City Nature Challenge 2024: Ada County's Journal

Wow! Together we flew past our record of 631 species from last year with a current count of 870 species and 5, 035 individual observations. Truly amazing! The identification period will continue through Sunday, May 5th. Between now and then, photos taken between April 26th and 29th can continue to be uploaded and identifiers will continue to work to move as may observations as possible to research grade. Thanks so much for participating in this event! I hope that you learned something new, and perhaps found a wonderful new location to explore. Stay tuned for the final announcement early next week!
Stay curious!

Thank you for helping make this year's City Nature Challenge the best one yet! Together we logged over 800 species across Ada County! Below are some stats from this year's event.
City Nature Challenge Results 2024 – Ada County
Total Observations: 5173
Total Species: 865
Total Observers: 232
Verifiable Observations: 4777
Verifiable Species: 829
Verifiable Observers: 219
Research Grade Observations: 166
Research Grade Species 153
Research Grade Observers: 391
% Verifiable Observations: 922.34
% Verifiable Species: 95.84
% Research Grade Observations: 24.75
% Research Grade Species 18.46
Average # of Observations Per Observer: 22.30

2024 Northern Rocky Mountain Biodiversity Challenge Results
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/2024-cnc-northern-rocky-mountain-biodiversity-challenge-nrmbc

Ada County ranked in 1st place with 766 species overall. For number of observations and observers, we came in 2nd place with 5, 173 observations and 232 observers. Way to go Ada County!

Here is a link to the global results! This year we logged nearly 2.5 million observations!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-north-and-south-america/journal

I hope that you continue to explore the wild places that make our corner of the world unique and share your discoveries with the world through iNaturalist!