Founded 1980 · Hyderabad

Spreading the message of bird conservation

Since 1980, the Deccan Birders have documented the birds of the Deccan Plateau through field trips, citizen science, and the monthly PITTA newsletter.

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1980

Founded, as the Birdwatchers Society of Andhra Pradesh

Issues of PITTA published every year

Years of field records and waterfowl counts

Upcoming

Come out with us

Trips run most weekends. Turn up, borrow a pair of binoculars, and put your name on the checklist.

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What we do

An array of activities

Deccan Birders organizes field trips, lectures, film and slide shows, nature camps, treks, waterfowl counts, bird ringing, etc.

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Every monthMonthly Field Trips

Twelve issues a yearPITTA – Monthly Newsletter

Once a yearAnnual Bird Race

Every winterAsian Waterfowl Census

Through the yearWebinars

2–3 times a yearOutstation Nature Camps and Trekking

PITTA · Monthly newsletter

Forty-five years of trip reports, in one archive.

Trip reports by members with great details and pictures
Bird of the month column
Opportunity to print your articles

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Live from eBird

What's being seen right now

Data from eBird

Fetching the latest checklists…

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This week at the hide

4 Oct · changes every Monday

Bird Humour

Why did the birder bring a ladder to the field trip?

To get a better vantage on all the little tweets.

Bird Fact

Indian Peafowl

India's national bird — the male's iridescent train is a set of elongated upper tail coverts, not the bird's true tail feathers.

On this day · 4 October

Data from eBird

From members' cameras

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