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eBird India Yearlong Challenge

The Bird Count India collaboration has been hosting a series of monthly eBirding challenges since April 2014. The goal is to make our birding activities a little bit more enjoyable and competitive while also collecting valuable data on bird distribution and abundance through our combined efforts.

Pale-capped Pigeon by Dipak Sinha
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2021 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

Before we announce the winners of the 2021 eBird Yearlong Challenge, here are some details on previous year's eBirding in India. Number of birders: 10,964 Number of observations: 66.99 lakh Number of lists (all types): 3.66 lakh Number of species: 1,215 Number of...

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2020 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

Here are the results of the 2020 India eBird Yearlong Challenge. Compared with 2019, the challenges for 2020 were a tiny bit harder. But birders in India love a good challenge, and a number of them managed to meet the various targets! Of all those who qualified by...

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2019 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

At long last, here are the results of the 2019 India eBird Yearlong Challenge. Compared with last year, this year a couple of the challenges were a tiny bit harder. But birders in India love a good challenge, and a number of them managed to meet the various...

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2018 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2018 eBird Yearlong Challenge. This year the challenges were a little bit harder than in 2017, but nevertheless an impressive number of birders (minus group accounts) managed to meet the various targets! Of all those...

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2016 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 eBird Yearly Challenge. Challenge Winner Prize No. Qualifiers Prolific Hari Kumar A Bird's Egg: The Most Perfect Thing Tim Birkhead 31 Abdul Raheem Munderi, Abhijith Surendran, Abhirami C, Ajay Gadikar, Ankit...

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2015 India eBird Yearlong Challenge Winners!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 eBird Yearly Challenge. Challenge Winner Prize No. Qualifiers Prolific T R Shankar Raman Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature Nick Davies 57 Abhijith Surendran, Abhirami C, Anish Aravind, Aparajita Datta, Arya Vinod, Aswathy...

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Yearlong eBirding challenges for 2016

Some of you will remember that, in addition to the regular monthly challenges, we also started a yearlong set of challenges for 2015. Please upload your remaining lists from 2015 by 15 Jan 2016 so that we can announce the winners by the end of January. But in the...

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Yearlong eBirding challenges for 2015

Please click on this new page for all yearlong India eBird challenges. Header Image: European Bee-eater Merops apiaster ©Subhadra Devi/ Macaulay...