As temperatures cool and migrations spread through the country, birders fan out as well. Here is the break-up of eBirding in India in Nov 2017 (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 1,288 (1,162)
Number of lists (all types): 12,800 (11,000)
Number of observations: 2.42 lakh (2.02 lakh)
November challenge
The challenge for November was to upload at least 11 birdlists in the first half of the month and another 11 in the second half plus at least 11 of all lists from a single locations (see the link above for details). Of the 1,288 eBirders in this month, an 54 met or exceeded this target! They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
| Adhithyan NK Aisha Sultana Ajay Gadikar Arnold Goveas Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arun B Arunima J arun lal Avinash Sharma Chirag Munje Deepti Krishnan Dhananjai Mohan Elavarasan M Ganeshwar SV GOVIND GIRIJA Gowthama Poludasu hari kumar HARI MAVELIKARA HARSHJEET BAL HG Prashanthakumar Jayadev Menon Karunakar Rayker Kumar Singh Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha Misha Bansal Murugesh Natesan |
namassivayan lakshmanan Niranjana C Panchapakesan Jeganathan PANKAJ GUPTA Periyasamy Rajangam Pushpa Puliyeri Raja Simma Pandiyan Raman Kumar Ramesh Shenai raphy kallettumkara renju tr Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Selvaganesh K Sreehari K Mohan Sreekumar Chirukandoth Steffin Babu subramania siva Sudheesh Mohan Sumesh PB Thanigai Velu Vidhya Sundar Vikas Madhav Nagarajan Vinay Bhat Vinay Nadig Virag Sharma Vivek Puliyeri |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
One of these 54 birders was selected, using a computer-generated random number. That person is Subramania Siva who receives a copy of How to be a (bad) birdwatcher by Simon Barnes as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for December (lots of uploads with media)? And do keep an eye on the yearlong challenges for 2017!
Header Image: Red-billed Blue-Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha © Dilip C Gupta/ Macaulay Library
Thank you for choosing my photo for Nov 2017
Thank you for such a wonderful and striking photo!
[…] Foundation’s youngest birder and a 9th standard student Subramania Siva was the winner of the national level monthly eBirding challenge for November conducted by Bird Count India. […]