Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)

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About Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)-

• It is a global bird count, during which thousands of birdwatchers all across the world look for birds for four days in February each year. 
• Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the GBBC was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real time.

• GBBC India is the Indian implementation of the global Great Backyard Bird Count.bbbb

• GBBC India is coordinated by e-bird India and Birdcount-India, a coming-together of a number of groups and organizations that are interested in birds, nature and conservation.
• The global GBBC is organized by Cornell University and the Audubon Society in the US.
• The main aim is to get people excited about birdwatching by making it a fun, free and accessible event for everyone.
• The participants can count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) from a particular location on one or more days of the four-day event. 
• Then, they upload their sightings online on eBird (www.ebird.org/india) , the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science platform.

• In 2021, the three most common birds reported in India are common myna, red-vented bulbul and rose-ringed Parakeet.

• India also ranked second in the world in the number of species documented during the event.
• As a result of this, a State of India’s Birds report was created, which is a comprehensive assessment of distribution range, trends in abundance, and conservation status for most of the bird species that regularly occur in India.

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