Georgia - iNaturalist World Tour
Today, we start our 10th Week on the iNaturalist World Tour. This week, we'll visit Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Nicaragua in the Neotropics, Slovakia and Romania in Eastern Europe, and Bhutan in Asia.
We begin in Georgia where all the top 10 observers have observations clustered around the capital of Tbilisi. Based on their observations, 7 of the top 10 (i.e. @shxuila, @revaz, @eto, @ludomani, @ninikosiashvili, @lasha2310, and @bigfoot89) appear to be resident near Tbilisi. @felix_riegel, @ahospers and @currenfrasch are visitors from elsewhere. @shxuila is the top observer, but like most Georgian top observers doesn't reveal much on their public profile.
Activity spiked up in October of 2018 and again in May of this year. Does anyone know what drove these spikes in activity?
@eto is the top identifier and top plant identifier (in addition to being the third top observer). @borisb leads in insects and @sammyboy2058 leads in birds. Many thanks to all the tip identifiers including @kastani, @marialt, @ludomani, @temotemo and @gvirila
What can we do to improve iNaturalist in Georgia? Please share your thoughts below or on this forum thread
@shxuila @revaz @eto @felix_riegel @ludomani @ninikosiashvili @kastani @marialt @ludomani @temotemo
We’ll be back tomorrow with the Dominican Republic!
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Oh, my sweet sweet Georgia. How I miss you!
Georgia is famous for its Batumi Raport Count in spring and Autumn from Belgium, no idea if it are birders who stay some days longer after their stay in Batumi ? I thought they used www.trektellen.nl for their static counting. https://www.batumiraptorcount.org/bird-monitoring
https://trektellen.nl/count/view/1047/20190826 (Honey Buzzard Number:74004)
17,713 observations in Georgia and 1,690 from @ahospers, almost 10%. Not bad at all.
I am really proud of this result! In 2018 National Botanical Garden of Georgia started competition by using your platform to rise awareness about species diversity in ubran environment of Tbilisi city. Project named "iNaturalist EcoHunter" become very popular for resident of city and we continue this project in 2019. At this time we have more than 200 participant who made about 10k observation and describe 590 plant species from city urban area. I appreciate all of project participant and staff who made good job since 2018. I am grateful to #GIZ for sponsored this project and give a chance to increase the wise on biodiversity!
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