Identification Time!

After a great four days of observing, now it's time to get down into those observations and leave some IDs! Our final data get pulled 9am our time on Monday, May 6 so we have a few more days to get our species numbers up by making identifications. Click on "Observations" and then "Identify" to get to the identification page (or just use this link). If you're new to IDing, you can filter the observations just like you can filter the searches in iNaturalist, so you can find the organisms you know best. For more info about identification, visit this page.

Even if you aren't confident in your iNat identification skills, you can still help! About 10% of our observations are categorized as "Unknown" meaning they don't even have a course ID like "Plants." A lot of iNat IDers like to filter based on what they know best, so some people might be just going through the "Birds" IDs, for example. You can help by adding these course IDs to the Unknown observations, for example monocots/dicots or (even just "plants"), mollusks, insects, birds, etc. To do this, go to the Identify Tool and click the icon for the Unknowns (it looks like a leaf with a dotted line and a question mark) or use this link.

PS - There is still time to upload any remaining observations you have waiting on your phones or cameras! Get them uploaded ASAP so they count for our results!

Posted on May 1, 2019 03:53 PM by klodonnell