FIFTH COIMBATORE BIRD RACE ON 31ST JANUARY 2016

Along with Hong kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) and Yuhina Eco-Media, Mumbai, SACON is organizing a Bird Race in Coimbatore on 31st January 2016. The India Bird Race is a dawn-to-dusk event where a large gathering of experienced and budding birdwatchers spend an entire day spotting and identifying birds in an effort to record as many species of birds as possible.

It is my pleasure to invite all our bird watcher friends of Coimbatore to take part in this event. As this year mark the silver Jubilee (25th) Year of SACON, I greatly appreciate your full support in all the nature education activities including this one. I request all members to take part in the Bird Race this year. Participants may have to form a team with an experienced bird watcher as the team leader. Maximum number of members permitted in a team is four. Please register your team on or before 26th January 2016. Registration forms (refer below) should be filled in advance and submitted to the coordinator at SACON. Just sending application does not guarantee the participation in the programme. Details of all the teams and their routes, detailed rules of the race will be available in the Nature Education Website of SACON (www.saconeducation.org) 29th January onwards for every body’s knowledge. On 31st, the race should start at 6.00 am, later on the day there will be a get together for an interactive experience sharing session at 7.00 p.m. followed by dinner in Hotel City Tower, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore.

With warm regards
Dr.P.Pramod
Principal Scientist &
Coordinator, Coimbatore Bird Race

The race should start at 6.00 am can go up to 5.00 p.m. All teams have to submit the filled data sheet to the jury committee by 5.30 p.m. at Hotel City tower.

There will be a get together, meeting followed by dinner in the Hotel (6.30- 8.30 pm)

The application without the valid email ID and cell phone number will not be considered.
The locations which are not mentioned in the application form will not be considered.

All members of one team should go together. Splitting of team is not allowed.

NOTE: TO DOWNLOAD BIRD RACE 2016 REGISTRATION FORM, CLICK HERE

TO DOWNLOAD BIRD RACE 2016 WORKSHEET, CLICK HERE

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 RULES TO BE FOLLOWED

• *    A team can go maximum 40 km away from City Centre (ie. Gandhipuram).
• *    Captain or any one member should carry a mobile phone in the field and that number should be intimated to the coordinator.
• *    Cannot change the members now.
• *    The list of the birds in the appropriate format (given to you already and also attached with this mail) should be submitted to the coordinating team on or before 6.00 at Hotel City Tower.
• *    Every team should mention in their data sheet, what they consider is the bird of the day and the exciting observation of the event.
• *    Names, Phone and email of all the members should be given clearly in the data sheet
• *    No splitting of the group and members going to different places simultaneously during bird race.
• *    Happy to inform you that the Commissioner of Coimbatore Corporation has kindly agreed to be chief guest for the function.
• *    All participants are invited to the meeting for experience sharing and dinner thereafter in the Hotel City Tower in Gandhipuram.

Wish you all an eventful and exciting birding.

BIRD RACE 2016 – PARTICIPANTS’ LIST

S.No	Captain Name	Team Name	Contact No.	Email ID
1	Haridas M		9442261063	haridas_maniketh@rediffmail.com
2	Chetan H Joshi	Shaheen	9360333379	chetankumarjoshi@gmail.com
3	Paventhan	Sirkeer Malkoha	9952200334	pave67620@yahoo.co.in
4	Balaji PB	Monarch	9942222141	balaji@chandranspoultry.com
5	M. Vijayaraj	Hornbill	9894714646	vijayaraj.19@gmail.com
6	Sudarsan MurthyD	Oriole	7200072159	sudarsan.1687@gmail.com
7	Suguna Saravanan	Emerald Dove	9379945582	sugysarva@gmail.com
8	Ravindran	Jungle crow	9994845454	ravindran.pk@kggroup.com
9	Varshini		9943682774	varshini_birds@yahoo.co.in
10	Amit Mathur			reachamitmathur@yahoo.com
11	Mansur Ahamed	Harriers	9976767676	manuahamed@gmail.com
12	Pavithra R (PSGG School)			psggkanyagurukulamghss@gmail.com
13	Sangara Gomathi (PSGG School)			psggkanyagurukulamghss@gmail.com
14	R. Sharmila	Golden Oriole	9486010578
15	M. Gokul Raj	Common Hoopoe	9994126784
16	S. Vivek kumar	Flamingo	9688102167
17	Osai – Team 1		9976767676
18	K. Mohan Raj	Myna	9363147760	justmacmohan@gmail.com
19	Lakshminarayan	Indian Pitta	9843081966	lakshminaraynan6@gmail.com
20	Francis Xavier		9443889722	outreachi@gmail.com
21	Saravanan C	Osprey	9003099199	sarankgc@gmail.com
22	Vijayakumar	Pelican	8056446075	vijikkovai@gmail.com
23	C. Divyapriya	Common Iora	9962581286	cdp08india@gmail.com
24	Madhumita P	Florican	9486947782	simba.atease@gmail.com
25	Shanthala devi
26	Ajaikumar Ramamoorthy	Crow	8220000096	ajai@tpcc.co.in
27	Indira S	Great Indian Hornbill	8508795274	indirasrinivasan1322@gmail.com
28	Jishnu C P	Black & orange flycatcher	9843593677	jishnu.rider@gmail.com
29	R. Vasudevan	Paradise flycatcher	9360046460	surveyorvasudevan@yahoo.co.in
30	Suguna Saravanan	Shikra		sugysarva@gmail.com

