Many winter migrants start arriving in September, and there is corresponding increase in birding in the country — an interesting commentary on the behaviour of birdwatchers! Here is the breakup of eBirding in the country in September 2019 (with previous month in brackets):
Number of birders: 1,520 (1,317)
Number of lists (all types): 14,600 (11,800)
Number of observations: 2.23 lakh (1.66 lakh)
September challenge
The challenge for September was to upload at least 5 eligible lists in each week of the month (details at the link above). Of the 1,520 eBirders in this month, 56 met the target. These are (excluding group accounts):
| AM AMSA Anil fartiyal Aravind AM Arulvelan Thillainayagam Ayush Rajotia Chirag Munje Claudia Pinheiro Deepti Krishnan Dhruba Saikia Elavarasan M Gireesan TU GOVIND GIRIJA Hakimuddin F Saify Hareesha AS hari kumar Harish Dobhal HARSHJEET BAL Hemant Ware Jageshwer verma Janardhan Uppada Jayadev Menon JOE M RAJA kalpana jayaraman KARTHIKEYAN R Kshitija Gupta Lakshmikant Neve Lathika K K |
Manju Sinha Manoj Karingamadathil manoj p g MAYANK NAMDEO Mehala Kumar Mittal Gala Navaneeth Sini George Panchapakesan Jeganathan Prabhudatta Bal Rajesh Radhakrishnan Ramaswamy V Ramesh Desai Renju TR Sahana M Sajeev Krishnan Sandhya Lenka Sanjiv Khanna Selvaganesh K Sheena S Shilpa Gadgil Sreekumar Chirukandoth Steffin Babu Subhadra Devi S ~ V I S H N U S A N K A R vadivukkarasi A VASEN SULI Vidhya Swaminathanv |
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Many congratulations to all of them!
From these 56 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is
Vasen Suli
who receives a copy of Bird Sense: What it’s like to be a bird, by Tim Birkhead, as a small gift in appreciation.
Are you doing your best to match the target for October (20 hours of birding)? And there is also the set of yearlong challenges for 2019!
I`AM FOUND A Great egret INJURED . WHAT I DO
Dear Amit,
Thanks for contacting us. The best thing to do when you come across injured birds or animals is to find a local rescue and rehab centers. They might have trained and experienced people who can guide and help with such circumstances.