We would like to gratefully acknowledge various sources and persons we have consulted with in developing this Portal.
Many people have contributed their expertise, data, time and knowledge during various stage of this portal development. We are indebted to Dr. B. M. Parasharya, Aasheesh Pittie, L. Shyamal, Lavkumar Khachar, Yashodhan Bhatia, S. P. Jani, Sharad Shridhar, R. J. Asari, Mustak Mepani, Axat Vyas, R. Prabhakar, Shashank Dalvi, Sumit Sen, Adesh Shivkar ....
We are also thankful to many wildlife photographers Ramki Shreenivasan, Clement Francis, Mital Patel, Kiran Poonacha, Arpit Deomurari, Shashank Dalvi and Yogendra Shah for granting us use of their excellent photographs for this Portal.
We have studied public, open source, participatory communities like the Wikipedia, various global and regional biodiversity information sites like the GBIF, EOL, ToL, IBP and uBio and drawn guidance from these sites.
We are thankful to many global initiatives in Biodiversity Informatics. Especially, BHL and Internet Archive to provide valuable old literature on Indian Avian Fauna, GBIF to provide Museum Collection Records. We are also thankful to IUCN and Birdlife International for providing various checklists and threat categorization data.
We are also thankful to Xeno-Canto, the community database of shared bird sounds from the whole world. for embedding calls of birds found in India.
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) www.gbif.org
Internet Archive www.archive.org
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) www.iucn.org
Birdlife International www.birdlife.org
Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) www.eol.org
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio) www.ubio.org
Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) www.tolweb.org
India Biodiversity Portal (IBP) www.indiabiodiversity.org
Xeno-canto www.xento-canto.org
We are grateful to Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust, Anand for financial support and encouragement for the AVIS-IBIS Phase I Portal Development.
Lastly, We offer our regards to all of those who supported us in any respect during the completion of the portal.
