Tamil Nadu’s Salem district submitted the largest number of checklists of birds (8,420) among all participating districts to the global Great Backyard Bird Count 2019.
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is an event to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations.
Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on any or all days of 4-day event and report their sightings online at birdcount.org.
It was launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society.
GBBC is the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time
The 22nd annual GBBC was held for four days from February 15 till February 18, 2019.