November 10, 2018

October 2018 eBirders of the Month

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Last month saw a sharp uptick in birding activity in India. Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in October 2018 (with previous month in brackets):

Number of birders: 1,528 (1,171)
Number of lists (all types): 15,400 (11,500)
Number of observations: 2.81 lakh (1.96 lakh)

September challenge

The challenge for October was to bird for at least 5 hours during Wildlife Week (2-8 October) and at least 12 hours overall in the month (details at the link above). Of the 1,528 eBirders in this month, and impressive 185 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):

Abhay Pandey
Adil Ali
ADIL NAFAR
Adithya Bhat
Ajay Gadikar
Akash Gulalia
Albin Jacob
ALOK KUMAR CHANDRAKAR
Amarendra Konda
Aniketa Kabir
ANIL KUMAR B.T.
Ankit Vikrant
Anshuman shah
Anup Prakash
Arnab Pal
Arnold Goveas
Arulvelan Thillainayagam
Arun B
Arun Prabhu
Aruvi Poomali
Arvind Yadav
Ashwini LS
Ashwin Viswanathan
Atanu Modak
Balwant Negi
Bhaarat Vyas
Bhargavi U
Bhaskar pandeti
B.R. Ansil
CHANDRA BHUSHAN
Deepa Mohan
Deepti Krishnan
dhanapal kondasamy
DIPEN SONI
Dr.Sandip Modi
Emanuel george
Eshwari Hiremath
fermin jose
Gaja mohanraj
Ganesh Gore
Ganeshwar S V
Garima Bhatia
Gireesh Kumar
Gurpartap Singh
Hareesha AS
Hari Krishna Adepu
Harsha Jayaramaiah
Harshith JV
Hemanth Byatroy
Hemant Kirola
HG Prashanthakumar
Indranil Bhattacharjee
Iqbal Ali Khan
Jagdish Paithankar
Jageshwer verma
jagrut rindani
JANANI L
Janardhan Uppada
Jaswinder Waraich
Jayadev Menon
Jaydev Mandal
Jyoti Chawla
Kalyan Ineni
Karan Matalia
Kartikeya Singh
Kate H
Kavi Nanda
Krishna Murthy
Krishnamurthy Vijaykumar
Kshitija Gupta
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
Lakshmikant Neve
Mahesh Kashyap
maithreyi m r
Mallika Rajasekaran
Mangal singh bisht
Manjeet Gawas
Manjula Desai
Manju Sinha
Manoj Kumar Vittapu
mathew thekkethala
Maulik Varu
MAXIM RODRIGUES K
Mittal Gala
Mohit Aggarwal
mujeeb pm
Mukesh Sehgal
NARAYANA NARAYANA
Narendran M.M
Nawal Ahuja
Nayana Amin
Neel Gadikar
Nesrudheen PP
Nick Baldwin
Nicola Baldwin
Nihar Rao
Niranjana C
nizar virani
Padmaja Prabhu
padma ramaswamy
Pallavi Arora
Panchapakesan Jeganathan
Parmil Kumar
Parvaiz Shagoo
Prabhanjan Behera
Pradeepa Sudhakar
Prashant Kumar
Praver Mourya
Premchand Reghuvaran
Prem Raut
Priti Samode
Punit Mehta
Raghavendra Pai
rahul narlanka
Rahul Singh
Rajesh Panwar
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Rajneesh Suvarna
Raju Kasambe
Rama Neelamegam
Ramesh Desai
Ramesh Narula
Ramesh Shenai
Ram Veer
raphy kallettumkara
Ravi naidu
Ravindra Kaushik
Regin Ross
renju tr
Renuka Vijayaraghavan
RK Balaji
Rofikul Islam
Roozbeh Gazdar
Sachin Kumavat
Sahana M
Sai Shailesh
Sajeev Krishnan
Samakshi Tiwari
Samim Akhter
Samyak Kaninde
sandeep channappa
Sandhya Lenka
sandip das
Sanket Raut
Santosh Kumar Thakur
Satish Sasi
Satyajit Mandal
Selvaganesh K
Shakti vel
shantilal Varu
Sharad Apte
Shilpa Gadgil
Shivaprakash Adavanne
Shreeniwas Kandukuree
Shubham giri
Shubha Nava
Softy Smith
Sourav Halder
Sreehari K Mohan
Sreekumar Chirukandoth
Srini Raman
Sriram Reddy
Steffin Babu
Subhadra Devi
Subin Sudheendran
subramania siva
Sumit Dookia
Tarachand Wanvari
Taukeer Alam Lodha
vaazhaikumar kumar
vadivukkarasi A
VASEN SULI
Vidhya Sundar
Vijaya Lakshmi
Vinay Bhat
Virag Sharma
viral joshi
Virender Sharma
Vishal Vasu
Vivek Puliyeri
Vizz Vishwanath
YASHWANT SHEKHAWAT
Yogesh Parashar
Yogish Holla 

Many congratulations to all of them!

From the names above, one was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That person is

Mittal Gala (see profile)

who receives a copy of The most perfect thing: Inside (and outside) a bird’s egg, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.

Are you doing your best to match the target for November (targets based on the 11th month)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!

Banner image: Indian Golden Oriole by Rahul Singh/Macaulay Library from this checklist.

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Lakshmikant Rajaram Neve

Congratulations…Winning Team of eBird India. 185 Nos of winner in monthly challenge might be record breaking figure.

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