TIME FOR THE SPECIALISTS

We are now at the stage were we need specialist input.

We still need the basic input to get the IDs to the specialist level, so please continue with these if you prefer:

• No identifications (12,088 observations unidentified):
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town

• if you prefer garden plants and can help, then here (2,050 unidentified):
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=casual&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town

• Unfortunately the belief that identifying as "plants" helps us, means that we have a lot of "identified unidentified" observations too. These 3,047 observations can be found here:
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town&lrank=superclass
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Please if you have a special group that you know well, please have a look at these now and quickly clear them. If your groups are clear (or you cannot identify the last few), then we really would appreciate help with the basics.

We now have 42,000 observations that need identification or confirmation: these are here
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town

These comprize two batches:

1. Those needing further identification (16,889 observations) - high priority: ***
   https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&place_id=113055&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town&quality_grade=needs_id
   What we really want our specialists and experts to focus on is unusual, rare and unrecorded (in the CNC 2021) species - our aim is to make our target of 5000 species. Please help!! - so just scan down the page and look for gems that need identification. and then skip to the next page. Open any observation you want to identify in a new tab with a mouse-wheel-click to keep this page open.

2. Those with IDs that need confirmation (12,335 observations) - low prority:
   https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any%2Cneeds_id&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town&hrank=species

3. (We will ignore reviewing research grade to check IDs - we dont have time now)

So please if you are a specialist. Please click option 1 and then fill in your taxon in the species box, and you are ready to roll.

If you know of a specialist that has not contributed, then please contact them and provide them with the links.

*** Note this is not using the ID tool. This is grid view. ((If you want to formally review the observations in detail, then please us this link
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2021-city-of-cape-town&lrank=genus&hrank=class))

If you have not used the ID curation tool, please look at this 2min tutorial: https://vimeo.com/246153496

Posted on May 7, 2021 10:44 AM by tonyrebelo