Updated on 11 Oct 2018 to correct an error in analysis
As the winter approaches, both migrants and birders are more active. Here is the breakup of eBirding in India in the month of September 2018 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,171 (1,069)
Number of lists (all types): 8,800 (11,474)
Number of observations: 1.96 lakh (1.36 lakh)
September challenge
The challenge for September was to upload at least 20 eligible checklists through the month, totalling at least 12 hours of birding (details at the link above). Of the 1,171 eBirders in this month, 92 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| Abhay Pandey Abhin M Sunil Adithya Bhat Aiswaryalakshmi A R Ajay Gadikar Anup Prakash Arnold Goveas Arulvelan Thillainayagam Arun B Arunima J Arun Prabhu Arun Thomas Ashwin Viswanathan Aswin KS Bruce Bruce CHANDRA BHUSHAN Chirag Munje Deepti Krishnan dhanapal kondasamy Dr George P J Emanuel george fermin jose Gaja mohanraj Ganeshwar S V Gireesan TU Gurpartap Singh Hareesha AS hari kumar Harsha Jayaramaiah HARSHJEET BAL Irin Sultana Jagdish Paithankar Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jaswinder Waraich Jayadev Menon Jincy Justin j.k. JOE MRAJA Kratika Goswami Krishnamoorthy Muthirulan krunal trivedi Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Manju Sinha Mohammed Sayeer Mohan Chandra Joshi |
Najeeb K namassivayan lakshmanan Navaneeth Sini George Neel Gadikar Nesrudheen PP Niranjana C Panchapakesan Jeganathan Periyasamy Rajangam Praver Mourya Premchand Reghuvaran Rachana Rao Rahul Singh Rajesh Panwar Rajesh Radhakrishnan Raju Kasambe Ramesh Desai Ramesh Narula renju tr Roozbeh Gazdar Sachin Kumavat Sajeev Krishnan sajitha siril SANATH RM Sandhya Lenka Sanket Raut Sarang Mishrikotkar Selvaganesh K Shailja Mamgain Sherin James Shilpa Gadgil Shubham Singh Sivadas Chettur Sreekumar Chirukandoth sreekumar k govindankutty SRINILA K T Steffin Babu Subbu Subramanya Subhadra Devi Surendhar Boobalan Tarachand Wanvari VASEN SULI Venugopalan R Vidhya Sundar Vijaya Lakshmi Vinay Bhat YASHWANT SHEKHAWAT |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From the names above, one was chosen using a computer-generated random number. That person is
Renju TR (see profile)
who receives a copy of How to be a bad birdwatcher, by Simon Barnes, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for October (5 hours of birding during wildlife week, and 12 hours overall)? And there are a whole set of yearlong challenges for 2018!