Happy Birding !

 

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ARCHIVES…

FOURTH COIMBATORE BIRD RACE ON 22^ND FEBRUARY 2015

Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History, along with Hong HSBC and Yuhina Eco-Media, Mumbai, SACON is organizing a Bird Race in Coimbatore on 22nd February 2015. The India Bird Race is a dawn-to-dusk event where a large gathering of experienced and budding birdwatchers spend an entire day spotting and identifying birds in an effort to record as many species of birds as possible.

More than 100 bird watchers Coimbatore will take part in this event. The participants will form teams of four members with an experienced bird watcher as the team leader.  Registration of teams is started in SACON and last date is 15^th February 2015. A briefing session on the rules and the plan of Bird race is planned along with the meeting of Sálim Ali Naturalist Forum at 9.30 am on 15^th February . Just sending application does not guarantee the participation in the programme. Details of all the teams and their routes, detailed rules of the race will be available in the Nature Education Website of SACON (www.saconeducation.org) 16^th February onwards. On 22^nd, the race will start at 6.00 am, later on the day there will be a get together for an interactive experience sharing session at 7.00 p.m.in Coimbatore.

 

With warm regards

Dr.P.Pramod

Sr.Scientist & Coordinator, Coimbatore Bird Race.

 

NOTE: TO DOWNLOAD BIRD RACE 2015 REGISTRATION FORM, CLICK HERE

TO DOWNLOAD BIRD RACE 2015 DATA SHEET, CLICK HERE

 

For further details, visit http://www.saconeducation.org/index.php/bird-race

 

 

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Coimbatore Bird Race – 15th December 2013

HSBC and Yuhina Eco-Media, Mumbai, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History and Salim Ali Naturalist Forum (SANF) are organizing the 3rd edition of Bird Race!

The following are the important note to the birders, and the participating team list for the Coimbatore Bird Race- 15th December 2013.

Note:

• The race should start at 6.00 amcan go up to 5.00 p.m. All teams have to submit the filled data sheet to the jury committee by 5.30 p.m.at Hotel City tower.
• There will be a get together, meeting followed by dinner in the Hotel (7.00- 8.30 pm)
• Participants of the Bird race and special invitees are only allowed to participate in the get together
• All members of one team should go together. Splitting of team is not allowed.

Happy Birding !

 

Bird Race 2013 – Participating Team list

TEAM 1

Team Name: Kingfisher

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	S.Jayachandran	9443050401	wildjai31@gmail.com
Birdie1	N. Arun Shankar	9842176730	arunawareodc@gmail.com
Birdie2	K.Mohan Raj	9363147760	justmacmohan@gmail.com
Birdie3	M. Rameshwaran	9159406285	hoopoebulbul@gmail.com

 

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th:

Mulli, Pillur, Athikkadavu, Nellithurai, Kallar, Sirumugai, Siddankuttai, Coimbatore wetlands.

