Our apologies for being a day late with announcing the September eBirders of the month — we’ve been caught up in the excitement of launching the Patch Birding Challenge and the eBird-India Data Challenge — do take a look if you haven’t already! While you are clicking about, do also check out What’s on in October in terms of birding and eBirding.
But for now, let’s look at the break-up of eBirding in India in September (with previous month in brackets).
Number of birders: 779 (709)
Number of lists (all types): 8,303 (9,562)
Number of lists (complete, 15min or longer): 7,187 (8,525)
Number of observations: 1.33 lakh (1.48 lakh)
The challenge for September was to upload at least 6 eligible lists per week to eBird, with eligible lists being defined as no-X, complete birdlists of 15-minute duration or longer. Of the 779 eBirders in September, 19 met or exceeded the target for the month. They are (as always, excluding group accounts):
Ajay Gadikar
Ajinkya Supekar
Ashwin Viswanathan
Avishkar Munje
Govind Girija
Hari Kumar
Jayadev Menon
Lakshmikant Neve
Lekshmi M K
Manju Sinha
Namassivayan Lakshmanan
Panchapakesan Jeganathan
Prashanth N S
Ramit Singal
Sasidharan Manekkara
Shanmugam Kalidass
Subbu Subramanya
Vidhya Sundar
Vinay Nadig
Many congratulations to all of them!
One person from these 19 was chosen using a computer-generated random number to receive a small gift. That person is Avishkar Munje who receives a copy of Bird Sense: What it’s Like to be a Bird by Tim Birkhead. (You can read a review here, and there is a website devoted to the book too.)
Here is the full list of all 779 eBirders from India in September 2016:
Aadil Shamsi, Aarav Sheth, Abdul Raheem Munderi, abha manohark, Abhijeet Avate, Abhijith AV, Abhijith surendran, Abhimanyu Lele, Abhinand C, Abhinav R, Abhirami C, Abhiram Sankar, Abhishek Bhargava, abhishek gopal, Abhishek Gulshan, Abhishek Jamalabad, Abhishek Maiya, abhishek ravindra, Abinesan S, Able Lawrence, Adesh Shivkar, Adithya Bhat, Aditya Banerjee, Aditya Chanekar, Afshan Husain, Aidan Fonseca, Ajay Gadikar, Ajinkya Supekar, Ajinkya Vaskar, AJU RAJU, Akash Gulalia, akhil ashok, Akhilesh Bharos, akhil johny, AKSHAY LONARE, Akshay Mokal, Akshay Surendra, Albin Jacob, Amal U S, AM AMSA, Aman Gujar, Amarendra Konda, Amith Kumar, Amol Bapat, Amol Lopes, AMRITHA A NAIR, Amul Mutha, ANAND Osuri, Anand Pendharkar, Anand Sundaram, Aneesh Sasidevan, Anindya Naskar, Aniruddha Bade, Aniruddha Ghosh, Anish Aravind, Anish MC, Anish Mohan Thampi, Anjali Aggarwal, Anjali HR, anjana hari, ANJU S V, Ankit Choudhary , Ankur Shah, Anoop CR, Anoop King, Anoop palode SS, Ansar Khan, Anupam Sanker , Anup Chavda, Anup Prakash, Anuradha Krishnan, Anurag Chandak, Anurag Singh , anzal faham, Aparajita Datta, Aparna K, APARNA NEVE, Apeksha Darshetkar, APITHA NAMASSIVAYAN, Appavu Pavendhan, Apurva Chawre, Arabinda Pal, Aravind AM, Aravind Amirtharaj, Arjun Kannan, Arjun