In the last ten years, the eBird community in India has grown tremendously. One of the landmark birding events in the country, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) has seen participation grow from just 200 birders in 2013 to 2954 birders in 2021. In late 2020, we...
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...
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...
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...
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...
