3 million checklists and 3 million media on eBird!
Indian birders have now uploaded 3,000,000 checklists, almost 3,000,000 photographs, and over 1,50,000 bird sounds!
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Using eBird Data for Research
In India, eBird adoption started in 2013 and there are now (March 2022) 30 million observations, 1.6 million images, 80,000 audio, and 10,000 videos. This mammoth yet free database is being increasingly used by scientists and citizens for the purpose of bird...
Fifty thousand to Five hundred thousand!!
From 50,000 photographs and 2000 sound recordings in 2016, we today have crossed an astonishing number of 5,00,000 photographs and 18, 000 bird sounds in eBird India. Thanks to the efforts of eBirders like you! Here are some of the benefits of uploading media to...
Merlin Bird ID comes to India!
The wait is finally over, the Merlin Bird ID mobile app will now be able to identify common Indian birds! Merlin, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is designed as a 'birding coach' for beginning and intermediate birders. As of 9th Feb 2019, the latest...
2017 – a quick review
2017 was the biggest year yet for Bird Count India since it's inception in 2014.
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.
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...
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...
50k bird images
A few days ago, eBird India passed 50,000 bird photos, uploaded since the media feature was implemented back in November 2015. This means that, on average, over 100 photos per day of Indian birds have been uploaded over the past year -- a rate that is perhaps not...
One million bird records from Kerala
When Tony Antony recorded two Scaly-breasted (Spotted) Munias in his list from Erayilkadavu Bypass Road, Kottayam, on Sunday, 20 November 2016, the number of records uploaded to eBird from Kerala reached 1 million! With more than 70,000 checklists, covering 499 of...
eBird India portal launched
We are very happy to announce the launch of the eBird India portal today. More and more birders from India are using eBird to maintain their bird sightings and to run local or regional projects. But until now, the content available on the eBird site has not been...
Half a million bird records from India
Earlier this month, we crossed the (half!) milestone of 500,000 bird records from India in the eBird database. A 'record' describes the occurrence of a species together with information on location, date and time. The 500,000th record was that of Blue-faced...
