Sharing an eBird list is a great way to share your observations with others and contribute to citizen science efforts. The September challenge is all about sharing!
This month’s challenge is to upload a minimum of 30 eligible* lists, with the goal of sharing at least 4 out of these 30 lists with fellow eBirders.
Shared lists could be lists that another person has shared with you or you have shared with someone else. The only requirement is that all people on the shared checklist were birding together at the same time and place. Once shared, each person can edit the list specifically to what they see– deleting missed species, and adding species that others may not have seen. In this way, everyone on the trip can keep a faithful record of what they saw. More details about checklist sharing are here.
* Eligible checklists are those that report all species seen/heard (and are therefore marked ‘complete’), report numbers for all species rather than Xs, and are of at least 15 minutes or longer in duration.
Here are some Quick Videos to guide you on how to share checklists:
1. Share eBird checklist through eBird web
2. Share eBird checklist through eBird Mobile App
Please upload all your lists by 10 October 2023 so that we can announce the results soon after that.
See here to know What checklists are eligible for the monthly challenges. And check out the yearlong challenges for 2023 as well! You can keep track of fresh lists coming in from India on this page.
Bonus challenge (Optional)
We encourage you to participate in every citizen science initiative so don’t miss out on the excitement of the Big Butterfly Month 2023!When you watch butterflies during this month, upload your sightings to any citizen science platform that supports observations from India. (e.g. India Biodiversity Portal, ifoundbutterflies, iNaturalist)
When
1–30 September, 2023
Where
Anywhere in India
How
Simply observe and photograph butterflies during September and upload the photos to your platform of choice. In any one eBird checklist of September (eligible lists only), add ‘Big Butterfly Month 2023’ to your checklist comments. In the same checklist comment, link any one of your butterfly observations.
For example, see here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173038292
https://indiabiodiversity.org/observation/show/18025644
ifoundbutterflies has also launched a free and easy-to-use Butterflies of India mobile App
Anyone who participates in Big Butterfly Month 2023 will be separately featured in the monthly challenge results.
Note the butterfly photographs uploaded to the citizen science platforms should be from Septermber 2023 only.
Please upload all your photographs by 10 October 2023 so that we can announce the results soon after that.
Header Image: Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia by Hemanya Radadia/ Macaulay Library
