September 2023 eBirders of the Month

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: 3,477 (3,013)

Number of observations: 4.9 lakh (3.9 lakh)

Number of lists (all types): 29,998 (24,465)

Number of species: 945 (883)

Number of lists with media: 2,898 (2,116)

The challenge for September was to upload a minimum of 30 eligible* lists, with the goal of sharing at least 4 out of these 30 lists with fellow eBirders. A total of 119 birders met the target!

Abhinav Rajan, Adil Ali, Adithya Bhat, Ajay Sarvagnam, Alok Bhave, Amee Vyas, Anand Birdlife, Ananya Deshkar, Angeline Mano M, Anish Bera, Anjali Pande, Ankush Nirmalkar, Anuj Saikia, Aparna Jagadeesh, Ashika S, Ashok Agarwal, Ashwin Viswanathan, Avinash Bhagat, B.R. Ansil, Bhaarat Vyas, Bharatendra Singh Parihar, Bhavishya C M, Bijoy Venugopal, Birder BãBã, Chai Eng Law, Clara Correia, Commodore Nvs Raju, Digvijay Singh Rathore, Dipak Bowalkar, Dipankar Dev, Ditaujas V Prasad, Dr Mohammed Umer Sharieff, Francis Anish, Francis D’Souza, Gaja Mohanraj, Gani Khatri, Gani Sama, Gaurav Singh, H Nambiar, Hakimuddin F Saify, Hareesha A.S., Harsha Jayaramaiah, Harshada Gauns, Harshith Jv, Irshad Theba, Jalmesh Karapurkar, Jaydev Menon, Joshika Tanujakumar, Karthikeyan R, Keval Paliya, Krishnendu Das, Ksheetij Pandey, Kuldip Topo, Kunan Naik, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Lakshmikant Neve, Lathika Anoth, Lathika K K, Madhav Murthy, Madhur Upadhyay, Mahesh Rathod, Manash Pratim, Manjeet Gawas, Manjula Desai, Manoj Pai, Mayuri Jani, Mohan Asampalli, Munish Gowda, Navya Vyas, Nihal Mahesh, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Prabhudatta Bal, Pronoy Baidya, Rahul Singh, Rahul Chetre, Rajdeep Sarkar, Rajesh Panwar, Rajubhai Patel, Ramesh Shenai, Sagar Naik, Sahana M, Samir E, Samir Nama, Sandhya Lenka, Sandip Das, Santhi K, Sarabjeet Kaur, Sathish Ramamoorthy, Seema Tekam, Shashikiran Ganesh, Shayeesh Pirankar, Shilpa Gadgil, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Shivashankar Manjunatha, Shubham Rane, Shyamkumar Puravankara, Siddharth Biniwale, Siva T, Sourav Mandal, Spoorthi Nagaraju, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Sreelal K Mohan, Steffin Babu, Subhadra Devi, Sudip Simha, Sujith Vs, Sunita Dighe, Supriya Kulkarni, Sushant Pawar, Vasen Suli, Vasi ., Vidhya Swaminathan, Vidya Raju, Vijaya Lakshmi, Vishal Mistry, Vivek Kumar Patel, Vivekananda K, Vyom Vyas.

(above list updated on 23 Oct, 15:41 pm)

Besides this challenge, there was a bonus challenge, which involved uploading butterfly sightings to citizen science platforms and including links to any of your butterfly observations in the checklist comments. Here are the winners who met the bonus challenge.

Kalpana Jayaraman, Lakshmi Bharadwaj, Mehala Kumar, Rajendra Gadgil, Shilpa Gadgil, Vidhya Swaminathan

Congratulations to all these birders!

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

From these 118 names, one was drawn using a computer-generated random number. This person is Avinash Bhagat who receives a copy of The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead as a small gift in appreciation!

Are you doing your best to match the target for October?

Also, see here for the fresh set of yearlong challenges for 2023!

Header Image: Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus coeruleocephala by S S Cheema/ Macaulay Library