a breeding code was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That list was uploaded by
who receives a copy of The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future, by Jim Robbins as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for June (birding while looking for brood-parasitic cuckoos)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!
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