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Great Thick-knee (Great Stone-curlew) Esacus recurvirostris © Yash Kothiala/ Macaulay Library

February 2024 eBirders of the Month

Congratulations to Prasanna Kalita– winner of the February 2024 eBird-India Challenge! Prasanna’s name was drawn randomly from the 581 eBirders who submitted 33 checklists with at least 8 of the lists uploaded during the GBBC dates.

Collared Falconets by Chaiti Banerjee

Birder Profile—Chaiti Banerjee

This month’s Birder Profile features Chaiti Banerjee, an avid birder who enjoys traveling for birdwatching and also observes birds from her window when not on the go.

Campus Bird Count at Arivu School in Mysuru

Great Backyard Bird Count 2024—Preliminary Results

Every day, at least 2,180 birdwatchers from India came together for the 4 days (3,119 birdwatchers on Day 3!), documented 1,036 species, and uploaded over 61,000 checklists

Green-billed Malkoha by Chonseng Sangma

March 2024 eBirding Challenge

The challenge for March is to upload at least 31 eligible lists* out of which 2 should be from 2 different hotspots visited before

Bunting Count

Join the 2nd edition of Bunting Count where Asian countries are teaming up to monitor buntings for conservation. The goal is to raise awareness and conduct baseline studies on key bunting sites, as they face significant threats within the passerine family. Join by sharing your eBird checklists featuring bunting species from 1 Oct 2023 to 30 Apr 2024, using eBird ID: HKBWS Landbird.

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01 October 2023 1 Oct 2023 - 30 April

Dawn Chorus Day

Dawn Chorus Day is a celebration of birdsong! The collective sounds of birds in the morning are referred to as the "dawn chorus." The dawn chorus of birds is not […]

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07 April 2024 All day
Migration Maps

Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) breeds across the eastern Palearctic and primarily winters in Northeast India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia.

Bird Atlases

A bird atlas is a citizen science project intended to map the distribution and abundance of a region’s birds. In an atlas project, the region of interest is typically divided into cells that are often subdivided into smaller cells, a design that can ensure uniform sampling in space by volunteer birdwatchers.

ID Articles

A series of articles to help with the identification of difficult birds.

Dark egrets can be white…

By Ramit Singal The previous article focussed on the 4 regularly occurring white egrets from India. In this follow-up post, the attention will shift to egrets that happen to be dimorphic, i.e., they have a dark morph as well as a white morph. The Reef-Egrets are...

Bushlarks, Skylarks, & Crested Larks

By Ramit Singal Hopefully, you've had some practice over the past month(s) in telling apart larks from pipits. In this article, we'll try and give some tips to tell between 3 different groups of larks and the species within these groups. We'll start with the...

Frequency Matters: Acoustic Identification of Barbets

By Anand Krishnan Barbets are some of the most ubiquitous of India’s fruit-eating birds, even occupying most major cities where fruiting trees remain. These sluggish, largely green birds are often heard before they are seen, their loud, repetitive calls betraying...

Identifying Waders: Part 1

In the first part of the series related to identifying waders, we try and tackle an often misidentified group consisting of the Tringa sandpipers.

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

माशीमार कसे ओळखावे

माशीमार कसे ओळखावे: लाल छातीचा माशीमार (Red-breasted Flycatcher), लाल-कंठाचा माशीमार (Taiga Flycatcher) आणि काश्मिरी माशीमार (Kashmir Flycatcher) इंग्रजीत प्रकाशीत झालेल्या मूळ लेखाचा हा मराठी अनुवाद आहे. लेखक : तरुण मेनन आणि अश्विन विश्वनाथन, अनुवादक : स्वरूप...

Bushlarks, Skylarks, & Crested Larks

By Ramit Singal Hopefully, you've had some practice over the past month(s) in telling apart larks from pipits. In this article, we'll try and give some tips to tell between 3 different groups of larks and the species within these groups. We'll start with the...

Frequency Matters: Acoustic Identification of Barbets

By Anand Krishnan Barbets are some of the most ubiquitous of India’s fruit-eating birds, even occupying most major cities where fruiting trees remain. These sluggish, largely green birds are often heard before they are seen, their loud, repetitive calls betraying...

Field Identification of Green and Greenish Warblers

By Ramit Singal Green and Greenish Warblers have always been notoriously difficult to tell apart. Till recently, Green Warbler (P. nitidus) was considered to be a subspecies of the Greenish Warbler (P. trochiloides). Considering the difficulties involved in...

Dark egrets can be white…

By Ramit Singal The previous article focussed on the 4 regularly occurring white egrets from India. In this follow-up post, the attention will shift to egrets that happen to be dimorphic, i.e., they have a dark morph as well as a white morph. The Reef-Egrets are...

Is that a Pipit or a Lark?

By Ramit Singal Few birds are as confusing to the beginning birder as Pipits and Larks. The first step towards identifying the species within the two families is to be able to tell between a pipit and a lark. Here is a short guide to telling apart these confusing...

Cormorants Clarified

By Ramit Singal Ever seen a V-shaped flock of black birds flying purposefully in the sky near a water body? Or a black bird sitting still with its wings spread out in a small village pond? Or a bird's head sticking out of the water at a lake or pond? Did you notice...

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