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Each winter, millions of birds belonging to hundreds of species migrate into India from latitudes further north. When do these birds come and how do they spread across the country? As the global climate changes, is the timing of migration changing too? Information is scarce and your help is needed to answer these questions.

In MigrantWatch, volunteers across the country note the dates of arrival and presence of migratory birds. No special travel or effort is required; volunteers simply note when and where they see migrant species. This simple activity, multiplied across many observers yields new and important information about bird migration in India. Summaries of first sighting data collected through MigrantWatch are available for 2007 and 2008 (pdf). 
Join more than 1,000 participants, distributed across India, in this Citizen Science project to understand how migrating birds respond to changes in the Earth's climate!

Join the Pied Cuckoo Campaign -- login to your account and click on "Pied Cuckoo Campaign". You can also read the results of last year's campaign on the MigrantWatch Blog

The 10 most recent sightings in the MigrantWatch database
  Date Species Number Location, Town, State Reported by
131-Jul-2010Pied Cuckoo1Vatadra, Cambay, GujaratNandita Amin
231-Jul-2010Common Greenshank1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra PradeshC Tom Hash
331-Jul-2010Common Redshank1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra PradeshC Tom Hash
431-Jul-2010Ruff7International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra PradeshC Tom Hash
529-Jul-2010Pied Cuckoo1Garden and fields around Villa Sabina, including Pilerne plate, Pilerne, GoaFionna Prins
628-Jul-2010Pied Cuckoo4Bhaili-Raipura Area, Vadodara, GujaratNandita Amin
727-Jul-2010Rosy Starling30Bhuj City{Outer area], Bhuj, GujaratShantilal Varu
824-Jul-2010Green Sandpiper1Madhapur, Bhuj, GujaratShantilal Varu
922-Jul-2010Pied Cuckoo1Garden and fields around Villa Sabina, including Pilerne plate, Pilerne, GoaFionna Prins
1019-Jul-2010Pied Cuckoo1Bhaili-Raipura Area, Vadodara, GujaratNandita Amin


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