SECOND DISTRICT LEVEL MEETING VIRTUAL MEETING

1. KASARAGOD BIRD MONITORING
MEET- 2020 (5th July)
Maxim Rodrigues K
coordinator
KASARAGOD BIRDERS
piculet.pitta@gmail.com
River Tern Sterna aurantia (NT) ©Harish Babu M

2. Virtual Meet

3. A glance to 1st KGD.B.M.M 2019

4. Kasaragod Bird Monitoring Meet, 2019

6. Summary of last meeting
• Progress of Birding in Kasaragod
• Long Term Bird Monitoring Programme
Kasaragod
• Our contribution to GBBC/CBC, AWC, OBC
• Birding & Hardships of Kasaragod
• Birding Gaps & Citizen Science
Future plans

7. Current Progress of Birding in Kasaragod
336 sp July 2019
26 June 2020

8. 26 June 2020

9. GREAT EFFORT
26 June 2020
2020 January to June 26 2020

10. 2018

11. 2019

12. 2020
28 JUNE 2020
AWC
GBBC
CBC
LOCKDOWN BIRDING
Monsoon Birding

13. Let’s focus our backyards
• Best birding place
• Of course we can spend 15 minutes a day
• We have 15+ birders, we need to encourage them
• 15 min a day by 15 birders will give
• 15 checklist/day (There might be birding difficulties at some
point but it is highly possible & recommended one)
• 105 checklist/week
• 450 checklist/ month
• 5475 checklist/ year
• This means really huge data base that we are going to
create…….

14. Kerala
29 June 2020

15. KS OBSERVERS

16. KS LISTS

17. Let’s see what happened in July 2019
to June 2020
• Heronry Count 2019
• AWC COUNT 2020
• CBC
• OBC
• GBBC
• Long Term Bird Monitoring Programme

18. 1. Heronry Survey-report by Roshnath R
© Roshnath R

22. • 25% decline in population of nesting water birds
• 19 heronries = 633 nests
• 43 trees of 8 species
• Padanakkad (96 nests) and Uliyathadukka (58
nests) were the major heronry sites
• may be due to adverse weather conditions
• Flood and associated drought previous year
followed by lack of summer rains and monsoon
might have declined the number of breeding
birds

23. 2. AWC 2020 KASARAGOD

24. WATERBIRD COUNT 2020 (AWC)
• AWC?
• Asian Waterbird Census
• Largest census of waterbirds organised by
Wetlands International
• To count wetland birds
• To know their presence
• To estimate their population
• To know their distribution

25. AWC 2020
• Cover all major wetlands in January
• Major wetlands are in the south Kasaragod
• Only single long list is required from each
locations
• Share the checklist to a common account
awckasaragod
(new account since 2020)

26. Participants
KASARAGOD BIRDERS
RAJU KIDOOR, SHYAMKUMAR PURAVANKARA,
ROHAN RAI, JESHMA JEVITA DSOUZA, PRANAV KARLE,
HARISH BABU & SANURAJ T.K, MAXIM RODRIGUES

27. WHY WE NEED TO COUNT WATERBIRDS?
• LONG TERM MONITORING (Population
changes)
• WHERE?
• LAKES, ESTUARIES, PADDYFIELDS

28. AWC DONE 2020
1. ARANTHODE (MAXIM)
2. BAMBRANABAYALU (RAJU KIDOOR & PRANAV KARLE)
3. BATTEKALA, VORKADY (MAXIM & ROHAN)
4. CHEMMATAMVAYAL (Shyamkumar, Jeshma & Maxim)
5. CHITTARI ESTUARY (HARISH BABU)
6. GOLIDHADI, KUNJATHUR PADDYFIELDS (MAXIM & ROHAN)
7. KANVATHEERTHA (MAXIM & ROHAN)
8. KUMBLA-SHIRIYA ESTUARY (MAXIM)
9. MANJESHWAR (MAXIM & ROHAN)
10. PADU PUTHIGE (MAXIM & JESHMA)
11. PAVOOR AREA (MAXIM & ROHAN)
12. PERALATHVAYAL (Shyamkumar, Jeshma & Maxim)
13. PUTHIGE WETLAND (MAXIM & JESHMA)
14. KANNANKAI WETLAND (PILICODE) (MAXIM & SANURAJ)
15. AREEKADAV (MAXIM & SANURAJ)

