I currently have a large accumulated backlog of notifications to go through. I apologize for any missed pings or PMs; I will work over the next few months to get through all of them individually.

All-around amateur naturalist from Vancouver BC, presently studying Geological Sciences at Queen's University. Primarily interested in disjunct populations, ultramafic flora/serpentine endemics, glacial refugia, and long-term species population trends. I'm always trying to get out into the field as much as possible and learn further how to ID different groups of taxa. Like many others it all started with birding, but (thanks to iNat) have long become a generalist and look to ID anything in nature I don't recognize.

I became a curator to add missing species to iNaturalist taxonomy and fix establishment statuses/common names/etc. - If you see a missing taxon that needs to be added, species to be marked as introduced, common name changed, etc. feel free to PM me instead of waiting weeks for a flag to be addressed. Happy to add any taxon providing it's accepted by the taxonomic authorities that iNat follows and isn't otherwise controversial or already flagged.

Please tag me if you want me to explain or review/retract any ID I've made, as I still make mistakes like everyone else.

iNat tips/tricks:

• iNaturalist Photo Guide - Tips, tricks, and guides to help get your sightings identified (BC Parks iNaturalist Project)
• When uploading any plant parasite (galls, rust fungi, etc.), put the host plant scientific name in the description or use the 'Host Plant ID' observation field as most parasitic insects/mites/fungi only parasitize single plant genera.

iNat Search URL Filter tips/tricks:

• How to use iNaturalist Search URLs Wiki - Immensely useful resource to narrow down your searches. A few shortcuts below:
• &hrank=species&unobserved_by_user_id=yourusername - filter for only species you haven't seen
• &introduced=false&hrank=species - exclude introduced species (only show natives and those not yet marked as introduced or native within a jurisdiction)
• &per_page=200 - on Identify pages, change 30 results per page to 200
• iNat Compare Tool - Use search filters to create different lists and find the differences between them. Extremely wide range of uses from tracking out-of-range observations to finding species only recorded in a place in the current year. Example - species of a few dicot orders that had their first research-grade observation in British Columbia in 2022.

Various Projects and Lists:

British Columbia-specific:

• British Columbia Endemics - tracking observations of BC's 140+ endemic species.
• Extirpated and Historical Species of British Columbia
• Underrepresented Vertebrates of BC - all vertebrates with 5 or less RG observations on iNaturalist from the province.
• Freshwater Fish of British Columbia (list of missing sp.)
• BC Offshore - observations from Canadian Pacific waters that are not included in iNaturalist's British Columbia place polygon, which closely follows the coastline and excludes all pelagic waters.
• Species excluded from the vascular flora of BC
• Missing from BC - Native species of British Columbia with no current Research-Grade iNat records.
• UnlistedBCFlora

Projects:

• ABA Rare Birds (Code 4+) - Non-Passerines
• ABA Rare Birds (Code 4+) - Passerines
• Achlorophyllous Parasitic Plants of the World
• American Amphitropical Disjunct Flora - Plants with a disjunct distribution, being found in both temperate North America and South America but absent from the tropics.
• Aquatic and Semiaquatic Mammals
• Birds with Zero Macaulay Library / eBird Photos [species list] - All extant bird species with zero photographs in the Macaulay Library database.
• Cave and Subterranean Fishes of the World - tracking observations of all troglobitic fish species.
• Hybrids without iNat Taxa - cataloguing observations of hybrid organisms that are not yet in iNaturalist taxonomy.
• Eastern North America Ultramafic Flora
• Estuarine Monkeyflowers
• Extinct in the Wild - all species currently listed as EW by the IUCN and other authorities.
• Freshwater Fish Species of the World [complete]
• Inland Marine Mammals
• Legless Lizards of the World - all lizard species with vestigial or absent limbs.
• Marine Reptiles
• Plant Diseases Umbrella [complete]
• Vagrant Mammals - observations of mammals that have strayed outside their usual range, whether it be a Humpback Whale in downtown Montreal or a Southern Elephant Seal in the swamps of Ecuador.

Lists of endemic taxa from various regions, mostly remote archipelagos where I could find no complete list of endemics online, also serving to check for species missing from iNaturalist taxonomy at the time:

• Trindade Island Endemics
• Île Amsterdam & Île Saint-Paul Island Endemics
• Easter Island Terrestrial Endemics
• Malpelo Island Endemics
• Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago Endemics
• Socotra Archipelago Outer Islands Endemics (Abd al Kuri, Samha, & Darsa)
• Ascension Island Terrestrial Endemics
• Commander Islands Endemics
• Wrangel Island Endemics
• Tres Marías Islands Endemic Vertebrates
• Desventuradas Islands Endemics
• Fernando de Noronha Endemics
• Endemic Vascular Plants of Alaska
• Crimean Peninsula Endemics
• Greenland Endemics
• Ontario Endemics
• Leeward Antilles / ABC Islands Endemics

Other Lists:

• Far North Sand Dune Endemics - endemic taxa of North American Cold Region Dune Fields of Northern Canada/Alaska
• Alaska Rare Plants
• Rare and threatened vascular plants tracked by the Yukon government
• Marine Fishes of Hudson Bay
• Kamchatka Thermophilic Flora
• Caspian & Aral Sea Endemic Ichthyofauna
• Subantarctic Indian Ocean Island Flora

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