Bangalore BirdRace - 2012
The sixth edition of the Bangalore BirdRace was held in the backdrop of a sighting of the Lesser Florican near Bangalore - a sighting made after exactly 100 years. The sixth edition saw over 200 enthusiastic participants travel in and around Bangalore recording bird species with the winning team spotting more than 150 species of birds on a single day. An event to award the winners and to recognize extra-ordinary efforts made by individuals in the field of conservation held at Hotel Paraag culminated the BirdRace.
Results of the BirdRaceGreen Team winner: Brown Bobby : 105 species Arun C Janet Danny Mathew Sharang S Amit Pandey
1st place: Team Flowerpecker : 155 species Vaibhav Chandu Apoorva Sanjeev
2nd place: Team Black Stork : 153 species Deepa Mohan Saandip Nandagudi Poornima Kannan Kannan A S Yashpal
3rd place: Team Whitethroat : 140 species Jayaram Jahgirdar Vinaya Kumar Thimmappa Vinay Subramanya Balasubramanyam Hemanth Kumar
Bird of the day: Team Whitethroat : Reef Heron Jayaram Jahgirdar Vinaya Kumar Thimmappa Vinay Subramanya Balasubramanyam Hemanth Kumar
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