29. FROM THE FIELD

30. ©Raju Kidoor

33. RESULTS (total sp)

34. Threatened Birds
SL NO
English name
Threat_2018
1Asian Woollyneck Vulnerable
2Black-headed Ibis Near Threatened
3Oriental Darter Near Threatened
4Eurasian Curlew Near Threatened
5Black-tailed Godwit Near Threatened
6Rufous-bellied Eagle Near Threatened
7Grey-headed Bulbul Near Threatened
Praveen et.al., 2019

37. • Good birding for Jan
• More public participation
• More outreach towards public through medias
• News, whatsapp, facebook, blog

38. What more?
• Proper planing
• Monitoring same location every year (LTBM)
• Gap between birders

39. Other aims
• Public awareness
• Issues related to specific wetlands
• Point of Conservation

40. 3. Campus Bird Count (CBC) 2020
• Not done so actively in Kasaragod
• Sub event of GBBC during feb ever year.
• Some one can work as coordinator and try to
conduct CBC in various schools across the
district

41. Holy Family School, Kumbla @ Raju Kidoor
42 sp of Birds

42. • Efforts from Shyamkumar Puravankara &
Harish Babu M
• Possible to add CBC from more schools in
coming years

43. 4. ENDEMIC BIRD DAY
9 MAY 2020

44. Birded Hotspots
65
40
38
29
15
9
Chemmatamvayal Kidoor Kuniyan Thalabail Kamanabail Edattummal
No of Species
No of Species

45. 65
43
39
37
29 28
22 21 21
19
15 15
13 13
9 8 8 7
9
7
4 3 4
10
3
12
7
4 4
2 1 1 1
4
1 1
KASARAGOD BIRDERS EFFORT
No of Species No of Checklist

46. ENDEMIC (WESTERN GHATS)
English Name Scientific Name
Grey-fronted Green Pigeon Treron affinis
Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus
Malabar Barbet Psilopogon malabaricus
Nilgiri Flowerpecker Dicaeum concolor
Flame-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus gularis
Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa
Malabar Starling Sturnia blythii

47. Total Species recorded: 109
Thanks to everyone for your
valuable contributions

48. GLOBAL BIG DAY MAY
2015-2020 SUMMARY
MAXIM RODRIGUES K
KASARAGOD BIRDERS

49. 2015
33
2
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1 2
NoofSpecies
No of Checklists
Shyamkumar Puravankara

50. 2017
61
18
26
10
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
1 2
NoofSpecies
No of Checklists
Sreehari K Mohan
Pradeep Kidoor

51. 2019
41
20
33
39
10
7
4
1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Manoj Karingamadathil Sachin Chandran Pradeep Chandran AJ Raju Kidoor
No of Species No of Checklists

52. 2020
65
43
39
37
29 28
22 21 21
19
15 15
13 13
9 8 8 7
9
7
4 3 4
10
3
12
7
4 4
2 1 1 1
4
1 1
No of Species No of Checklist

53. 33
61
26
39 38
30
11
0
65
40
38
29
15
9
NoofSpecies
Hotspots v/s No of Species 2015-2020

54. 2015-2020
1
0
2
0
4
18
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
No of Birders v/s May Global Big Day
No of Birders

55. 2
0
19
0
22
78
33
0
66
0
65
109
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Checklists Species

56. Thanks to everyone for your
valuable contributions

57. 5. LONG TERM BIRD MINITORING
(LTBM)

58. 5. LONG TERM BIRD MINITORING
(LTBM)

59. Diversity Whats next ?
31
84
111
119 120
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Aranthode SRC
Series184
152 156
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
2016 2017 2018
Kidoor Species Accumulation Curve
Series1

60. Bird Monitoring
• Find answers to these questions
1. What are our common Birds
2. Are they doing well?
3. What habitats are good & what habitats are
bad?
4. Are their number changing across years?
5. Why are their number changing?
6. Are there relationship between two species?
7. Need special attention to any species/ groups
8. Involve Public ?

