14. Achievements
• Bird Atlas Kasaragod
• Bird diversity study in many locations/ Checklist
• New hotspots
• Writings, articles
• Young as well as new birders
• Campus Bird Count 2018, 2019 at Holy Family School, Kumbla.
• Facebook groups
15. Activities
• Panchayath
• Workshops, Nature Camps
• Bird name to Kidoor
• Announcing panchayath bird
• Biodiversity camps approved in recent bio diversity committee
meeting in panchayath
16. Challenges
• Lack of Birders, time, expenses
• Lack of advanced knowledge
• Lack of facilities
23. Thought?
• During 2018 Kerala Bird Monitoring meet
• Discussion were started through emails and Whatsapp
group with the help of experts
• Discussions with Kasaragod Birders
26. Operation- LTBM KASARAGOD
• Selected Methodology 3 (Aug-Oct-Dec-Feb-Jun)
• With effort of 2 hours in each location (15*8 checklists)
How it worked out?
• Whatsapp group, Reminders, Help, Support, Discussions.
27. 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.
34. Suggestions
• Need somone as a district coordinator
• Need a separate group to discuss LTBM
• Always need updations
• Need extra birders per one location.
• Some interested birders may go for monitoring multiple times a year
but later there are cases where they fail to conitnue it for long, so
selecting some methodology is important.
• Meetings, discussions are important.
35. • More scientific approach?
• Timings/ methodology?
• It will be good if we get good support from Forest department etc..
• What to do with data, Analysis part!
36. Thanks to
• Dr. Suhel Quader
• Ashwin Viswanathan
• Mittal Gala
• Subhadra Devi