Thank you for being part of the City Nature Challenge!
The results were declared based on the numbers at noon on Saturday (Earth Day), and the DC metropolitan area had a respectable 4843 observations, 901 species, and 167 people. You can read more about the results from all of the cities on the overall project.
If you want to see how different states and DC contributed, here are some filtered views of contributions to the project (in order of # of observations and species):
Virginia
DC
Maryland
West Virginia
In terms of participation, @birderkellyk topped the chart with 403 observations! I want to especially thank everyone who submitted over 100 observations during that time—I know that's a significant time commitment on your part! You are especially awesome. @treegrow @judygva @jacobogre @belyykit @peggyo @mdnaturalist @aabugattas @mellis @arbiess @stella20009 @annagypsy @tminatbe @krosenthal @elliotgreiner
Identifications generally get done by a smaller, diligent subset of the community and this was no exception. Thanks to you @tsn and @ruggedbynature who contributed IDs even though they didn't contribute observations (I assume they live out of range!). Many thanks to @mellis @laura_sebastianelli @tminatbe @slider4 who contributed over 100 IDs in addition to observing for the City Nature Challenge!
Thank you also to everyone who helped spread the word and organize in-person events. It was great fun to meet several of you at the two events I attended.
Next year the City Nature Challenge will go international and we'll have big competition from cities in New Zealand and Mexico for sure! What ideas to do you have for next year? How can we fill in those big gaps in our map?
Hope you all keep exploring and sharing what you find on iNaturalist!
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Thank you for the organization and the encouragement, @carrieseltzer! I look forward to next year's blitz!
That reminds me, who wants to organize a gathering in May, June, or July? A few of us organized gatherings in January (inside at my house) and February (in Rock Creek Park). Is there someplace that you think needs for iNaturalist attention? Fort Dupont Park and other parks east of the Anacostia have relatively few observations. But MD and VA are fair game too! Just name a time and place and we'll see who can show up!
@carrieseltzer Really cool to check the observations page-great layout-and informative of species observed. I really like that it includes natives and non-natives indicator! So as far as invasive: Red Deadnettle!!! If I reported it everywhere I saw it it would have been the top observation! Anyway, hope more folks will participate next year!
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