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 Find answers to these questions  What are our common birds ?  Are they doing well?  What habitats are good and what habitats are bad ?  Are their numbers changing across years ?  Why are their numbers changing ?  Are there relationship between two species ?  Positive (Koel & Crows) or Negative (Babblers) ?  Need special attention to any species / groups ?  Involve public. Impact education through CBMP

 Kerala Forest Department – Social Forestry  Green Partners Program  Use  Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) Dates  Pan Kerala - Involve all Green Partners (GP)  Limited to non-forest areas  Identify Regional Coordinators amongst GP  Invite new birders to participate via training  Automated submissions from Kerala towards Big Bird Day (BBD) & GBBC Feb

 Publish Methodology to all GP  Media Publicity ◦ Electronic & Newspapers ◦ Center Page in Vidhya of Mathrubhoomi  Prepare Centralised Training Material on ◦ eBird Introduction ◦ Bird Identification  Workshops in all district HQs  Mobilise regular bird-watchers

 Create eBird Account  Watch birds around ur home/workplace  List species seen and their numbers  Each list strictly 15 minute duration  Submit in eBird by selecting the location  Mark the species seen & their numbers  Submit at least 3 lists in 4 days.

 Sorted lists based on districts  Assigned lists to district reviewers  Reviewers identified data quality issues ◦ Location Imprecise, Likely Misidentification, Wrong Protocol, Unlikely number etc.  Reviewers mailed/called the observer for clarification / correction  Analysed data at state level & cell level ◦ Cell size is 15’ x 15’ (15’ = 0.25 degrees ~ 27km)

No of Lists No of Cells

Red-vented Red-whiskered

Yellow-billed Jungle

Participants No of Accepted ListsParticipants No of Accepted Lists Premchand Reghuvaran40salim ei13 VINOD KUMAR P.K.25NANDANA V KUMAR12 hari kumar20Sivakumar AK12 MSSRF Bioview17Jafer Palot11 chithrabhanu pakaravoor16Jyothi Krishnan11 Jacob Thomas15vijesh vallikunnu11 jayaprakash m t15Devika V S10 Sreekumar E R15Soni Nambiar10

DistrictNo of Accepted ListsNon-compliant ListsNo. of species Alappuzha Ernakulam Idukki Kannur Kasargod13957 Kollam42767 Kottayam91794 Kozhikode Malappuram Palakkad Pathanamthitta Thiruvananthapuram Thrissur Wayanad

Protocol No of Lists eBird - Casual Observation31 eBird - Exhaustive Area Count68 eBird - Stationary Count679 eBird - Traveling Count347 eBird Random Location Count6

65% No of Species No of Lists

 Salim Ali Birth Anniversary ◦ Kerala Bird Race – Sunday near 12 th November  Induchoodan Anusmaranam ◦ June 14 th  Wildlife Week Celebrations ◦ October 2 nd – 8 th  Vacations ◦ Onam (Aug / Sep) ◦ Christmas (Dec last week) ◦ Summer (April – May)

 Total Area:38, 863 sq.km  Non-Forest Area:27, 554 sq.km ◦ Grid 15’ x 15’ 35 cells, 700 lists ◦ Grid 10’ x 10’ 80 cells, 1600 lists ◦ Grid 5’ x 5’ 322 cells, 6440 lists ◦ Grid 2.5’ x 2.5’ 1300 cells, lists ◦ Grid 1.5’ x 1.5’ 3580 cells, lists # Lists in CBMP 1122 => 25 lists [750 lists from 30 people] 60’=1º~111km 20 lists / cell

 Start 6:00 AM from your home  Use a vehicle – motorbike or car or bicycle  Survey for 15 minutes, Travel for 15minutes ◦ Repeat it over a round trip  Stop 10:30 AM at your home ◦ You generate 9 lists in 4.5 hrs  Repeat Survey between 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM ◦ Same route or different route. ◦ You generate 7 lists in 3.5hrs 16 lists in one day

9 lists in 4.5hrs

7 lists in 3.5hrs

Submissions