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Hello Bird Count India Supporter
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Welcome to our regular update emails from Bird Count India, summarising recent articles of interest from our website.
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In this series we highlight birders who have been faithfully visiting their patch, through this, learning the details of the birdlife and its seasonality there. 1. Please tell us about yourself: where do you live and what do you do? I spent my initial days in Mangalore and later shifted to Mysore to work in a bank. In 1997, I… read more »
Coimbatore City Bird Atlas (CCBA) is a citizen science project to map the distribution and abundance of birds of the Coimbatore city using field surveys between 2020 and 2022. The city was gridded and divided into thirty-seven, 3.3 km x 3.3 km cells. Each cell is a sampling unit. The cells were then further sub-divided into nine 1.1 km x… read more »
The all-India lockdown began towards the end of March, but people had already begun restricting their movements some days before. Despite this, there was a lot of birding in March. It isn’t straightforward to compare birding with the previous months, though, because February has higher-than-average birding due to the Great Backyard Bird Count. Here is the breakup of eBirding in… read more »
A Black Drongo swings to and fro mobbing a perched kite, a noisy Ashy Prinia visits a certain undergrowth repeatedly, a Purple Sunbird in his brilliant metallic blue plumage sings loudly from its favorite wire perch while turning its head side to side. All these, indicate that our birds have started breeding! From defending their nests by mobbing larger birds… read more »
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That's all for this update. Until next time, do keep eBirding!
Regards
Bird Count India
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