R, Arnab Pal, Arnav Anish, Arnold Goveas, Arshad Hussain, Arun Bhaskaran, Arun C.G, Arun Chungappally , Arun kumar, Arun Kumar Mathivaanan, arun lal, Arun M K Bharos, ARUN PRABHU, Arun Prasad, Arun Singh, Arya Vinod, Ashcharya Rishi, Ashin Rita TA, Ashish Babre, Ashish Bhatt, Ashish Jha, Ashis Kumar Pradhan, ashiya salim, Ash J, Ashlesha Pandit, Ashok Bhatt, Ashokkumar Mohanarangan, ashok raj v m, Ashritha Anoop, Ashwin Bhat, ashwin mohan, Ashwin Viswanathan, ASWATHY SASIDHARAN, Aswin Nisanth, ATANU MODAK, Avinash K Mon, Avishkar Munje, AWC Pathanamthitta, Ayan Khanra, Ayesha Sequeira, Ayush Ankit, Balaji P B, balakrishnan pakaravoor, Balasubramanian S, Balbir Arora, Balwant Negi, Bela Arora, Bhanu Prakash, Bhanu Sridharan, Bhaskar pandeti, Bhaskar Sati, Bhavesh Mengar, BIBIN PAUL, Bijoy Venugopal, bijumon ke, Biju PB, BIJU THENKUDI, Bimalnath Punnassery, BINU SREELAKAM, Bird Atlas Kannur (Group Account), Bird Atlas Palakkad (Group Account), Bird Atlas Thrissur (Group Account), Bird Snappers, Biswanath Mondal, Brett Shelton, Brihadeesh Santharam, Brodie Lewis, bulbul muruges, Calicut Bird Club, Chaatak Nature Conservation Society, Chagsaa odonjavkhlan, CHANDRA BHUSHAN, Chandra SG, charles naveen, Chayant Gonsalves, Cheran Jagadeesan, chetan harikishandas joshi, Chetna Sharma, Chirag Munje, Chiseena CT, chithrabhanu pakaravoor, Chris Bowden, Cinchona GHS(Group account), C K SMITHA, CLAREENA JOSE, CNS Nature, Colin Braganza, Cristeena TA Cristeena TA, Dakshina Sudhir, Damodaran Pallath, Danival santhosh, david stanton, Dayani Chakravarthy, Debashis Chowdhury, Deepa Chandran, Deepak Balasubramanian, Deepak Jois, Deepa Mohan, Deepanker Mukherji, Deepika Karanth, Deepthi Chimalakonda, denzil britto, Desmond Lobo, Devathi Parashuram, Devnath C, Devu Mohanebird, Dhananjai Mohan, Dhanesh Ayyappan, Dhaval Vargiya, dhiren malani, Dhruvam Desai, Dilan Mandanna, Dilip Joshi, Dilip K G, DINESH G K, Dinesh kumar, Dinesh Pundir, Dinesh Singal, Divin Murukesh, Divya L V, Divya Mudappa, Douglas Ball, Dr George P J, Dr. Jayant Wadatkar, Dr. Krishna kumar, Dr Sumit Chakrabarti, Edison Jose, EKM Bird Atlas(Group Account), Elias Rowther B., Elrika D’Souza, Emanuel george , Esha Munshi, Ezhupunna Birders (group account) , fermin jose, Gagan Mittal, Gaja mohanraj, Ganesh Datar, Ganesh Honwad , Ganesh R Mandavkar, Ganesh Subramaniam, Ganeshwar S V, Garima Bhatia, Gaurang Bagda, Gaurav Nalkur, Gaurav Shirodkar, Gautam Krishnan, GAYATHRI GK, Geeta Viswanathan, Geetha Venkataraman, Gijitha G, Gillian Wright, gireesan tu, Gireesh Pallikkara, Girish Jathar, GirishMohan P K, Gitanjali Katlam, gohil jayveersinh, gokul vadivel, Gopalakrishna R, Gopal bhagavatula, Gopal Bhaskaran, GOVIND GIRIJA, Gowthama Poludasu, Gowthami Gowda, G Parameswaran, Graham B Langley, greeshma paleeri, Grishma Jain, Guhan Sundar, Gurjeet Singh, Haarish Mohammed, HANNA THOMAS, hari b, Harikrishnan S, hari kumar, HARI