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Great Thick-knee (Great Stone-curlew) Esacus recurvirostris © Yash Kothiala/ Macaulay Library

February 2024 eBirders of the Month

Congratulations to Prasanna Kalita– winner of the February 2024 eBird-India Challenge! Prasanna’s name was drawn randomly from the 581 eBirders who submitted 33 checklists with at least 8 of the lists uploaded during the GBBC dates.

Collared Falconets by Chaiti Banerjee

Birder Profile—Chaiti Banerjee

This month’s Birder Profile features Chaiti Banerjee, an avid birder who enjoys traveling for birdwatching and also observes birds from her window when not on the go.

Campus Bird Count at Arivu School in Mysuru

Great Backyard Bird Count 2024—Preliminary Results

Every day, at least 2,180 birdwatchers from India came together for the 4 days (3,119 birdwatchers on Day 3!), documented 1,036 species, and uploaded over 61,000 checklists

Green-billed Malkoha by Chonseng Sangma

March 2024 eBirding Challenge

The challenge for March is to upload at least 31 eligible lists* out of which 2 should be from 2 different hotspots visited before

Bunting Count

Join the 2nd edition of Bunting Count where Asian countries are teaming up to monitor buntings for conservation. The goal is to raise awareness and conduct baseline studies on key bunting sites, as they face significant threats within the passerine family. Join by sharing your eBird checklists featuring bunting species from 1 Oct 2023 to 30 Apr 2024, using eBird ID: HKBWS Landbird.

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01 October 2023 1 Oct 2023 - 30 April

Dawn Chorus Day

Dawn Chorus Day is a celebration of birdsong! The collective sounds of birds in the morning are referred to as the "dawn chorus." The dawn chorus of birds is not […]

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07 April 2024 All day
Migration Maps

Forest Wagtail

Forest Wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus) breeds in East Asia (largely China) and migrates to southern and eastern India, and Southeast Asia during winter.

Celebrating GBBC–Launch of a New Hindi Video!

Celebrating GBBC–Launch of a New Hindi Video!

eBird एप पर चेकलिस्ट कैसे बनाये सभी पक्षी प्रेमियों के लिए खुशखबरी! ग्रेट बैकयार्ड बर्ड काउंट (GBBC) के खास मौके पर, हमने एक छोटा सा वीडियो तैयार किया है। इस...

Bird Atlases

A bird atlas is a citizen science project intended to map the distribution and abundance of a region’s birds. In an atlas project, the region of interest is typically divided into cells that are often subdivided into smaller cells, a design that can ensure uniform sampling in space by volunteer birdwatchers.

ID Articles

A series of articles to help with the identification of difficult birds.

Identifying Waders: Part 2

This article focusses on the two species of a group of very small shorebirds known as Stints (Calidris sp) - the Little Stint and the Temminck's Stint.

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

माशीमार कसे ओळखावे

माशीमार कसे ओळखावे: लाल छातीचा माशीमार (Red-breasted Flycatcher), लाल-कंठाचा माशीमार (Taiga Flycatcher) आणि काश्मिरी माशीमार (Kashmir Flycatcher) इंग्रजीत प्रकाशीत झालेल्या मूळ लेखाचा हा मराठी अनुवाद आहे. लेखक : तरुण मेनन आणि अश्विन विश्वनाथन, अनुवादक : स्वरूप...

What’s that White Egret sp?

By Ramit Singal Egrets are beautiful and elegant birds to watch. You'll often see them standing still over water and, in a flash, using their long, pointed bills to stab a fish or pick out an insect. No matter where you are in India, it is common to see one or many...

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

फ्लाईकैचर की पहचान करना: रेड-ब्रेस्टेड, टैगा और कश्मीर फ्लाईकैचर

रेड-ब्रेस्टेड, टैगा और कश्मीर फ्लाईकैचर तीनो एक जैसे दिखने वाले फ्लाईकैचर हैं। लेकिन इन तीन प्रजातियों के बीच अंतर करना मुश्किल हो सकता है! हालाँकि नर की पहचान करना काफी आसान है परन्तु मादा और पहले शीतकालीन पक्षियों को अलग-अलग बता पाना बेहद मुश्किल है। हालांकि यह आलेख उन प्रमुख विशेषताओं का वर्णन करता है जिससे पहचान करने में मदद मिलती हैं, याद रखें कि पृथक्करण के लिए इनमें से कई विशेषताएँ अपर्याप्त हैं। इन तीन बहुत समान दिखने वाली फ्लाईकैचर को अलग करने के लिए आपको अक्सर कई विशेषताओं के संयोजन पर विचार करने की आवश्यकता होगी।

Leafbirds – Golden-fronted, Jerdon’s and others

By Ramit Singal There are four species of leafbirds (also known as chloropsis) found in India and they never fail to enthral a birder. Each of them is largely green, slender in build, with a medium-length tail and the habit of dwelling in the top or mid-canopy....

What’s that White Egret sp?

By Ramit Singal Egrets are beautiful and elegant birds to watch. You'll often see them standing still over water and, in a flash, using their long, pointed bills to stab a fish or pick out an insect. No matter where you are in India, it is common to see one or many...

Identifying Paddyfield Pipits

The Paddyfield Pipit is resident across most parts of the country and this is an excellent time of the year to familiarise oneself with the most common pipit of the region.

Is that a Pipit or a Lark?

By Ramit Singal Few birds are as confusing to the beginning birder as Pipits and Larks. The first step towards identifying the species within the two families is to be able to tell between a pipit and a lark. Here is a short guide to telling apart these confusing...

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

फ्लाईकैचर की पहचान करना: रेड-ब्रेस्टेड, टैगा और कश्मीर फ्लाईकैचर

रेड-ब्रेस्टेड, टैगा और कश्मीर फ्लाईकैचर तीनो एक जैसे दिखने वाले फ्लाईकैचर हैं। लेकिन इन तीन प्रजातियों के बीच अंतर करना मुश्किल हो सकता है! हालाँकि नर की पहचान करना काफी आसान है परन्तु मादा और पहले शीतकालीन पक्षियों को अलग-अलग बता पाना बेहद मुश्किल है। हालांकि यह आलेख उन प्रमुख विशेषताओं का वर्णन करता है जिससे पहचान करने में मदद मिलती हैं, याद रखें कि पृथक्करण के लिए इनमें से कई विशेषताएँ अपर्याप्त हैं। इन तीन बहुत समान दिखने वाली फ्लाईकैचर को अलग करने के लिए आपको अक्सर कई विशेषताओं के संयोजन पर विचार करने की आवश्यकता होगी।

Dark egrets can be white…

By Ramit Singal The previous article focussed on the 4 regularly occurring white egrets from India. In this follow-up post, the attention will shift to egrets that happen to be dimorphic, i.e., they have a dark morph as well as a white morph. The Reef-Egrets are...

Identifying Waders: Part 1

In the first part of the series related to identifying waders, we try and tackle an often misidentified group consisting of the Tringa sandpipers.

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