All Indian districts now have eBirding!
November 2023 was a special month. Bird Count India collective achieved a special milestone. Now, all Indian districts, 735 of them, have eBirding!
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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Slashes and Spuhs
All of us love birds and identifying them. Part of the joy of birding is to be able to correctly put a name to a bird based on observations and features noted in the field. However, as one birds more, one also accepts that it is not always possible to identify...
How can my group use eBird to monitor and document birds?
Most of of the information available about eBird focuses on how it can be used as a tool for our individual birding. But one can also use the powers of eBird to run a bird monitoring project using a large number of volunteers. This has been done in the past, from...
eBird Mobile
The eBird app for mobile phones was launched in 2015 and now more and more birders keep track of their sightings directly on the app, while they are out in the field. The app is available for iPhone and Android phones, and has a number of very nice features, which...