MAVELIKARA, Harish Chandra, HARISH K, Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshavardhan Jamakhandi, Harshith JV, Harshit Singh, Hemanth Byatroy, Hemant Khedkar, Hemant Kirola, Himadri Banerjee, Hiren Khambhayta, Humayun Taher, Hyderabad Birding Pals, Ikshan Ganpathi, Induchoodan A Sreedharan, Irshad Theba, Jadeswamy Madaiah, Jafer Palot, Jaichand Johnson, Jameela Parampatt, janani r, Janhavi Rajan, Janhvi Vyas, Jaswinder Waraich, Jayadev Menon, Jayan Thomas, Jaydev Mandal, Jayesh Ghanekar, Jeet Sheth, Jeyakumar Johnson, Jibin Abraham, jisha s, jishnu kizhakkillam, Jishnu R, jithesh pai, Job Joseph, Joby Joseph, jolly kv, JOSE RANI BABU, joshua Dsilva, joydip mukherjee, juee khopkar, JUGAL PATEL, Jyothish Nelson, Kaajal Dasgupta, Kadambari Devarajan, Kalyan Ramakrishna Chowdary Vundavalli, Kalyan Varma, Karthikeyan G B, Karthikeyan Ponnambalamoorthy, Karthik S, Karthik Teegalapalli, Kashyap R, Kausthubh K Nair, Kaustubh Rau, Kiran bagade, kiran more, Kiron Vijay, Kirubhanandhini V, Kishore Kumaran S, Kishore P, Kishore Raj, Kit Britten, Komal Agrawal, Krishna Bhavar, krishna kumar, Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan, Krishna Murthy, Krishnamurthy Vijaykumar, Krishnapriya Tamma, krishna ramanayak, Krupa Patil, K.Sravan Kumar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Kumudwathi Vemanna, Kunan Naik, lakshmibharathi V, Lakshmikant Neve, Lakshminarasimha Ranganathan, Lawrence Mathappan, Laya Sriraam , Lekshmi L J Nair, Lekshmi M K , lingesh kalingarayar, Loukika Neve, Lovis Wittenberg , Madhura Niphadkar, Madhurima Das, madhushri mudke, Magesh Ram, Mahathi Narayanaswamy, Mahesh madhu, maithreyi m r, Malini Gupta, Mallika Rajasekaran, Mamta Megha, Mandar Bhagat, Mangesh Prabhulkar, Mangirish Dharwadkar, Manikandan V, manish kerkar, Manjula Ravi, Manju Sinha, manoj a, Manoj Karingamadathil, Marissa Menezes, MARUTHI PRASAD B P, Maulik Varu, MAXIM RODRIGUES K, M D Madhusudan, Md Shafi, Megha Chagtoo, meher preetham, Mike Prince, Mikma Tamang, Milan Sojitra, Milind Ganatra, mini v, Misha Bansal, misriya v.y, Mohak Katvi, mohammad sulaiman, mohammed hirash, Mohandas Giriyappa, Mohit Aggarwal, Mohith Shenoy, Mohit Mehta, Mohit Sahu, Monica Kaushik, Monika Gandhi, Mou Jana, mridul anand, MS Raghunath, mujeeb pm, Mukesh Sehgal, Mukundan Kizhakkemadham, MUNEER THOLPETTY, munish sawant, Murtuza Hussain Abrar, Muthukumaran Balasubramanian, Muthu Narayanan, M V BHAKTHA, NAFIA N S, Nagappan R, Nagendra Nayak, namassivayan lakshmanan, Nameer PO, Namrata Narkar , Nandini Rajamani , Nandita Pande, NARESH G, Naresh Vadrevu, naseer parayil, naturesociety kottayam, Naveenlal P, Neeraj Amarnani, Neha Waikar, Nelson George, netra prasad sharma, Niketan Kasare, Nikita Khamparia , Ninad Raote, Niranjan A, Niranjana C, NIRANJAN S.NAMBIAR, NIRJHAR Banerjee , Nisanth Raveendran, Nishant Shah, nishith Kumar, Nishit Soni, Nitin Tomer, Omkar Dharwadkar, omkar naik, Onam