Hi Everyone,

Last year we generated 5,785 iNaturalist records for San Benito County - well over half of all the records in iNaturalist to date (10,138). As of today, those records have been identified down to 1,322 species, which is 63% of all species yet recorded in iNat for San Benito County (2,088 total). But with records review and uploading any outstanding photos you still have on your phone or camera for 2016, those numbers might go up more. I would like to take a look at totals for taxonomic groups, but will wait a couple more weeks for folks to do any more records clean-up you might have pending. So please take a look at your accounts and see if there are records to add or that you can refine further and I will take a look again at the end of January to summarize how we did on dragonflies, fungi, plants, mammals, etc.

And if you can't wait to get out there and gather more into for San Benito, we have launched a Biodiversity Big Year for 2017!

http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-big-year-2017-san-benito-county

This year we would like especially to seek out species that occur in San Benito but have not yet been documented within iNaturalist. In the coming weeks, we will post some lists of target species that are known from museum records or other sources to occur in San Benito but don't have an iNaturalist record yet. This is your chance to be the first!

Cheers,

Daniel