1. The competition starts from 21st March till the end of December 2015. 2. Any recording of bird spotted is acceptable as long as it is wild, free and within the UM campus. 3. Recording can be made either visually or by hearing as long as you identify it correctly. 4. If you spot a bird and cannot identify it, feel free to record as many details as possible and share to UM Big Year Facebook page or email to [email protected]. The details may include voice recording, physical description, size, colour, spotting time and date, place etc. It is highly encouraged that you confirm the species before submitting your record. 5. Domesticated, encaged, or dead bird cannot be included as a record. 6. Subspecies can be counted as more than one bird, e.g. Javan starling and common starling are two species. 7. UM Big Year follows an honour system, i.e. no one will check or validate your record. 8. Please follow birding ethics, i.e. keeping the natural habitat as it was before, no making of false calls and no disturbing of eggs or nest.