Mode of transport: Car

 

TEAM 2:

Team Name:  Peafowl

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	Siddhartha balakrishnan	8883563999	Rocky_siddhartha@yahoo.co.in
Birdie1	Abisheik A	9500869137	Abisheik.rockz@gmail.com
Birdie2	Vetri K	8148970467	vetrivictorious@gmail.com
Birdie3	Pradeep kumar	9003220990	vbkumar1995@gmail.com

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th:

From Rs puram at 6:00AM. Places of birding (i) Krishnampathi lake (ii) Botanical garden (iii) Ukkadam lake (iv) Perur Lake. Lunch and rest after that birding will continue at Sulur Lake and Kanampalayam Lake

Mode of Travel:  Bike

 

TEAM 3

Team Name: Sea Gull

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	LAKSHMI NARAYANAN	9843081966	Lakshminarayanan16@gmail.com
Birdie1	Dr. RAVINDRANATH&Mrs . Nagalakshmi	9487490661	ravirishi@gmail.com
Birdie2	Mr.GOWTHAM KC	9626618528	greencartons@gmail.com
Birdie3	Dhanuparan& mohan	8344140833

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th:  —

Mode of Travel: SUV / jeep

 

TEAM 4:

Team Name:  CROW

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	Ajaikumar Ramamoorthy	822 000 0096	ajai@tpcc.co.in
Birdie1	Harish Venkatraman	784 555 5184	harish@tpcc.co.in
Birdie2	Babu Subramaniam	979 190 1921	babu@tpcc.co.in
Birdie3	Madhusudhanan	989 474 9920	madhu@tpcc.co.in

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th:

Marudhamalai, Ponnuthu, Anuvavi, NBNP, Sholayur, Mulli, Selvapuram, Vedapatti, Perur, Kovai Pudur, Kuniyamuthur, Singanallur, Pallapalayam, Kannampalayam, Sulur, Kulathur

Mode of Travel: Car

 

TEAM 5

Team name –

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	M.VIJAYARAJ	98947 14646	mvijaya_raj@yahoo.co.in
Birdie1	Mr. Sathish	9442341404
Birdie2	Mr.Sathya Narayana
Birdie3	Mr.Deiva Prakash

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th :

Marudhamalai  FootHills, Semmedu (Alandurai), Sundakkamuthur, Vedapatti, Muthannankulam, Ukkadam.

Mode of Travel :   By Car

 

TEAM 6:

Team Name:  Golden Plover

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	M.Gaythri Devi	9942310000	gaythridevi@yahoo.co.in
Birdie1	Mansur Ahamed	9976767676	manuahamed@gmail.com
Birdie2	Gokul Ram	9600992200
Birdie3	Abisek Ahamed.M.G	9578112345

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th : Walayar to Chinniyampalayam

Mode of Travel : Car

 

TEAM 7:

Team Name:  Flamingos

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	A.M.Kannan	9976914000	amkannan@rocketmail.com
Birdie1	Renuka	9842201456
Birdie2	Devi
Birdie3	Sanjay

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15^th : —

Mode of Travel : Car

 

TEAM 8

Team Name: Lesser Pied Kingfisher

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	Umesh Marudhachalam	9042891702	umesh_marudhu@yahoo.com
Birdie 1	Sai Nehali.U	8754306236	sai361181@gmail.com
Birdie 2	Vandhana Rajashree	9865899046	vandhanarajshree627@gmail.com
Birdie 3	Ramanathan.L	7418808853	mechanicalbullz@gmail.com

 

 

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15th :

-Ukkadam Bigtank,Valankulam(6 A.M),-Vellingiri Foothills(Reserve Forest Area & Noyyal River Bank)08.30 A.M to 11.59 A.M,-Vellalore Waste Dump Yard ‘ (01.15 P.M to 04.00 P.M),-Coimbatore City-Gandipuram(04.45 P.M)

Mode of Travel : Govt. Bus.

 

TEAM 9:

Team Name: Kingfisher

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	Pavendhan A	9952200334	pave67820@yahoo.co.in
Birdie1	Soundarrajan	9994712299	soundar16@ymail.com
Birdie2	Mohan Prasath	9894644541	grdmohan@gmail.com
Birdie3	Rajinikanth	9865288908	rajinikanth@rsmautokast.com

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15th :–

Mode of Transport – Car

 

TEAM 10:

Team Name : Kestrel

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	Harishvara Venkat	9843213551	alpinuswild@gmail.com
Birdie1	Mitra Vinothini	770802154	m.vindi@gmail.com
Birdie2	Gitika Parthiban	7200810188	gitikaparthiban@gmail.com
Birdie3	Varshini Choudhry	9943682774	varshini_birds@yahoo.co.in

Route and locations planned to visit for bird watching on 15th:

Mettupalayam, Karamadai, Kannampalayam, Sulur.

Mode of Travel: Car.

