October is usually one of the best months for birding in India with migration in full swing. Birdwatchers were remarkably active this October as you can see from 
the break-up of eBirding in India during the month (with previous month in brackets). We observed a combined 1080 species!
No. of birders: 3,653 (2,933)
Number of observations: 6.5 lakh (4.4 lakh)
Number of lists (all types): 38,535 (28,321)
Number of species: 1080 (949)
Number of lists with media: 4,385 (2,820)
By the end of October, many migrants are expected to have arrived at their wintering sites although a number of birds continue to migrate until the end of November.
October Challenge:
The challenge for October was to upload at least 40 eligible lists during the month of which at least five were to be uploaded on Wild Bird Day 2022 on October 8. A total of 76 birders met the target.
Vyom Vyas,Prabhudatta Bal,Madhu Gupta,Angeline Mano M,Amee Vyas,Urjit Singh,ANURANJAN SINGH DHURWEY,Sakthi Chinnakannu,amrit raha,Ashok Agarwal,Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff,Harish Babu M,Vaishnavi S,Rahul Pereira,Vishal Mistry,Krishnendu Das,Venus Joshi,Moovendan Ramalingam,Lathika Anoth,Ambady Sasi,V Sitaram,Ajay Sarvagnam,Vikrant Prabhulkar,Praveen Bennur,Sanju J Bennur,Ankush Nirmalkar,Anonymous Anonymous,Dr. Chetna Ugale,Anitha A,Supriya Kulkarni,Munish Gowda,Seema Tekam,Ananya Deshkar,Bhavishya C M,MANOJ KUMAR MK1,Anamika Chandran,Chayan Debnath,Abhishek.s S,sanjay pawar,Mohan Asampalli,Adarsh Ajay,V Gouthama,shyamkumar puravankara,Sahana M,Sandip Das,Rofikul Islam,Ravi Kavungal,Renju TR,Anonymous Anonymous,Vigneshwaran B,raveendran kc,Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan,Steffin Babu,Cheran Jagadeesan,Selvaganesh K,Senan D’Souza,Dhruba Saikia,Lakshmikant Neve,Sreekumar Chirukandoth,Shilpa Gadgil,Sandhya Lenka,Gaja mohanraj,Regin Ross,Arun Singh,Manash Pratim,Dipak Sinha,Vidya Raju,Dipankar Dev,Arunachala pandian,Sarabjeet Kaur,Shashikiran Ganesh,Harikrishnan C P,Lathish R Nath,Subhadra Devi,Divin Venu,Janardhan Uppada,Vidya Swaminathan
Congratulations to all these birders!
The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.
From these 76 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Abhishek.s S 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 November?
Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2022!
Header Image: Naga Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis chocolatinus © Arpit Bansal/ Macaulay Library
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