We did it!

Well, mostly you all did it!

I am beyond pleased with how our City Nature Challenge turned out. Pending any uploads still being processed, here are our stats:

6,620 observations
1,374 species
253 observers

That is simply amazing for our first attempt at this. You all have contributed so much valuable information to the iNaturalist database, and for that you all deserve to be commended. There are two people, however, who deserve a little extra commendation. @ltomko and @anna120 blew the rest of us away. With 1,362 and 1,224 observations, respectively, we would not have been close to our final numbers without them! Amazing work, and thank you from the bottom of my heart.

But wait, there's more!

Now that the observation period has closed, it's time for us all to put on our identification hats. One of the things that the organizers look at is the percentage of observations that end up at Research Grade, which is the highest level of verification available on iNaturalist. To do that we are all going to have to go back through the submissions and help verify the ones we can. We have until May 5th to get as close to 100% Research Grade as we can. Right now we are at 44.64% Research Grade, so I think we've got a shot a getting all of them done.

Here is a helpful guide on iNaturalist identification etiquette: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identification-etiquette-on-inaturalist-wiki/1503

Cheers, and happy IDing! If you see any particularly cool observations or rare species, please tag me (@trav_kurtz) in a comment so that I can try and get those observations noticed by the event organizers.

Publicado el abril 30, 2024 09:32 TARDE por trav_kurtz