Long Term Bird Monitoring is a new project started by Kasaragod Birders in 9 locations in 2018 to monitor the bird diversity, and their population trend by studying them for a long years. These slides contain full details about the plannings regarding to Long Term Bird Monitoring in Kasaragod.

1. LONG TERM BIRD MONITORING
IN SELECTED SITES OF
KASARAGOD
Maxim Rodrigues K
(Kasaragod Birders)

2. What?
• To monitor Birds in selected sites in certain months of
the year with specified time and month and
continuously for long years.
• To monitor long as possible to know the species,
abundance & changes.

3. Thought?
• During 2018 Kerala Bird Monitoring meet
• Discussions were started through emails and
Whatsapp group with the help of experts.
• Discussions with Kasaragod Birders

4. How it worked out
• 11 July 2018 email discussion (Pravin J)
• Required Details
1. Site
2. Owner
3. Primary habitat
4. Secondary hsbitat
5. Distance from the Owner’s house
6. Ebird hotspot link
so discussions were continued in the group

5. 15/07/2018 email
• A file was created with required details.
• Lack of Birders
• We had discussed about various sites
• Most of the active (ebird) birders are in N Kasaragod
• There were many sites in the south especially wetlands (Areekadav,
Kannankai etc..)

6. 16/07/2018 email
• Suggestions from C. Sashikumar to Include Sacred Groves (Kavu)
(Kammadathukavu kavu in West Eleri Panchayath)

7. 17/07/2018 email
• (Pravin J)
• Distance from the observer’s home & monitoring site
• Regular/ frequent monitoring?
1. Once in a month
2. Once in 3 month?
3. May be more frequent in Winter/passage

8. Methodology
1. Jun-Aug-Oct-Dec-Feb-Apr
2. Jun-Sep-Dec-Mar
3. Aug-Oct-Dec-Feb-Jun (Less frequent in Monsoon)

9. Locations (29/07/2018)

10. Final sites

12. Operation LTBM KASARAGOD
• Opted methodology 3 (Aug-Oct-Dec-Feb-Jun)
• With effort of 2 hours in each location (15*8 checklists)

13. Group account

14. Results
• More interesting than normal birding.
• Covered more locations with proper visits. (coastal areas)
• Able to fill birdings gaps, more lists & data
• More checklists (more data) {8*5=40, 40*9= 360 checklists/year from 9
locations).
• Helped to get more information including breeding nesting (WBSE)
• If this is applied for few more locations, we will get more data on
distribution (possible to get in touch with locals, due to continous visit)
• We have just started, more results will be based on sets of data over few
years.

15. Challenges
• Lack of birders
• Location and Birders (time & expense)
• Lack of advanced knowledge other Bird species

16. Suggestions
• Need someone as a District Coordinator
• Always need updates
• Separate group can be used for discussing LTBM
• Need extra birders per one location.
• Peak interested birders may go for monitoring multiple times a year
but later there are cases when they fail to continue it for long, so
selecting some methodology is very important.
• Meetings, discussions are also important.

17. • More scientific approach?
• Timings/ methodology?

18. List of leads (Birders)
• Raju Kidoor
• Rayan Pradeep
• Prashantha Krishna
• Sreehari K Mohan
• Maxim Rodrigues
• Rohan

19. What about in entire Kerala?

20. Thank you
Piculet.pitta@gmail.com