The Results Are In!

UPDATED 5/7/19 4pm

Cape Town, South Africa has won the City Nature Challenge! They had the highest number of observations (53,910) and species (4,587). San Francisco won for most people out observing (1,937). Congratulations!

Of course, NYC is still the greatest city in the world! We did even better than last year! We came in 13th out of the 159 cities participating with the 8th highest observation density! Here are the results highlights for NYC. All data were pulled at 9am May 6.

Observations

• Ranked 13th globally
• Ranked 3rd in our climate classification (Cfa in the Köppen climate classification) behind Dallas and DC
• 25,803 observations total in 2019. This is nearly 4000 more observations than last year. WOW!

Species

• City Nature Challenge observers contributed 146 new (to iNaturalist) species for NYC!
• 1,637 species found in 2019. Three hundred more than last year! This number will likely change the most as more identifiers weigh in on the huge number of observations.

Observers
-FOUR of the Top 15 Observers globally are NYC observers: @nycnatureobserver (#8), @srall (#9), @susanhewitt (#11), and @irag (#14)! GREAT JOB!

Results By Area

• Observation Density ranked 8th globally (but two areas ahead of us do not include full cities)
• 32.7 observations per square km - even better than last year!
• For the 14 cities in our size category, we had the most observations and species! Here are the top 5 in this category:

Stay tuned for another post with more results from our Battle of the Boroughs!

Check out this awesome infographic the global organizers made!

Posted on May 6, 2019 09:34 PM by klodonnell