The stability and resilience of ecosystems is contributed to by pollinators enhancing plant reproduction, promoting genetic diversity, and supporting ecosystem functions - the functions occur in ways such as nutrient cycling, soil formation, and carbon sequestration. Healthy populations of pollinators indicate healthy ecosystems that provide adequate resources, suitable habitat, and a balanced ecosystem. Conserving pollinator species and their habitats enhances ecosystem resilience to cl...

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There is an ongoing mega-invasion at Runge! In the month of May, on any given day, hundreds of school children may descend upon the nature center. Each night, thousands of migrating birds may land looking for refuge. And, as you read this, millions of periodical cicadas are beginning to emerge on the nature center grounds.

Brood XIX (The Great Southern Brood) is well on its way, with individuals beginning to emerge. Soon, up to 1,000,000 cicadas may cover every acre of forest in...

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Hello everyone who participated in Monterey Bay's CNC last year in 2023!

I'm reaching out just to let you know that this year's project just finalized and the results were awesome! I wanted to thank you all from last year who made this year a success. If you'd like to read more about how this year went, I just finished a giant journal post about it!

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🥳🥳The 2024 City Nature Challenge global totals have arrived!🥳🥳

Hello there, Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties! After months of organizers' meetings, exploratory field trips, countless emails, and frantically trying to remember how to use HTML markup so this update looks fancy, CNC 2024 is finally done! Globally, more than 83,000 people across 690 cities in 51 countries on all 7 continents documented more than 2.4 million wildlife observations for ...

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Martes 7 de mayo 2024
Se crea este foro para conocer la amplia diversidad que se encuentra en Ciudad Universitaria, con el fin de promover la educación ambiental.

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🌱🌳🐜🐞🦋🐢🦎🍄🐦🔍

The 2024 EcoBlitz Binghamton University iNaturalist Umbrella Project final results:
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Number of Observations: 1,281
Number of Species: 411
Number of Observers: 93
Most observed species: eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus)

And now for the prizes!
Most observations: @zprete has 201 observations
Honorable mention for most observations:

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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 Obs...

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This project is just getting going. Please add any observations you or others have of insects on hilltops and invite anyone who might want to contribute. The goal is to expand our knowledge of the insects that hilltop and which hills they love. My inspiration for this project comes from seeing hordes of ladybugs looking very out of place on a glaciated peak in the North Cascades in 2011. Since then I've been seeing lots of fun flies and butterflies atop peaks in the Rockies.

For ...

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Encore une fois, un énorme merci à tout le monde d'avoir participé au DNU cette année. Ce fut un succès époustouflant! Nos résultats pour la grande région de Montréal sont impressionnants. Wow!

Nous avons été classé
-- 1er pour le nombre de participants au Canada (881), et 21e sur 695 villes au monde;

-- 2e pour les observations au Canada (14 046), juste 20 observations derrière la grande région de Vancouver (14 066); et 41e sur 695 villes au monde.

Ensem...

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Dear ARMN Observations members, earlier today I briefly tweaked the project to only cover April 26-29 for long enough so I could gather some City Nature Challenge 2024 statistics. I then reset the project to cover "All Dates" as was the case before. In other words, nothing is changed! However, you may receive an email from iNaturalist alerting you that there was a change. They err on the side of caution because some project changes could affect a member's observation privacy settings. Th...

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We delayed Observation Accuracy Experiment v0.4 a week to not distract from City Nature Challenge 2024. We're asking contacted validators to assess the sample by May 13.

We made 4 changes to this experiment from v0.3:

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Ďakujeme vám, že ste sa zapojili do tohtoročnej City Nature Challenge. K termínu vyhodnotenia výsledkov CNC 2024 sme v Bratislave zaznamenali 1 390 pozorovaní, priemerne 20 pozorovaní na jedného účastníka. Bolo identifikovaných 504 druhov, vrátane viacerých vzácnych druhov a troch inváznych druhov.

Celosvetovo účastníci štvordňovej výzvy zaznamenali rekordných viac ako 2,4 milióna pozorovaní. Spoločným úsilím bolo zdokumentovaných viac ako 65 682 rôznych druhov, vrátane 3 940 vz...

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This past year I have studied foraging culture in Iceland. Part of this research was asking people who had traveled to Iceland what they had seen. Thank you to everyone on this app who helped me with this project!

Here is the linked article:
https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/scholars/42/

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Hey all!

So, DFW once again did a GREAT job on the City Nature Challenge!!!

Some more details will be coming out soonish, but in the meantime, here's a great infograph on the global City Nature Challenge:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-north-and-south-america/journal/94033-cnc-2024-r...

