{"id":15264,"date":"2022-05-07T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2022-05-07T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:12:00","slug":"the-indian-leg-of-the-great-backyard-bird-count-records-an-impressive-1017-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15264","title":{"rendered":"**  The Indian leg of the Great Backyard Bird Count records an impressive 1,017 species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hobby birders and students collaborated with naturalists from across the country at the 10th edition of biggest four-day bird-o-thon and documented over 1000 bird species<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pair of bright yellow eyes stared right back at Angeline Mano, a 23-year-old birder, as she zoomed in with her binoculars. Angeline was at Stanley Reservoir in Salem, one of the largest fishing reservoirs in South India, documenting birds for the recently-concluded, annual Global Backyard Bird Count (GBCC). The bulky bird with a finely streaked breast, was a brown fish owl, perched on a branch just 10 metres away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The India leg of the four-day event, coordinated by Bird Count India, allowed participants to count birds for as little as 15 minutes from a particular location. They upload their sightings online, on eBird (www.ebird.org\/india), the world\u2019s largest biodiversity-related citizen science platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobby birders and students collaborated with naturalists from across the country at the 10th edition of biggest four-day bird-o-thon and documented over 1000 bird species A pair of bright yellow eyes stared right back at Angeline Mano, a 23-year-old birder, as she zoomed in with her binoculars. Angeline was at Stanley Reservoir in Salem, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  The Indian leg of the Great Backyard Bird Count records an impressive 1,017 species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,2,3,6,8,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-green-products","category-nature","category-records-india-national","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}