It has begun!
The 2018 City Nature Challenge is well underway and San Diego's iNaturalist users are doing an amazing job!
Thank you all for your great observations, IDs, and all around wonderful work!
I wanted to let you all know, iNaturalist has made some changes to how BioBlitz style projects work -- the City Nature Challenge is one such project.
These changes are just taking place this morning.
Users can no longer “join” these projects.
Since these projects automatically aggregate any observations made in a given area, over a set timeframe, they decided to remove the “join” option.
This also means the project will no longer show-up in people's “project” list.
Never fear, all observations made in San Diego County, during the project timeframe will still automatically be added to our totals.
City Nature Challenge Project timeframe: Friday, April 27 12am – Monday, April 30 11:59pm
Observations time-stamped within this date range can be added after the fact.
We have until Friday, May 4 at 12am PST to identify species for them to count towards San Diego’s total.
Happy observing,
Lauren
Comments
Thanks Lauren. The "no join" thing is understandable, but iNat should also allow the option to add it to their project lists, in my opinion. Now one has to bookmark the page if one wants to check back often, and it fragments where you can view the projects the observer was a part of. @kueda @loarie
Yes, agreed Jay. It also makes some things funky on the back end for us when it comes to protect species.
I will definitely share this feedback with iNat, so please add anything else that comes up for you.
Best,
Lauren
Cross-referencing iNat with April eBird data, the following avian species still need to be observed. Some of these are a stretch, but some are known to still be in San Diego:
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Swan Goose (Domestic type)
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant
Cackling Goose
Mute Swan
Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)
Mandarin Duck
Northern Shoveler
Eurasian Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Pink-footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Black Storm-Petrel
Brown Booby
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Ridgway's Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Avocet
Black Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover
Long-billed Curlew
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Red Knot
Surfbird
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Scripps's Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Mew Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Common Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Barn Owl
Western Screech-Owl
Burrowing Owl
Spotted Owl
Long-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Vaux's Swift
Rufous Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Yellow-headed Parrot
Blue-crowned Parakeet
Red-masked Parakeet
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Plumbeous Vireo
Black-throated Magpie-Jay
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Bank Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Canyon Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Japanese White-eye
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Varied Thrush
Sage Thrasher
American Pipit
Black-and-white Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Painted Redstart
White-collared Seedeater
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Bell's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Tricolored Blackbird
Purple Finch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Northern Red Bishop
Pin-tailed Whydah
Justyn
Sora can usually be found at Lake Cuyamaca.
Why are there only birds on this list?
How about listing the reptiles and amphibians that haven't been found?
I’m not an admin or project leader, I’m merely volunteering to coordinate birds. I know nothing of other taxa.
Thanks Justyn, this is a great list to work from.
Your efforts are much appreciated!
I figure the birds will be gotten with all the birders out there. As far as the "challenge" goes (maximizing species count and obs), birds aren't really a big piece of the overall taxa pie and actually sort of take a relatively long time to get media for. The better strategy is to shoot as many plants and arthropods as possible since that is where the major biodiversity is. I don't mind missing 50 species of birds as long as people tackle the 3,000 species of plants found in the county, for example. Today I focused on plants and got a bunch of birds, bugs and herps as well, among others.
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