It is done! Well Done!! And now the Identifications.

Congratulations. That was fun and exciting.

If you wish to see the world situation, it is https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022

Well done to La Paz and to Cape Town.
And thank you everyone who spent 4 days exploring their cities. I think most southern African cities can congratulate themselves on a job very well done. Hoping that amid the fun, you also had time to explore a few other cities.

Of course, this is not final. Please finish any uploading that you need to catch up on (you have 5 more days) Please regard these as urgent.
And the IDs still need to be done.

Initial Identifications

We have until midnight on 8 May to make identifications.

It makes sense to work in teams and groups, and not just on our own. Except for Cape Town: they will overwhelm us.

Stage 1 is to clear the unidentified observations.

1. Please dont bother to ID something as a Plant - you are just wasting time. If you know the family or genus of the plant, then please make an ID, otherwise just skip it for someone else to ID. Identifying Birds, Mammals, Fungi, Frogs, Fish and Reptiles is great (just not "Plants"). This is Blitz ID time, and with 90,000 Identifications to make, dont spend more than 10 seconds on an observation.
2. Identify as fine as you know. Family, Tribe, Genus, species, subspecies. Just skip what you dont know, above the level of Family in plants.
3. Use the curation tool. It is fast and efficient and supercool. This is how it works: https://vimeo.com/246153496 - this is a 2 minute refresher or tutorial, and worth the time taken to look at it. (note the Fave button).
4. Remember to FAVE any observation that you think should be included in the running for "Observation of the CNC 2022. for your city" Just the best of the best please.

Here goes (numbers at at 10am Tuesday):
Grassveld and Bushveld:
Urgent ID to group (1595 observations):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=126400%2C125535%2C126448%2C125987%2C129335%2C123909%2C116909%2C128974%2C125027%2C122659
ID needed to Research Grade (5949):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=126400%2C125535,126448,125987,129335,123909,116909,128974,125027,122659

KZN:
Urgent ID to group (1980 observations):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2022-ethekwini-municipality
ID needed to Research Grade (6740):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2022-ethekwini-municipality

Cape South Coast:
Urgent ID to group (1495 observations):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=122896%2C125988
ID needed to Research Grade (7504):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=122896,125988

Western Fynbos:
Urgent ID to group (1247 observations):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=24572,126065,125697,123126
ID needed to Research Grade (5074):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=24572%2C126065%2C125697%2C123126

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And dont forget to help Cape Town when you are done. Cape Town has 16,000 observations that critically need an ID: So please when you are done your region, see if you can help Cape Town: Details are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-city-of-cape-town/journal/65296-2022-cnc-done-and-dusted-except-for-the-identifications

Posted on May 3, 2022 08:17 AM by tonyrebelo