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It has been a great experience to be a part of the first ever participation of York in the City Nature Challenge 2024 competing against 691 cities worldwide to make biodiversity observations! A huge thank you to everyone for your observations over the course of the four days of the inaugural York City Nature Challenge! This event could not have happened without everyone contributing in so many different ways from making observations to putting on events. The final results for the competi...

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In 2023 we saw up to eight(?) quite young E. cibarius all adorably hanging out on a boulder. As of 2024, they are gone from there, but new sightings suggest the possibility that one or more of them continues to inhabit the jetty! Please contribute more sightings, thoughts and info.

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Hello iNatters, Entomophiles & Garry Oak ecosystems-Kwetlal food system afficionados,

Friends of Uplands Park is happy to host another insect bioblitz at Uplands Park & Cattle Point. The Garry oak meadows are in their wildflower glory, beaconing all the pollinators and other insect visitors. And if that weren't enough of a reason - it is also World Migratory Bird Day with this year's theme being "Protect Insects, Protect Birds":

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While existing iNat search tools can show all the kingies in Washington, this project has nevertheless been created to feature observations, community, discussion about the crowning crab species of the region!

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Hello Everyone, and Congratulations on a successful City Nature Challenge!

We collectively surpassed our 2023 goals for another record year. This includes 10,069 observations (2023: 9,436) of 2,117 species (2023: 1,901).

Our top iNaturalist users for the project are as follows:

Most Observations or species:
1) @ladyjanaye with 782 observations
2)

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La période de téléversement des observations du Défi Nature Urbaine s'est officiellement terminée, et les résultats ont été compilés:

Nous avons terminé cette année avec 431 observations, 208 espèces observées et 58 observateurs. C'est plus de 100 observations de plus que l'année précédente!

Nous souhaitons remercier les collaborateurs qui ont organisé des activités dans le cadre du défi cette année :

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Olá amig@s do PEFI!

Não podemos deixar de registrar a observação de número 12 mil aqui do Projeto! Com a contribuição de tod@s foi registrado em menos de um mês, mais de mil observações de espécies de animais que vivem aqui na UC, isso é algo incrível e mostra o potencial e quanta riquezas "chamam" o PEFI de lar.

A observação 12 mil foi feita no dia 28 de abril pelo

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Hi Team,

The Peninsula BioBlitz 2024 has been a huge success thanks to all your participation!

We reached 1,416 observations this year! Almost half again as many as last year 😊 And this year we found 316 species!!! That is a big jump up from last year’s 254. Huge thanks to the 194 participants (observers and identifiers) that made this possible!

Here is how our BioBlitz contributed to the global City Nature Challenge:
City Observations Species People

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First, thank you all so much for participating this year! We had great weather and it was a lot of fun to see things as they were coming in.

We had 10 observers out this year
(@bmcnaught, @cathybru, @collhag,

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Exciting news - for participating in the Bioblitz by making at least one observation during the Bioblitz, you'll be entered into a raffle to have the chance to one 1 of 3, $25 Uptown Waterloo gift cards!

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today went to muthla region to check migration of birds, was rather dull apart from sighting a cuckoo and booted eagle .

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Today morning traveled to explore and do birding in lesser nuwaiseeb area of Kuwait , good number of migrant birds observed apart from local resident birds.

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What a great first 24 hours of our BioBlitz! All guided hikes the rest of the week are still open for registration.

A reminder that the person who makes the most observations by the end of the BioBlitz will get a $250 Uptown Waterloo gift card, the person who makes the second most observations will get a $100 Uptown Waterloo gift card, and the person who makes the third most observations will get a $50 gift card.

Happy BioBlitzing!

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Monday, May 6th, 2024
9:09 am
Raining. I've been thinking a lot about balance. I wonder if everything the Earth does is to keep things in balance, even extreme weather. I also wonder if that balance changes over time. Or is there a balance at all? Is the climate just going haywire until it settles again?
Where I live we have ponderosa pines just about everywhere. They have been struggling with drought for years now. How much rain would it take to bring things into balance? ...

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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park BioBlitz this year! 2024 was the year of the new observer, with 15 of our 19 City Nature Challenge (CNC) participants posting observations in the Park for the very first time. Welcome to all! We hope you’ll join us again!

Together, these 19 observers (8 completely new to iNat) contributed to our results:
• 171 observations made
• 107 species observed
• 15 species added to the park list (thi...

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BREAKING NEWS : Final Results CNC

The San Antonio Metro Area emerges victorious in TEXAS !

But wait, there’s more...we’ve clinched the top spot in the entire USA (out of 139 USA cities)! And that’s not all—we’ve secured an impressive #3 ranking on the Global stage!

Our hearts overflow with gratitude for your tireless efforts on behalf of nature and our cherished Texas communities. With a staggering 64,731 observations, your dedication, participation in walks, and generou...

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