Bird Count (Group Account), Panchapakesan Jeganathan, PANKAJ GUPTA, PANKAJ KOPARDE, Pankaj Lad, Pankaj Sharma, paresh gosavi, paresh poyarekar , Parikshit Khisty, PARVATHY AS, Pavithra Sankaran, Pawan Pareek , Payal Mehta, P. B. Samkumar, Phani krishna Ravi, Polly Poulose, Poojan Gohil, pooja pawar, Prabhanjan Behera, Prabhat Kumar, Prabhavathi Sudhakar, Prachi Galange, PRADEEP CHAUDHARY, PRADEEP KM, Pradheep J, Prakash G, Pramod Nair, Pramod Venkatesh murthy , Prasad Natarajan, Prasanna Gautam, Prasanna Parab, Prasenjeet Yadav, Prashanth N S, Prashant Kumar, Prashant Pimpalnerkar, Prashant Tewari, Prathamesh Desai, Praveen es, Praveen J, praveen shenoy, PREETHI RAJENDREN, Premchand Reghuvaran, Prem Kumar, Prem Prakash Garg, Priyanka Bhagyavant, Pronoy Baidya, Punit Mehta, Purab Chowdhury, Purvash Jha, Pushkar Chaubal, Pushpa C R, Pushpa P, Radha Rangarajan, Raghavendra Mukundarao, Raghu Nathan, Raghurama Hegde, Rahul Jawalge, rahul narlanka, Rahul Padwal, Rahul Paranjape, Rahul Wakare, Rajah Jayapal, Rajaneesh Ghadi, Rajarajan V, Rajashree Khalap, Raja Simma Pandiyan, Rajeev khandelwal, Rajendra Gadgil, Rajendran. T.M., Rajesh Bhatt, Rajesh Panwar, Rajesh Prasad, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Rajneesh Suvarna, Raju Kasambe, raju stiven crasta, Rama Neelamegam, Ramanjinaiah v Siddu, Raman Kumar, Ramesh Ganeshan, Ramesh kumar Selvaraj, Ramesh M, Ramesh Zarmekar, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Ramit Singal, Ram Vikas, RANJINI MURALI, raphy kallettumkara, Rathish RL, Raveendran Natarajan, ravi patel, ravi pn, Rebecca Samuel, REEF RCOEM, Regin George, Rejin R S, Renjan Mathew Varghese, renju tr, renuka Vijayaraghavan, RESHMA B, RESHMA SANTHOSH, Ribish Thomas, Ritesh Dighe, Ritesh Sharma, Riyan Konkath, Rohit Hirway, Rohith Rajan, Rohit Mudadi, Rohit Naniwadekar, ROJA ROY P, Ronit Dutta, Roshan Kamath, Roshin Tom, Roshnath R, Rudraksha Chodankar, Rujuta Phadke, Ruma Sinha, Rushil Fernandes, Rutuja Kukade , sabeer ali, Sachin Chandran, SACHIN KRISHNA M V, Sachin Main, Sagar Adhurya, Sahana M, sahil joshi, sahithya selvaraj, Sai Vivek, Sajeev Krishnan, SAJILA` S, Sajith Komath , sakthi manickam, sakthi pp, Samuel George, Sandeep Sakhare, Sandeep Sathyan, Sandhya Lenka, SANDIPAN GHOSH, sandip das, Saneesh C S, Sangeetha AB, Sangeeth Sailas Santhosh, Saniya Chaplod, Sanjay Karanth, Sanjay Kulkarni, sanjaykumar daramwar, Sanjay Malik, Sanjay Sondhi, Sanjeev Goyal, sanju majumder, Santharam V, santhosh kumar, santosh thakur, SARANGI N . V, Saravana Moorthy, saravanan ajith, sarbjeet kaur, Sarrah Reshamwala , Sashi Kumar, sasidharan manekkara, Satheesan K V, Satheesh Pullippadam, sathya kumar, Sathyan Meppayur, satish siwatch, Satypal Singh, Saurabh Agrawal, Saurabh Sawant, Savio Fonseca, Selvaganesh K, Selvarajan V, Shafeeq Wilson, Shameena S, Shanmugam Kalidass, Shanmugarajan G, Shanmukharaja Muroor, Shantanu Mukherjee, shantilal