As we enter the main winter birding season in India, here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in November 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,685 (1,528)
Number of lists (all types): 16,200 (15,400)
Number of observations: 3.31 lakh (2.81 lakh)
November challenge
The challenge for November was to upload at least 11 eligible each in the first and second halves of the month; and for at least 11 of all lists to be from single location (details at the link above). Of the 1,685 eBirders in this month, 66 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhirami C Adharsh Bharathi ADIL NAFAR Ajay Gadikar Ankit Vikrant Anup Prakash Aravind AM Arnold Goveas Arun B Arun Thomas Aruvi Poomali Ashish Loya Ashwin Viswanathan Avishkar Munje B.R. Ansil Chirag Munje Deepti Krishnan Dhruba Saikia Elavarasan M Emanuel george Ganeshwar S V Gireesan TU GOVIND GIRIJA Gurpartap Singh Hareesha AS HARSHJEET BAL HG Prashanthakumar JANANI L Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon Karunakar Rayker Kaushik Sarkar Kiranmayee K |
krishnakumar K Iyer Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha MetalClicks Ajay Ashok Mittal Gala Neel Gadikar Panchapakesan Jeganathan Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Pushpa Puliyeri Rajesh Radhakrishnan Ramesh Desai renju tr Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Selvaraj Rangasamy Sherin James Sreekumar Chirukandoth Sreekumar E R Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi Tamil Selvan A VASEN SULI Vidhya Sundar Vidhya Swaminathan Vijaya Lakshmi Vinay Bhat Vinay Nadig Vinod Shankar Vivek Chandran vrinda lath |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From the names above, one was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That person is
Govind Girija (see profile)
who receives a copy of Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for December (30 lists, ideally with media)? And this is the last chance to work towards the yearlong challenges for 2018!