62. New methodology
• July 15 to Sep 15?
• July and August?
• Jan 15 to Mar 15 or
• Jan and Feb

63. 2020- agenda
• Progress of Birding in Kasaragod (discussed)
• Long term bid monitoring (LTBM)
• Our contribution to Onam count, AWC & CBC
• Future plans

64. Onam Bird Count
• Be ready for birding with date which will be
announced later
• As name implies this count will be during
Onam which is a well known festival in Kerala
• Wherever you go add checklist with some
minimum time of observations with your
friends and family.

65. eBirders of 2020 (June)
• https://ebird.org/top100?locInfo.regionCode=
IN-KL-KS&yr=cur
• About 49 people contributed till 26 june 2020
• About 21 were from Kasaragod

66. 2020-2021 plans
• Onam Bird count
• CBC
• AWC
• LTBM
• Use all special days at least encourage people
to do

67. Birding and Hardships of Kasaragod
Birders
• Problems ?
• Why we lack in data ?
• Validity/ outputs of various workshops ?

68. Would like to congratulate effort in Kidoor
• 1. Kidoor Bird Fest 2019
• 2. renaming a road name with Kidoor’s iconic
species OBGP road.

70. Importance of writing articles

71. DISCUSSIONS?

72. What Group of birds is special to our
district?
• Forest?
• Waders?
• Waterbirds?
• Migratories?
• Can we contribute more towards
understanding those birds?

73. What areas in the district are birding
blind spots?
What we can do to cover those areas?
• Hilly regions
• Forests areas
• Northern regions specially east
• Southwest region

74. What habitats in the district are least
known/studied?
• Grasslands
• Forests
• Coastal wetlands (beaches, estuaries)
• Wetlands

75. How can we bring more young
naturalists into this monitoring group?
• More effort required from each of us
• Someone should coordinate them
• Keep encouraging, helping and supporting
them
• Take them to field, help them to learn new
things
• Nothing is lost by sharing

76. How can we improve scientific
outputs? (research papers, articles,
conference) from our district ?
• Document things in literature
• Keep encouraging those who try to do these
• Try to convert observation into literary
documents

77. How can we influence press to write
more about district’s birds?
• Already we received help from few journalists
• (Lavina Permude, Saibadra Rai etc)
• Write and send more to press
• P Satheesh writes well in Kannada local paper

78. How can we involve teachers and
children in bird monitoring?
• CBC
• Awareness/ nature camps
• Competitions
• Birding through art

79. Are there existing bird watchers who
are not covered under the umbrella of
bird monitoring network?
How can we bring them into the
network?

80. Are we participating in Wetland &
Heronry counts?

81. Are we participating in GBBC, OBC,CBC
Counts?

82. Can we have plans to pelagic trips?
• Aug-Oct
• Mar-May

83. Is enough photo & audio
documentation to this common
database happening in our district?
• How to improve?

84. Do we need bird identification
workshops for the mid level bird
watchers (including beginners)?
• How can we organize ?

85. Everyone cannot do/learn everything.
• We need some people to develop some special
skills that will improve the outputs of the group?
• Specialization in data analysis
• Web design
• Scientific writing
• Press relations
• Forest admiration relations
• Bird identification
• Etc…

86. Conclusion

87. Acknowledgement
• Kasaragod Birders
• Prashantha Krishna MC
• Volunteers
• Roshnath R
• Praveen J et al
• Social Forestry Division Kasaragod