Common Bird Monitoring Program -2014

Results

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

Introduction to 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

Strategy14-17Feb

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

Pre-Survey Planning

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.

Survey Methodology

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)

Post-Survey Analysis

Results Overview

District Wise List Distribution

Thrissur19%

Ernakulam17%

Kannur16%

Kozhikode10%

Alappuzha8%

Thiruvananthapuram6%

Malappuram6%

Others17%

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List Density

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Species Density

Species Density – House Crow

Species Comparison: Bulbuls

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Species Comparison: Koel & Crows

Participants

No of Accepted Lists Participants

No of Accepted Lists

Premchand Reghuvaran 40 salim ei 13VINOD KUMAR P.K. 25 NANDANA V KUMAR 12hari kumar 20 Sivakumar AK 12MSSRF Bioview 17 Jafer Palot 11chithrabhanu pakaravoor 16 Jyothi Krishnan 11Jacob Thomas 15 vijesh vallikunnu 11jayaprakash m t 15 Devika V S 10Sreekumar E R 15 Soni Nambiar 10

Top Participants

Backup Slides for Discussion

District No of Accepted Lists Non-compliant Lists No. of speciesAlappuzha 53 46 134Ernakulam 110 43 158Idukki 13 17 158Kannur 105 25 112Kasargod 13 9 57Kollam 4 27 67Kottayam 9 17 94Kozhikode 66 33 116Malappuram 40 16 119Palakkad 21 22 127Pathanamthitta 24 78 75Thiruvananthapuram 42 58 97Thrissur 127 50 143Wayanad 29 14 110

District-wise Participation

Protocol No of ListseBird - Casual Observation 31eBird - Exhaustive Area Count 68eBird - Stationary Count 679eBird - Traveling Count 347eBird Random Location Count 6

Methodology/Protocol

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No of species vs No of lists in a cell

House Crow

Common Myna

Asian Koel

Rock Pigeon

Rufous Treepie

White-cheeked Barbet

Black Drongo

White-throated Kingfisher

Oriental Magpie-Robin

Indian Pond-Heron

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Large-billed Crow

Greater Coucal

Cattle Egret

Brahminy Kite

Black Kite

Jungle Babbler

Red-vented Bulbul

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Little Cormorant

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Purple-rumped Sunbird

Black-rumped Flameback

White-breasted Waterhen

Black-hooded Oriole

Little Egret

Green Bee-eater

Spotted Dove

Common Kingfisher

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Indian Golden Oriole

Common Tailorbird

Yellow-billed Babbler

Purple Sunbird

Great Egret

Pale-billed Flowerpecker

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Asian Paradise-Flycatcher

Red-wattled Lapwing

Shikra

Long-billed Sunbird

Oriental Darter

Purple Heron

Jungle Owlet

Common Hawk-Cuckoo

Whiskered Tern

Jungle Myna

Ashy Drongo

Blyth's Reed-Warbler

House Sparrow

Barn Swallow

Brown Shrike

Nutmeg Mannikin

Black-shouldered Kite

Puff-throated Babbler

Crested Hawk-Eagle

Ruddy-breasted Crake

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Salim Ali Birth Anniversary◦ Kerala Bird Race – Sunday near 12th November

Induchoodan Anusmaranam◦ June 14th

Wildlife Week Celebrations◦ October 2nd – 8th

Vacations◦ Onam (Aug / Sep)◦ Christmas (Dec last week)◦ Summer (April – May)

Birding Events

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, 26000 lists◦ Grid 1.5’ x 1.5’ 3580 cells, 71600 lists

# Lists in CBMP 1122<F, S, S, M ><03, 03,16, 03 > => 25 lists[750 lists from 30 people]

Some Statistics60’=1º~111km

20 lists / cell

Start Survey @ 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 Survey @ 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

A Sample One-day Survey

Sample Survey: Forenoon Route

9 lists in 4.5hrs

Sample Survey: Postnoon Route

7 lists in 3.5hrs

Submissions