Varu, Sharang Satish, sharmila Abdulpurkar, Shashikantha Koudur, Shashikant S. Naik, sheeba nanjan, sheeja vr, Sheela Panwar, shishir shendokar, Shivangi Jain, Shivi Mishra, Shreyan M L, Shrikanth nayak, Shriranjani L . Iyer, shruti sengupta, Shubhadeep Mukherjee, Shubha Nava, Shwetha Bharathi, Shyam krishnan, Sibin Thomas, Siddharth Bhatt, Silpa A R, Sita Susarla, Sivadas Chettur, Sivakumar AK, Sivakumar R, Sivakumar SS, Sivakumar Swaminathan, Sivashankar Ramachandran, Siva T, Siyad A Karim , Sneha Gupta, Snehasis Sinha, Soham Sinha, Soma Ateesh, Somraj Gupta, Soni Nambiar, Soorya S, Soumya Shubhra Nag, Soumya V, Sounds Roy, Sourav Dinda, S R Aamir, sravan kumar, Sreehari OK kuttu, SREEJESH NELLIKODE , Sreekanth P , Sreekumar E R, sreekumar mahe, sreelekshmi s, Srikaanth Sekar, Srikanth Bhamidipati, Srinivas Daripineni, Sriram Reddy, sruthy rs, sruthy sankar, S S Cheema, SS prasanth, steffin babu, Subbu Subramanya, Subhasmita Patro, Subin Sudheendran, Subramanian B, Subramniam Venkatramani, sudeep r, Sudeshna Dey, sudhakaran kk, Sudhir Moorti, Sudhir Reddy, Sugandha Gosavi, Suhel Quader, Sujata Phadke, Sujith soori, Sujith V Gopalan, Sumedh Jog, Sumesh b, Sumin George, sumi Panniannur, sunil kumar, Sunil Kumar M T, Sunil Moteria, Suniti Bhushan Datta, SURAJ NAIK, Surendhar Boobalan, suresh sharma, SURYANARAYANAN S NAMBIAR, Surya Prakash, susanth madapurakkal, sutirtha lahiri, Swapnil Wankhede, Swathi Bhat, Swati Sidhu, SYAMILI MANOJ, Syed Mustahsen, Syed Muzamil, Taksh Sangwan, Tanmay Jain, Tanweer Alam, Tanya Seshadri, Tapas Misra, Tara Rajendran, Tarun Menon, Taukeer Alam Lodha, Tejasvi S Acharya , TheNatureTrust (GroupAccount), The Pollachi Papyrus, thirupam reddy, Thomas Falk, Thomas Job, Thorkild Michaelsen, tony antony, Trilok Rana, Tropical Forest Research Institute Jabalpur, T R Shankar Raman, Uday Kiran, Udita Bansal, Udiyaman Shukla, umar khan, Umesh Mani, Umesh Vaghela, Vaidehi Gunjal, vaisakh george, varghese george, Varsha Karumampoyil, Varun Kher, vasaibirds vasai, vedang saunt, Vedant Jasu, Velsina Rodrigues, Venkatesh Prasad, Venugopalan R, Vidhya Sundar, Vidyut Jauhari, Vignesh Menon, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, Vikas Sharma, Vinayak Pakhre, Vinay Bharadwaj, Vinay Das, Vinay Nadig, Vineeth Malabaricus, Vineeth Viswanath, Vinod Puri Goswami, Vinod Venugopal, Vinod Verma, vipin cg, viral joshi, Viral Pankaj, Virender Sharma, Vishal Dutta, Vishambhar Agarwal , vishnudas ck, Vishnu Lal m, Vishnupriyan Kartha, Vishnu Vinod, Vivek Puliyeri, Vivek Rawat, vrinda lath, Wayanad Atlas, Wesley Rajaleelan, World Shorebirds Day, Yadu .., Yogesh Parashar, Yogesh Patel, Yousaf olavilam, Yusufkhan pathan, Zareef Khan Lodha
Are you doing your best to match the target for October (15 hours of birding through the month)? And there is also a set of yearlong challenges for 2016 to bird towards!
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