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
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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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
# 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)