Might be of interest.
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Debabrata Phukon
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From: Suhel Quader <suhelq@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 12:25 PM
Subject: State of India's Birds 2020
To: Young Ecologists Talk & Interact YETI <meetyeti@xxxxxxxxx>
Could you please post on the YETI email list?
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Dear all,
India doesn't yet have a systematic countrywide monitoring programme for
common birds. It will take a lot of effort and considerable time to build
such an effort; in the meantime, we don't have the luxury of time to answer
the critical question: how are India's birds faring?
The best available data to answer this question comes from the large number
of birdwatchers who fan out across the country every week (sometimes every
day) looking for birds and noting them down.
In the 6+ years since Bird Count India (birdcount.in) has been working to
encourage birders to document their observations on the eBird platform (
ebird.org/india), a considerable amount of information has been generated:
18,700 birders have uploaded just shy of 1 million checklists from across
the country, including a large number of historical lists.
With these data in hand, a consortium of ten research and conservation
institutions set out to address the original question: how are India's
birds faring? The result is a report on the State of India's Birds, which
was released last week.
The report uses three measures: 1) long-term (25+ years) change in
abundance; 2) current (5 years) change in abundance; and 3) range size, to
come up with a classification of species into High (101 spp), Moderate (319
spp) and Low (442 spp) categories of conservation concern for India.
If you are interested, do visit *www.stateofindiasbirds.in
<http://www.stateofindiasbirds.in>* to download summary sheets, the full
report, and supplementary materials.
On behalf of the State of India's Birds partnership:
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment
Bombay Natural History Society
Foundation for Ecological Security
National Biodiversity Authority
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Nature Conservation Foundation
Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History
Wetlands International South Asia
Wildlife Institute of India
Worldwide Fund for Nature—India
