October is when the winter migration season heats up and more and more birders are out and about. Here is the break-up of eBirding in India in Oct 2017 (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 1,162 (957)
Number of lists (all types): 11,000 (12,100)
Number of observations: 2.02 lakh (1.78 lakh)
October challenge
The challenge for October was to accumulate at least 15 hours of birding through the month (see the link above for details). Of the 1,162 eBirders in October, an amazing 191 met or exceeded this target! They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
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Many congratulations to all of them!
One of these 191 birders was selected, using a computer-generated random number. That person is
who receives a copy of How to be a (bad) birdwatcher by Simon Barnes as a small gift in appreciation.
Gap-filling challenge
The gap-filling challenge for October was to upload a minimum of four eligible checklists from any one or more of the 321 Districts that were represented by less than 30 minutes of eBirding in all previous Septembers. A total of 249 effort-based birdlists of 15 min or longer were uploaded from 57 of the target Districts, by 66 birders. Of these, 16 birders met the target for the gap-filling challenge, and these are listed below, together with names of the districts they uploaded 4 or more lists from):
Anurag Chhajlani (MP Ujjain)
Arpit Puranik (MP Ujjain)
Govind Girija (TN Theni)
Harshjeet Bal (CT Raigarh)
Hemant Ware (MH Bid)
Mamta Parmar (OR Mayurbhanj)
Manjeet Kaur Bal (CT Raigarh)
Praver Mourya (MP Ratlam, MP Shajapur, MP Ujjain)
Rahul kumar (BR Nalanda)
Sahana M (KA Bidar)
Sandhya Lenka (OR Jagatsinghapur)
Sanjiv Khanna (PB Jalandhar, PB Kapurthala)
Shekar Vishvanath (BR Patna, BR Ranchi)
Shib Shankar Goswami (JH Hazaribagh)
Shwetha Bharathi (KA Bidar)
S S Cheema (AR Papum Pare)
Many thanks to all of them for helping fill eBird gaps in India!
One person from these 16 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift. That person is
Harshjeet Bal
who receives a copy of The Thing with Feathers, by Noah Strycker.
Eurasian Wryneck, by Harshjeet Bal/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab. From this checklist.
Are you doing your best to match the target for November (a riff on the 11th month)? And do keep an eye on the yearlong challenges for 2017!