 

TEAM 11:

Team Name:  Shaheen

	Name	Mobile Number	E-Mail
Captain	G. Parameswaran	8220871624	shivanparam@gmail.com
Birdie1	Mrs. Parvathi Ravikumar
Birdie2	Mr. Saravanan Natrayan
Birdie3	Mrs. Sarayu Ramakrishnan

Route plan for bird watching on 15th:

-Sholayoor area with stops near the forest check post and surrounding areas {6 AM – 8:30 AM}, Sholayoor – Anaikatti Road {8:30 AM – 9 AM}, Anaikatti – Thadagam Road {9 AM – 9:30 AM},  SACON – Moongilpallam area {till 10:30 AM},  Ponnoothu /Chinnathadagam valley area {11 AM – 12 Noon}, Ukkadam – Periakulam {1 PM – 1:45 PM}, Perur – Sundakamuthur Lake {2 PM – 2:45 PM}, Vedapatti – Narsampathi Lakes {3 PM – 3:45 PM},  Dhaliyur – Lakshminagar areas {till 4:15 PM}, Krishnampathy/Selvampathy/Kumarasamy Lakes {4:30 PM to 5 PM}.

Happy Birding !

 

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Dr. P.Pramod                                                                          4^th December 2013

Sr. Scientist (Nature Education)

 

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Third Coimbatore Bird Race on 15^th  December 2013

 

With the support of HSBC and Yuhina Eco-Media, Mumbai, Sàlim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History and Sàlim Ali Naturalist Forum (SANF) is organizing the third edition of Bird Race in Coimbatore on 15 December 2013. The Bird Race is a dawn-to-dusk event where a large gathering of experienced and budding birdwatchers spend an entire day spotting and identifying birds in an effort to record as many species of birds as possible.

 

It is my pleasure to invite all our bird watcher friends of Coimbatore to take part in this event. Those who are interested to take part in the Bird Race may have to form a team with an experienced bird watcher as the team leader. Maximum number of members permitted in a team is four. Please register your team on or before 9th December 2013. Registration forms (refer Note below) should be filled in advance and submitted to the coordinator on or before 9^th December. There will be a briefing session at ExNora International, 2/166, Kalidas Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore 641009 (Opp to ICICI Bank) at 5.00 p.m on 13^th December 2013 . Preferably the leader or atleast one member of each team has to attend the briefing session. Just sending application does not guarantee the participation in the programme. Details of all the teams and their routes, detailed rules of the race will be available in the Nature Education Website of SACON (www.saconeducation.org) 13th December onwards for every body’s knowledge. On 15^th, the race should start at 6.00 am, later on the day there will be a get together for an interactive experience sharing session at 7.00 p.m, followed by dinner in Hotel City Tower, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore.

 

Please note the following:

• The race should start at 6.00 am can go up to 5.00 p.m. All teams have to submit the filled data sheet to the jury committee by 5.30 p.m. at Hotel City tower.
• There will be a get together, meeting followed by dinner in the Hotel (7.00- 8.30 pm).
• Participants of the Bird race and special invitees are only allowed to participate in the get together.
•    The application without the valid email ID and cell phone number will not be considered.
• Confirmation of the participation along with the data formats will be given on 13^th in the briefing session.
• The locations which are not mentioned in the application form will not be considered.
• All members of one team should go together. Splitting of team is not allowed.

P.S. Mail correspondence can be done to sanc.sacon@gmail.com

 

With warm regards,

 

Dr. P.Pramod (Co-ordinator-Coimbatore Bird Race),

Senior.Scientist,
Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History,
Anaikatty.P.O.
Coimbatore.
India 641108.
Phone 91 422 2203115, 9443167773.

 

Note: To download Bird Race 2013 registration form, click here

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Archive News!

Along with HSBC and Yuhina Eco-Media, Mumbai, SACON is organizing a Bird Race in Coimbatore on 15th December 2013. The India Bird Race is a dawn-to-dusk event where teams of experienced and budding birdwatchers will spend an entire day spotting and identifying birds in an effort to record as many species of birds as possible.

 

100 Bird enthusiasts from Coimbatore will take part in this event. There will be 20 teams participating in the event. All the media such as local and national news papers, radio will carry the spirit of the event actively. Radio city FM will conduct live phone in programmes with the bird watchers in the field

 

Later, on the day there will be a get together of the participants for the experience sharing in the Hotel City Tower, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore.