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HSBC Bangalore BIRDRACE – 11th February 2007

The HSBC Bangalore BirdRace will take place on 11th, the second Sunday of February 2007. All interested birdwatchers and nature lovers are welcome to participate in it. The Bangalore BirdRace has been inspired by the India BirdRaces in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad-Gujarat, with slight modifications, keeping the logistics of travel and other factors into consideration. The Bangalore BirdRace will be a dawn to dusk events where teams of bird-watchers will spend the entire day birding in and within 50Km radius around Bangalore city. The participants will try and record as many species of birds as possible, learn about the finer points of bird-watching from the experts and the experienced, and then later in the evening, all teams will meet at a select venue over dinner and an interactive tête-à-tête.

Puttanahalli Tank

Despite strict rules, there is a fun element to this exercise, which would help stimulate enormous interest in bird-watching as a highly popular hobby. The event would give us a good idea of the nature of this region's birdlife and helps in building up support for environment and nature conservation.

Of course, there is also the team spirit and participation that comes into focus here. To ensure that the results are as infallible and in principle as correct as possible, Bangalore BirdRace will have special adjudicators who analyze the results and announce the winners at the special evening programme before dinner. These adjudicators are highly experienced bird-watchers and much-respected senior naturalists/conservationists. Each Team gets an opportunity to interact with the others and recount their day's experiences and bring in a great end to a day well spent with and for the feather folk, and for nature.

1. Each team will consist of 04 (four) persons (no less, no more, unless specially intimated to us) and each team must include a good birder who is familiar with the site's/region's avifauna.
2. A Bird-Name will be given to each team.
3. You are free to constitute your own team but must ensure at least one of you is a proficient birder, familiar with the region's birdlife, and who can be the team captain.
4. There is no Registration Fee to take part in the Bangalore BirdRace.
5. Each Team will be provided with a Bird Logbook consisting of a checklist of all species of birds recorded within the geographical limits of the Bangalore city, with appropriately marked columns for reporting observations. In case you happen to see any species not on this list, please include the same in the space provided.
6. Each team remains as a single unit for the entire day and till the evening programme.
7. The team may, if it so wishes, employ the services of a driver for their vehicle (if they should choose a site that involves driving). The driver may or may not be a bird-watcher. In fact, depending upon sites chosen, please try & constitute your team in such a manner that at least one of you has ACCESS TO A VEHICLE.
8. The organizers will not provide transportation, incidental expenses, breakfast or Lunch during the Bangalore BirdRace.
9. Although there are PRE-DETERMINED ROUTES and birding spots, a team is free to choose its own route and site (s) for the day.
10. You can Walk, Trek, Dive or Drive or even Fly as much as you may to a site or a cluster of sites.
11. This Bird Race is a FULL DAY EVENT.
12. The Bangalore BirdRace begins at dawn and ends at sun-down. Plan your day in such a manner as to converge at the evening venue not later than 6.30pm for the prize-ceremony and get-together. Please note that the evening's programme (at some of the venues) would get over close to 11.15 pm. Hopefully, you wouldn't mind one groggy get-up on a Monday morning, for the love of the feathered birds.
13. There will be prizes for the team sighting the most number of species during the race; a prize for Bird of the Day
14. Please visit the Bangalore page on www.indiabirdraces.com website for details

1. Every bird-lover is welcome to participate in the Bangalore BirdRace.
2. To participate in the BirdRace you MUST register your name/team with the organizers of Bangalore BirdRace.
3. To register yourself or your team, please send an e-mail to bangalore.birdrace@gmail.com and include your name, address, Telephone number(s), Mobile No., e-mail ID. Also, indicate if you are alone or part of a team. If you are part of a team, please send the details on all the team members, as indicated above. The Bangalore BirdRace team will get back to you.
4. Please indicate if you have a vehicle of your own and if you are using your car, indicate if you are willing to take others on the BirdRace.
5. The registration will begin from January 10th 2007 onwards .
6. Details on the Birdwatching sites in and around, and the venue for the evening function/get-together on February 11, 2007 will be made known to all the registered participants later.
7. Please visit the Bangalore page on www.indiabirdraces.com website for details.