September 2024 eBirders of the Month

A group of Ruddy Turnstones perched on rocks, with their distinctive black and white plumage and orange legs

Before moving on to the results for the monthly challenges, here is a brief glimpse of birding in September by the numbers (with the previous month in brackets).

No. of birders: 4,616 (4,052)

Number of observations: 6.5 lakhs (5.19 lakhs)

Number of lists (all types): 42,561 (34,231)

Number of species: 969 (922)

Number of unique lists with media: 3,983 (3,300)

The challenge for September was to upload a minimum of 30 lists, with the goal of sharing at least 4 out of these 30 lists with fellow eBirders.A total of 178 eBirders successfully met this target!

Congratulations to all these birders!

Aamir Matli, Abhay Jagtap, Abhirami Gs, Adarsh Ajay, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Aditya Rao, Advaith Anand, Ajay Sarvagnam, Am Amsa, Amee Vyas, Ameya Bhave, Amitava Dutta, Amrit Raha, Amul Mutha, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anirban Bhaduri , Anish Bera, Ankush Nirmalkar Gkvk, Anuranjan Singh Dhurwey, Aparna S, Arun Singh: Andaman Bird Tour, Arunava Dutta, Arunsankar N, Ashika S, Avian Trips, Avinash Bhagat, Ayaan S, Baharuddin Sk, Baranidharan S, Bhaarat Vyas, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Chai Eng Law, Cheran Jagadeesan, Chirag Munje, Deepak Goray, Dev Anand Paul, Dibyendu Ash, Dijumon Kp, Dipankar Dev, Dipankar Ghose, Dombe Pradhan, Dr Bipasha David, Dr Mita Gala, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Dr. Adil A, Francis D’Souza, Ganeshwar S V, Gani Sama, Garima Bhatia, Gokuldeepak Mc, Gopi Raji, Govind Girija, Gowri Shankar S, Gowthami N, H Nambiar, Haemoglobin Dr, Hakimuddin F Saify, Harish Babu M, Harshith Jv, Jagdish Jatiya, Jageshwer Verma, Jayadev Menon, Joe M Raja, Jugal Borah, Kamal Singh Markam, Kanad Baidya, Kapdi Bharat, Karthikeyan G B, Karthikeyan R, Kilson Kiragori, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishnendu Das, Kuldip Topo, Kunan Naik, Lakshmikant Neve, Latha Prabhakaran, Lathika Anoth, Lobsang Tsering, Madhushri Mudke, Mamta Parmar, Manash Pratim, Manjula Desai, Manoj Karingamadathil, Mayuri Jani, Megha Kothadia, Midhunraj Kv, Mohan Raj K., Monali Shah, Muhammed Rafi, Munish Gowda, Murari Varma, Muskan Shrivastava, Naman Doshi, Naushad Theba, Navaneeth Sini George, Nigin Babu, Nishad Eshaal, Nosherwan Sethna, Novelkumar M S, Padma Gyalpo, Pampa Mistri, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Pankaj Gupta, Pankaj Pipada, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Pranad Patil, Prashanth N S, Praveen Velayudhan, Pronoy Baidya, Prosenjit Ganguly, Rahul Wakare, Raju Kasambe, Ramesh Shenai, Ramu Alluri, Ranjana Gosavi, Ranjeet Chitrakar, Rasila Tiwari, Reji Chandran, Rohit Kokil, Rohit Rai, Runa Dutta, Sahana M, Samir E, Sandeep Kumar Reddy Gangasani, Sandhya Lenka, Sanjiv Khanna, Santhi K, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Satya Sidharth Das, Seema Tania, Selvaganesh K, Shainaz Jussa, Shankar Tiwari, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivashankar Manjunatha, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siva T, Sivakumar Ak, Sivakumar R, Sourav Mandal, Sova Ghosh, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sri P, Steffin Babu, Subbu Subramanya, Subhadra Devi, Subhayan Biswas, Subho Chakraborty, Suchitra S, Sudip Simha, Sujan Chatterjee, Sumedhbodhi Waghmare, Sunil Kumar Unni, Tarun Menon, Tsewang Nurboo, Tuk Tuk, Uday Chaudhari, Usha Nataraj, Vaazhaikumar Kumar, Vandana Moon, Vasen Suli, Vasi ., Vedkumari Verma, Venugopalan R, Vidhya Sundar, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikram S, Vinodh Kambalathara, Vipul Dhawle, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivek Sudhakaran, Vyom Vyas, Yash Gardare.

The above list does not include group accounts and those with no identifiable names.

From these 178 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Gokuldeepak MC who receives a signed copy of The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching by Aasheesh Pittie as a small gift in appreciation.

Bonus Challenge Winners

Congratulations to the following winners who not only participated in the Big Butterfly Month but also went the extra mile by sharing their butterfly observations on citizen science platforms: