Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop

Date: 14 June 2015

Venue: Seminar Hall, College of Forestry, Thrissur

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Introductions, Agenda Review, Review of 2014 Minutes

10:00-11:00 CMBP: Results, Concerns & Improvements

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:15 Bird Atlas: Introduction & Overview (Presentation)

12:15-13:00 Bird Atlas: Requirements & Broad Plan

13:00-13:45 Lunch Break

13:45-14:15 Poster Presentation

14:15-15:00 Bird Atlas: Detailed Plan & Coordination

15:00-15:15 Outreach for Bird Atlas

15.15-15:30 Heronry Count: Results, Concerns & Actions

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-16:00 Pelagic Survey: Concerns & Realignment

16.00-16:15 AWC: Results & Concerns

16:15-16:30 AOB/Conclusion

Onam Bird Count (OBC): Success

SEED Collaboration: Dropped

CBMP/OBC KFD Collaboration: Partial

Training Program (August): Partial

Teachers Training Program (SEED): Dropped

Fine Tune Training Material: Done

Move Kerala Bird Race to eBird: Partial

Create OBC Poster: Done

Publish OBC results in Vidhya: Dropped

CBMP Training (December): Partial

AWC Onfield Training: Partial

CBMP/GBBC: Success

Using Excel/Hard/Proxy: Limited

Release Poster to Press: Dropped

KFD /Minister Poster Release: Done

Distribution of Poster: Partial

Workshop Press Release: Dropped

Setup District Reviewers: Done

Altitude Filters: Pending

AWC Counts: Success

Modified AWC Protocol: Done

KFD Support for AWC: Success

AWC Data in eBird: Partial

Data Collection for AWC: Partial

Heronry Counts: Partial

Define Heronry Protocol: Done

KFD Support for Heronry: Minimal

Heronry Data in eBird: Done

State Heronry Report: Done

Heronry Protection Action: Pending

Pelagic Surveys: Limited

KFD Support for Pelagic: Partial

Define Pelagic Protocol Done

Pelagic Data in eBird: Partial

Results, Concerns, Improvement

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CBMP 2015 % Lists Onam 2014 %Lists CBMP 2014 %Lists

House Crow 56.8 House Crow 66.3 House Crow 55.4

Common Myna 37.0 Common Myna 39.8 Common Myna 37.9

White-cheeked Barbet 36.8 Indian Pond-Heron 32.8 Asian Koel 34.0

Asian Koel 33.7 Rufous Treepie 30.5 White-cheeked Barbet 31.4

Black Drongo 31.7 Black Drongo 26.3 Black Drongo 30.3

Rufous Treepie 29.9 White-throated Kingfisher 25.9 Oriental Magpie-Robin 29.7

White-throated Kingfisher 26.5 Jungle Crow 23.4 Blue Rock Pigeon 28.6

Indian Pond-Heron 26.2 Brahminy Kite 23.2 White-throated Kingfisher 26.4

Blue Rock Pigeon 25.6 Little Cormorant 23.2 Indian Pond-Heron 26.1

Oriental Magpie-Robin 24.4 White-cheeked Barbet 22.1 Jungle Crow 25.5

September 2014

hari kumar 69

Dr George P J 41

chithrabhanu pakaravoor 37

Premchand Reghuvaran 35

Sivakumar AK 33

Anjali J 32

SYAMILI MANOJ 31

radhika renganadh 31

Arya Vinod 30

Jaichand Johnson 29

Arjun R 29

February 2015

Sreekumar E R 102

SYAMILI MANOJ 96

Premchand Reghuvaran 88

Niranjana C 79

chithrabhanu pakaravoor 76

HARITHA KRISHNAN 75

nithin mohan 72

Devika V S 70

hari kumar 70

Anjali J 68

abha manohark/Jyothi Krishnan 64

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Yellow-billed

Jungle

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Training Material for training – Adequate ? Improvements ?

Organization hurdles

Effectiveness & Recruitment pattern

On field training

Load on trainers, availability of trainers ?

Support from KFD

15min, Count all Species Is the message clear enough ?

eBird Usage issues from participants Issue with eBird filters ?

Reviews. Were they effective ?

eBird Interface for reviews ?

Are participating responding ?

Load on Reviewers CBMP

General

Conflicts Volunteers confused due to GBBC ?

Volunteers confused due to other programmes ?

Not enough conviction to participate ?

Districts CBMP 2015 Onam 2014 CBMP 2014

Thrissur 1106 241 127

Pathanamthitta 425 38 24

Alappuzha 389 158 53

Ernakulam 223 54 110

Palakkad 162 53 21

Thiruvananthapuram 128 120 42

Kannur 94 27 105

Malappuram 83 30 40

Kollam 82 59 4

Kottayam 65 46 9

Kozhikode 61 63 66

Wayanad 20 13 29

Kasargod 16 0 13

Idukki 7 13 13

Lists

Invalid Lists

Participants

Species

Feb

1122

466

319

280

Sept

976

42

112

235

FEB-14 SEP-14 FEB-15

# Observers Avg±SD (Samples)

1 08.71±6.01(1773)

2 11.77±8.19(666)

3 09.69±6.17(184)

4 10.75±5.43(37)

5 07.89±6.87(37)

Protocol Avg±SD (Samples)

Stationary 07.64±5.97(911)

Traveling 10.53±6.93(1785)

Concerns