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eBird

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eBird is one the best things that happened to my birding data. Over time, I have moved all of my bird observation data onto eBird. On one hand it contributes to one of the largest citizen science initiatives on birds, and on the other, it provides me a standardised way of making sense of my own bird data. If you are new and discovering eBird here, see the eBird resources at Birdcount India

In 2024, I committed to doing a full-year birding streak. This basically means that I commit to recording the complete list and number of birds seen during at least 15 minutes of birding every single day of the year wherever I am. As on 27 December, I have kept the streak alive and there appear to be strong chances of finishing the full-year birding streak!

Ongoing eBird projects1

  1. Analyse & visualise my birding data: I have just begun exploring my eBird dataset and some of that is happening here.

  1. Same exploration as above on Python 2
  2. Query-driven visualisations of eBird data
    1. Comparing House Crow & Large-billed Crow distribution in BRH/Chamarajanagar
    2. Peafowl altitudinal increases over time in BRH?
    3. Nilgiri Flowerpecker vs Pale-billed Flowerpecker abundance and distribution in BRH
  3. . Visualisations of my patch birding lists from Shaheen (BRH patch) and from IPH BRH field station hotspot
  4. eBird lists of various IPH campuses
  5. Bird lists in/around healthcare establishments in Karnataka
  6. Anomalous(?) delay in exit of winter migrants noted at BRH - especially Grey Wagtail, Greenish Warbler and Blyth’s Reed Warbler - needs confirmation using eBird data

Last updated: 2025-12-30 16:03

Footnotes

  1. All analysis being done in RStudio with code-support sought from ChatGPT (GPT-4o) from time to time, especially where my pipes in Tidyverse falter. ↩

  2. Done using Jupyter Notebooks on Google Colab; see the notebook here ↩

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