Our numbers keep climbing!

Hi everyone,

Hope you've had a great City Nature Challenge so far! Although the observation period ended on Monday, many users are still uploading photos and audio captured during the observation period of the CNC. This means our numbers are still going up! We have the potential to pass several cities above us as more identifications and observations are added. If you have expertise identifying organisms in South Florida, whether you specialize in bird ID, botany, fish, or something else, you can help us out by looking through observations and adding identifications.

This is a great video tutorial on how to add identifications:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials#identify

If you feel like you want to give adding an identifications a shot after watching that video, you can use this link to lend a hand:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=true&project_id=167912

Remember, only add identifications if you feel confident about your ID! It's better for us to have higher quality data than many incorrectly identified observations, even if it means we have a lower species count.

Also keep in mind you can filter the results to only include the organisms you are most familiar with. For example, if you are a whiz at dragonfly and damselfly ID, you can type in "Odonata" under search species, and that will filter the results.

Another tip if you don't feel you have much expertise at IDing specific organisms, you can look through observations marked as "unknown" by using the link below. This will give you the opportunity to practice IDing organisms to a not very specific level but think of it as "filing" the observations into the right place for experts to ID them further. In other words, if someone posted a flower and left the observation as unknown, you can add the ID "Plants" and then the iNat community that looks over plant observations will be able to see the observation and narrow down the ID.
Here's the link for helping categorize those "unknown" observations from CNCSOFLO:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=unknown&verifiable=true&project_id=167912

Thanks for all of your contributions so far! One last thing... if you know anyone that snapped some pictures of nature around Miami from Friday to Monday, tell them to post them to iNaturalist! We have until Sunday, May 5th to finalize our results and see how we did in comparison to all the other cities participating around the world.

-Joe MDO & the CNCSOFLO Team

Posted on May 1, 2024 09:43 PM by joemdo