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First sighting results for 2007

The illustrations below depict the distribution of reported first sighting dates of the nine target species from across the country. They are based on a technical article in Indian Birds1. Details of the criteria used for inclusion in these figures are described in the article. There were nine target species in the 2007/08 migration season; currently all winter migrants are being tracked in MigrantWatch

Species maps


Date vs latitude



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1 Quader, S. & Raza, R. H. 2007. MigrantWatch: A citizen science programme for the study of bird migration. Indian Birds Vol. 3 No. 6. pp 202-209. (Published in 2008.) [Download PDF; 2Mb]

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