Events for the 2018 City Nature Challenge
Join in an event being held by our partner organizations all around the Bay in support of the City Nature Challenge! Meet other people interested in documenting local nature, learn more about the iNaturalist platform, and help the San Francisco Bay Area win the City Nature Challenge! Click each event to find out more.
Friday, April 27th:
Briones Regional Park Bioblitz & Moth Lighting, Contra Costa County
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Bioblitz, Sonoma County
Skyline Ridge Open Space Bird & Nature Walk, Los Altos, San Mateo County
Noe Valley Bioblitz, San Francisco
Saturday, April 28th:
San Bruno Mountain Bioblitz, San Mateo County
Palo Alto Baylands Mini Bioblitz, Santa Clara County
Lake Merritt Bioblitz, Oakland, Alameda County
Sunol Regional Wilderness Bioblitz (& free lunch!), Alameda County
Mount Diablo Mitchell Canyon Hike, Contra Costa County
Trione-Annadel State Park Bioblitz, Sonoma County
Ring Mountain Bioblitz, Tiburon, Marin County
Lake Lagunitas Bioblitz & Guided Excursions, Marin County
Tamarancho Mountain Bike Bioblitz, Marin County
China Camp Mountain Bike Bioblitz, Marin County
Presidio Bioblitz, San Francisco
Lands End Bioblitz, San Francisco
Bernal Hill Bioblitz, San Francisco
Sunday, April 29th:
Coyote Meadows Bioblitz, San Jose, Santa Clara County
Palo Alto Foothills Park Mini Bioblitz, Santa Clara County
Skegg's Mountain Bike Bioblitz, San Mateo County
Pacifica Mountain Bike Bioblitz, San Mateo County
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There are still a few spaces left for the Nicasio Ridge (National Park Service) Bioblitz, Marin County, on Friday, April 27th, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Expertise in any part of the animal kingdom would be especially valuable to round out our team. If interested, email me at michael_chasse@nps.gov or contact me through my iNaturalist handle: @mrchasse
Is there a list of places people are committed to checking out vs. a list of events? Like there's an event at Mitchel Canyon at Mt. Diablo but no event for the Diablo summit, so is anyone planning to go up there?
Also, as a reminder to anyone who might stumble upon this, we missed out on some low hanging fruit last year, including:
Gray Hairstreak
Gulf Fritillar
Horned Lark
Lazuli Bunting
Western Tanager
Black-bellied Plover
Tons of odes
If you want to add your name to a place on this list or a new place that you're planning on going to during the City Nature Challenge, here's the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xpobP_m0WRGazkovOQjNE6acrX4aoWoHGL_capTewj4/edit?usp=sharing
Also, if you want to come to the ID party at the Academy the evening of Tuesday, May 1, add your name here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S6mhKDKG7Dgvtp-UVRaY7v2nz_qbybXwgMF2lvm5vG4/edit?usp=sharing
@kestrel - is the ID party at the Academy open to everyone?
@bluevalhalla We can't accommodate a huge group, but we'd welcome our local iNat members, especially those with some expertise to help with IDs! :) For those adding their names to the ID party list, I'll send out an email with more details on Monday!
@kueda To avoid missing your "low-hanging fruit" we need a way to narrow the list of species seen to get a list of ALL odes or ALL castilleja seen to date--or search the list for a specific species. We can do this for 2016 or 2017 but I cannot figure out how to do it for 2018.
Is this doable?
@nancyasquith You can use the "compare" tool - this link compares all the odes seen in the SF Bay Area in April & May vs. the ones that have been seen so far for the City Nature Challenge: SF Bay Area Odes Apr & May vs. CNC 2018.
You can compare other taxa by changing the taxon id in the two strings. I'll post a list of others in the SF Bay Area CNC projects's journal.
TERRIFIC! Thanks very much, Kestrel. Your tool works beautifully, and I was able to convert it for lepidoptera and owls by changing the taxon ID in both lines to 47157 and 19350 respectively. (I first tried changing it in the top line only, which, of course, does not work.)
To get the taxon #, folks, you do a search then look at the URL, e.g., leps' URL is https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47157-Lepidoptera and that's where I got the 47157.
[Perhaps we need to tell other cities about the tool to be fair. ]
All the other City Nature Challenge organizers know about the compare tool - I showed them how to use it and let them know to share it with their participants if they'd like! :)
How does one join this project on Inaturalist or get invited to join?
@hailkeepur You don't have to join it, jut upload any observations made in the SF Bay Area Apr 27-30 and they'll automatically become part of the project!
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