JungleDragon now has 3,000 birds!

Dear friends of nature,


A few days ago, I noticed our total bird counter at 2,988. I teased Thibaud Aronson, an enormous bird contributor on JD, into bringing home the milestone of 3K birds, and he accepted the challenge. Two nights ago I had much fun refreshing the counter in real-time whilst at the same time he was adding new species. I wanted to see this happening live. Moments later he delivered this crown jewel to mark 3K:

With an estimation of 9-10,000 total bird species worldwide, having described 3,000 makes it one of the best documented groups of species on the platform. We've also taken special care in the species tree to have the taxonomy translated into common names:

https://www.jungledragon.com/wildlife/browse/animalia/chordata/aves

Reaching 3,000 bird species is a community milestone achieved by all of us spanning several years. Credit goes to all! However, I do want to shine a special light on Thibaud, named "King of Birds" hereafter. A look at Thibaud's map shows why...

https://www.jungledragon.com/user/2959/wildlifemap

...as does his species counter: over 1,500 photographed, and over a 1,000 introduced to JD, many of which are birds. On behalf of the community, hereby we'd like to give special recognition to Thibaud with a gift that is fitting for our shared love of wildlife: Thibaud hereby is invited to pick a wildlife conservation cause of his choice, bird-related or not. JungleDragon will donate to the cause. The gift of sharing your wildlife observations on this platform is returned to wildlife itself. I cannot think of a more powerful motivator to keep sharing.

Thank you all for achieving this incredible milestone!