IDENTIFICATION TIME!
Well done everyone.
The situation will certainly change, but at present Cape Town is
- #2 for observations
- #4 for species
#9 for observers
You can keep tabs of the leaderboard here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023
I trust that everyone enjoyed the weekend and the holidays ...
But now it is time for identifications!
But first, please upload any of your outstanding observations. These must be done my 8th May, but if you can do them soonest, then they can be identified, and you will be free to help us with identifications.
please review the Identification Curation tool here: https://vimeo.com/246153496
this two minute tut will save you lots of time!
GENERAL IDENTIFICATIONS:
We need this backlog cleared please.
Basically if you can put this to species, genus or family, then please do so. If not please leave it for those who can - dont make IDs like "Plants" - to be useful it needs to be at family level: so proteas, ericas, grasses, daisies, peas, vygies - at that level. But for animals, these are fine if you dont know the species: birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects, spiders, scorpions, snails, etc. For Fungi, please separate Fungi from Lichens - that is good enough to reach the specialists.
So: please clear these. Everyone can help!! click this link:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any&iconic_taxa=unknown&order_by=random&project_id=city-nature-challenge-southern-africa-2023
SPECIALISTS:
Specialists - Please note that we will be focussing on southern Africa rather than cities. So please help across the board.
Please revisit from time to time as unknowns get sorted. At this stage we are focussing on getting idetifications. Reviews and checking and further instructions will follow later in the week.
Land:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=city-nature-challenge-southern-africa-2023
Please add your taxon (e.g. Birds, Proteas, Scroffs) into the Species box to narrow down to your speciality.
More links will follow later as the ID bins for groups get sorted out.
Current status - for Cape Town:
4,000 observations Casual (10%) [planted or captive]
7,235 observations Research Grade (18%) - we want this at 80% by Saturday.
29,673 observations Need ID (73%) - we are focussing on these.
- of which 14,452 are "Unknown" - please help clear these as top priority
Updates to follow as we reach different milestones.
Comments
Sounds (s Afr): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any%2Cneeds_id&project_id=city-nature-challenge-southern-africa-2023&sounds=true
Looking at la Paz having almost three times the number of observations as we do - I noticed a trend: there was an observation of a hand holding a bat. that same hand holding the same bat at almost (but not quite) the same angle appeared in at least 8 other observations! We would have put all those photos into one observation. So if we were to put each photo in a separate obs then we would also have MANY more obs. One of the obseravtions was https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159208187 by jesusmartinez4. The same observer also had several observations of the same tree!
Careful: we also have a few people doing the same thing. So dont call dark pots when we are in the fire. There are some dark sheep in any flock.
Update: 00:00 Wed 03 May
4,450 observations Casual (10.0%)
9,459 observations Research Grade (21.4%)
30,392 observations Need ID (68.6%) - of which 13,686 are "Unknown" (30.9%)
So we still have more Unknown than RG!
I have a copypasta for those
Duplicate ?
Please combine multiple pictures of the same individual of a species
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-turn-multiple-observations-into-a-single-observation/9838
Life and good as can be.
Update: 18:00 Wed 03 May
4,587 observations Casual (10.0%)
10,111 observations Research Grade (24.1%)
30,186 observations Need ID (65.9%) - of which 11,486 are "Unknown" (25.1%)
So we still have more Unknown than RG!
Update: 11:00 Thur 04 May
4,835 observations Casual (10.2%)
12,061 observations Research Grade (25.5%)
30,352 observations Need ID (64.2%) - of which 10,663 are "Unknown" (22.6%)
Milestone: more RG than Unknown!Next milestones:
• Needs ID 50%
• Unknown 10%
Update: 11:00 Sun 07 May
5,780 observations Casual (11.0%)
17,043 observations Research Grade (33.1%)
28,604 observations Need ID (55.6%) - of which 7,694 are "Unknown" (15.0%)
Next milestones:
• Needs ID 50%
• Unknown 10%
Update for today? Not Thursday, since the numbers have moved.
Back to my 3K Unknowns.
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