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PhD Researchers sharing their bird data on eBird 

This post spotlights researchers who have completed their PhDs and shared their high-quality bird datasets on eBird. These datasets, often gathered from under-studied landscapes, highlight how academic research can elevate citizen science.

Collage of three rare bird species: Ashambu Laughingthrush, Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler, and Greater Slaty Woodpecker.
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eBird India Taxonomy 2023–Summary

The 2023 eBird/Clements world checklist will be updated shorty and the entire list will reflect in your eBird account soon. Among these updates are species splits and lumps; name changes; and the insertion of new spuhs, slashes, and so on.

Blue-winged Leafbird by Parthasarathi Chakrabarti
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eBird India Taxonomy 2022–Summary

The eBird/Clements world checklist will soon get updated and the entire list will reflect in your eBird account. In terms of species splits and lumps; name changes there are minimal changes for the birders in South Asia but their impact is over a large region. The full list of changes will be posted soon.

Chinese Vivid Niltava by Rahul Kumar and Macaulay Library
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Introducing Five New Languages in eBird

We are delighted to inform you that eBird has introduced about 100 bird names in five new south Asian languages- Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, and Telugu.  These names will be seen in eBird and Birds of the World (BoW). This is in addition to Malayalam and...

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eBird India Taxonomy 2021- Summary

The eBird/Clements world checklist is now updated and the entire list will reflect in your eBird account. Among these updates are species splits and lumps; name changes; and the insertion of new spuhs, slashes, and so on. Birders in South Asia may relax this year...

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eBird India taxonomy 2019

Every year in August the bird taxonomy across the world gets updated based on eBird/Clements checklist. Birders in India can heave a sigh of relief as the changes this year for us are minor and less complicated compared to the global taxonomy. Some of these updates...

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Calling all photographers!

Merlin is coming to India... but to launch it successfully, multiple images of Indian birds are needed to train the app to identify them.

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Using eBird through the India portal

Cross-posted from http://ebird.org/content/india/news/using-ebird-india-portal/ If you are an eBirder from India, please ensure that your lists are tagged as part of the eBird India portal, and you will be helping India meet its international biodiversity...

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100,000 media and 300,000 checklists

Towards the end of 2015, eBird introduced the Media Upload option to users across the world. This gave images and audio associated with eBird checklists a permanent home in the Macaulay Library's database. A little while back, the total media uploaded to eBird from...