Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in November by-the-numbers (with the previous month in brackets)
No. of birders: 3,906 (3,653)
Number of observations: 6.8 lakh (6.5 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 39,567 (38,535)
Number of species: 1099 (1080)
Number of lists with media: 4,538 (4,385)
November Challenge:
The challenge for November was designed to highlight two events –Salim Ali Bird Count and Maharashtra Pakshi Saptah. It involved uploading at least 36 eligible* lists in a certain way. A total of 37 birders met the target.
Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Amrit Raha, Angeline Mano M, Ankush Nirmalkar, Ashok Agarwal, Claudia Pinheiro, Dhruba Saikia, Dipankar Dev, Gaja Mohanraj, Janardhan Uppada, Joseph Melkis Raja, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Manash Pratim, Manju Sinha, Mohan Asampalli, Mohsina Khan, Prabhudatta Bal, Praveen Bennur, Praveen Tangirala, Ramesh Shenai, Ravi Kavungal, Renju TR, Sandhya Lenka, Sarabjeet Kaur, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shilpa Gadgil, Siva T, Steffin Babu, Sujith Vs, V Sitaram, Vaishnavi S, Venus Joshi, Vidhya Swaminathan, Vijaya Lakshmi.
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 37 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Angeline Mano M who receives a who receives a T-shirt (Endemic Birds of India) as a small gift in appreciation!
Are you doing your best to match the target for December?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2022!
Header Image: Short-toed Snake-Eagle Circaetus gallicus by Rajdeep Mitra/ Macaulay Library
