Call for Sensitive Species proposals, July 2021
eBird has mobilized huge amounts of data contributed by birdwatchers and made available for education, research and conservation. Globally, eBird holds over 1 billion observations, and in India that number is over 25 million. Public availability of these data has enabled large strides in understanding the distribution, abundance, seasonality and trends of India’s birds. At the same time, open-access data can be a risk for those birds that are targeted for exploitation—through capture, killing, or significant disturbance.
To minimize these negative effects, eBird data output is restricted in some ways to protect these particular birds (termed sensitive species).
The main sensitive species page contains a full description of species that are marked as ‘sensitive’, as well as the current list of sensitive species in India.
The list of sensitive species for India was last updated in 2018, and eBird-India is now calling for additional proposals, with a deadline of 15 September 2021. Please click below to read a description of the procedure that will be followed, and for a link to the form through which you can propose further species to be marked as sensitive.
Sensitive Species List — A call for proposals