Costa Rica - iNaturalist World Tour
Costa Rica - iNaturalist Tour Mundial
We move across the Atlantic to Costa Rica for the 20th stop on the iNaturalist World Tour. It may be a tiny country, but Costa Rica is a mecca for naturalists from around the world. Many of the top observers are visitors from other countries. Several, like @gernotkunz and @vilseskog, are researchers whose work brings them to the country. Others like @stevendaniel and @ryanandrews are prolific visitors (@ryanandrews appears to be in Costa Rica at the moment and is rapidly climbing the leaderboard as we speak). @alvaroalvaradomontealto is based locally in Limon and @marco464 on the Osa Penninsula. There's an interesting cluster around Monteverde which is a popular destination for visitors and where @richardmonteverdense grew up.
Nos movemos a través del Atlántico hacia Costa Rica para la vigésima parada del iNaturalist Tour Mundial. Es un país pequeño, pero Costa Rica es una meca para los naturalistas de todo el mundo. Muchos de los mejores observadores son visitantes de otros países. Varios, como @gernotkunz y @vilseskog, son investigadores que trabajan en el pais. Otros como @stevendaniel y @ryanandrews son visitantes y observadores prolíficos (@ryanandrews parece estar en Costa Rica en este momento y está subiendo rápidamente en las leaderboards mientras hablamos). @alvaroalvaradomontealto tiene su sede local en Limon y @ marco464 en la península de Osa. Hay un grupo interesante alrededor de Monteverde que es un destino popular para los visitantes y donde creció @richardmonteverdense.
Probably due to the large number of visitors, iNaturalist has had a presence in Costa Rica for a long time. The rate of observations have gradually increased over time. The original motivation for the iNaturalist Network was in response to INBIO forking iNaturalist as Bioexplorador, a Costa Rican version of iNaturalist not connected to the global effort. The site went offline in 2015, but the iNaturalist Network remains as an alternative way to offer regionalized versions of iNaturalist that are still connected to the global community.
Probablemente debido a la gran cantidad de visitantes extanjeros, iNaturalist ha tenido presencia en Costa Rica durante mucho tiempo. La tasa de observaciones ha aumentado gradualmente con el tiempo. La motivación original para la Red iNaturalist fue en respuesta a una copia de iNaturalist, Bioexplorador hecho por INBIO . Este sitio se desconectó en 2015, pero la Red sigue siendo una forma alternativa de ofrecer versiones regionalizadas de iNaturalist que todavía están conectadas a la comunidad global.
@claudioflamigni, @easleybirding, @jasonrgrant, @johngsalamander and @jwidness lead identifications of insects, birds, plants, herps, and mammals respectively. Thanks to the mysterious @gis1 and others for all the identifications.
@claudioflamigni, @easleybirding, @jasonrgrant, @johngsalamander y @jwidness lideran las identificaciones de insectos, aves, plantas, herpes y mamíferos, respectivamente. Gracias a la misteriosa @gis1 y otros por todas las identificaciones.
What can we do to get more Costa Rican's involved in iNaturalist? Please share your thoughts below or on this forum post.
¿Qué podemos hacer para que más costarricenses se involucren en iNaturalist? Por favor, comparte tus pensamientos aqui o en esta publicación del foro.
@vilseskog @stevendaniel @gernotkunz @ryanandrews @alvaroalvaradomontealto @easleybirding @claudioflamigni @gis1 @johngsalamander @jasonrgrant
We’ll be back tomorrow with India!
Volveremos mañana con India!
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I highly, highly recommend Costa Rica for people who are interested in absolutely anything relating to the natural world and want their first taste of the Neotropics. The high endemism and ease of transport/safety make it absolutely perfect. I've been here for three months working on a bird point count project at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, and also started a general moth project simply to see what's here. I also got the chance to travel all over the country and it was spectacular.
Shoutout to @claudioflamigni for all the moth help, it's been SO helpful. Even with all his help, I'm still going to be working on identifying all these moths for months, if not years...
I'm not sure about high endemism but definitely with Panama is a top region for biodiversity per area unit. And that's because it has been the narrowest passage for species moving from South and North America in the present geological era
Took a trip there in 2015 for just a week and even though i didn't know what anything was I saw almost 150 species, nearly all of which were 'life list' firsts for me. Definitely a neat place.
Oh looks like I narrowly missed being here with 311 records. Indeed an amazing place for capturing biodiversity in short time. I had about 140 life list first in short work trip there with only 24 hours total for Biodiversity Observations.
Just came back from the rainforest of North Vietnam and I have been to the rainforest on the Philippines and shortly also Ecuador. What is a clear difference in Costa Rica is the high biodiversity of all kinds of animals. In 2 weeks Costa Rica you can see maybe 100 species of birds without concentrating on them, in Vietnam and Philippines maybe 8-10 species including ducks and chickens, because they are still hunted in this countries by local people. Concerning insects North Vietnam was getting close to Costa Rica but still not the same! The number of undescribed species is high in Costa Rica, but still much higher in the other two countries. Literature on animals available is also incomparable. In Costa Rica there is printed literature for a huge amount of different animal groups but also our app: https://apps.kunzweb.net/acr/ so as the app on birds of Costa Rica: http://birdingfieldguides.com/costarica.html and the digital book Field Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Costa Rica: https://cramphibian.com/2017/11/15/new-digital-book-field-guide-to-the-frogs-and-toads-of-costa-rica/
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