50 Hours To Go: We desperately need identifiers!!

We need help with IDs please: our identifications are progressing at a snails pace.

Summaries - just before Midnight on Friday night:

.* Birds - 4,957 observations of 191 species. RG: 4,504 (91%)
.* Herps - 955 observations of 48 species. RG: 870 (91%)
.* Mammals - 744 observations of 49 species. RG: 466 (62%)
.* Fish -391 observations of 67 species. RG: 231 (59%)

.* Molluscs - 1,797 observations of 210 species. RG: 862 (48%)
.* Insects - 3,238 observations of 389 species. RG: 1,057 (33%)
.* Arachnids - 872 observations of 97 species. RG: 260 (30%)

.* Monocots - 5,873 observations of 484 species. RG: 1,010 (39%)
.* Dicots - 24,618 observations of 1,962 species. RG: 7,954 (29%)

.* Fungi - 746 observations of 120 species. RG: 51 (7%)

.* Marine - 5249 observations of 700 species. RG: 2,818 (54%)

Of our 63,210 observations - our observations by rank:
.* 12,980 observations (21%) dont have any Identifications at all
.* 3,238 observations (5%) have an ID above family level
.* 3,038 observations (5%) have an ID at Family or Tribe level
.* 9,269 observations (15%) have an ID at Genus level
.* 34,557 observations (55%) have an ID to species level

These are roughly as by state of identificaiton:
.* 12,980 observations (21%) dont have any Identifications at all
.* 6,791 observations (11%) are casual grade (planted/captive or missing information)
.* 24,308 observations (38%) have an ID but need it refined or confirmed.
.* 19,212 observations (30%) are Research Grade.

So we still have a gargantuan task over the next 50 hours.

Posted on May 7, 2022 12:16 AM by tonyrebelo tonyrebelo

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To put this in perspective. With 34,500 observations identified to species level - this is more observations identified than observed by any, except the top three other, cities.

Posted by tonyrebelo almost 2 years ago

Neck and neck with Hong Kong for second place now. Our ... 42 versus their ... 45! species

Posted by dianastuder almost 2 years ago

Can anyone help with this? I have looked at a few that I def know and selected agree? Not sure how it works
liezelg

Posted by liezelg almost 2 years ago

@liezelg - what do you mean?
Please see here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-city-of-cape-town/journal/65505-please-help-with-identifications
Does this help you? It sounds that you might be most useful for "Second Pass" and "Specialists".

Posted by tonyrebelo almost 2 years ago

25 Hours to go ....

.* Birds - RG: 4,663 out of 5,137 observations (91%)
.* Herps - RG: 929 out of 1,018 observations (91%)
.* Fish - RG: 301 out of 429 observations (70%)
.* Mammals - RG: 490 out of 777 observations (63%)

.* Molluscs - RG: 1,172 out of 1,973 observations (59%)
.* Insects - RG: 1,179 out of 3,515 observations (34%)
.* Arachnids - RG: 282 out of 943 observations (30%)

.* Dicots - RG: 9,312 out of 26,455 observations (35%)
.* Monocots - RG: 1,316 out of 6,245 observations (21%)

.* Fungi - RG: 66 out of 853 observations (8%)

.* Marine - RG: 3,969 out of 5,472 observations (73%)

Of our 64,700 observations - our observations by rank:
.* 10,970 observations (17%) dont have any Identifications at all
.* 3,494 observations (5%) have an ID above family level
.* 3,359 observations (5%) have an ID at Family or Tribe level
.* 10,037 observations (16%) have an ID at Genus level
.* 36,938 observations (57%) have an ID to species level

These are roughly as by state of identificaiton:
.* 10,970 observations (17%) dont have any Identifications at all
.* 7,026 observations (11%) are casual grade (planted/captive or missing information)
.* 24,247 observations (37%) have an ID but need it refined or confirmed.
.* 22,515 observations (35%) are Research Grade.

Posted by tonyrebelo almost 2 years ago

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