Common Bird Monitoring of India

It is a pioneer project that aims to engage general public in the collection of baseline data on 18 common bird species.

Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, launched its Common Bird Monitoring Program in 2015.

It is recommended that each site be visited thrice in a year covering three major seasons in India, summer, winter and monsoon.

[2] BNHS is conducting workshops of bird watchers across the country to train them in this methodology so that the data is robust and correct.

In the future, statistical analyses of these data can be utilized for directing conservation efforts and may help to initiate measures to protect these bird species from decline.

[3] Past examples of species that might have been helped by this kind of program include the critically endangered white-rumped vulture.