What a great CNC! Always so impressed with how our community shows up for the City Nature Challenge: with events, helping to get the word out, getting outside and documenting our local biodiversity, helping with identifications, traveling to those harder-to-reach spots to find unique species, looking for blank spots on the map to go make last-minute observations – no matter if you made 1 observation or 100 observations (or 767 observations – looking at you, @gyrrlfalcon), 1 identification or 100 identifications (or 2,232 – OMG @catchang!), your support and enthusiasm for the CNC is so appreciated. And out of 445 cities, we had the 3rd highest number of observers (and in the top 10 for both observations and species).

Since not every city uses iNaturalist for the CNC, we wanted to make sure to share the full collective results with all of you (visit the umbrella project journal to see the global infographic):
Total # of observations: 1,694,877
Total # of observers: 67,220
Total # of species documented: 50,176+, including more than 2,244 rare/endangered/threatened species
Most observed species: Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Number of participating countries: 47
Number of participating cities: 445

Here in the Bay Area, our final results were:
Total # of observations: 31,227
Total # of observers: 2085
Total # of species documented: 3008
Most observed species: Ithuriel's Spear (Triteleia laxa) (is this the first year it hasn't been California Poppy?!)

Over the 7 years we've participated in the City Nature Challenge, a total of 9,536 people have made 214,516 observations of 6,030 species, and 4,802 people have helped to add identifications to those observations! [:mind blown emoji:]

Here's a little infographic highlighting our results this year and some fun finds from throughout the Bay Area:

Thanks everyone! Mark your calendars for next year: April 28 - May 1!

Posted on May 10, 2022 01:04 AM by kestrel