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March 30, 2023

Taxonomy Nerds Rejoice!

Want to see a taxonomically ordered list of all the organisms for a project? This fun little search string from the iNaturalist forum (and from bouteloua via dianastuder) gives you an ordered list of all the organisms in a particular project (in this case, for my yard):

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/taxa?projects=my-kentucky-yard

This makes it easier to spot particularly diverse groups. For example, I know I have a good array of woodpeckers (4 species in family Picidae), but not knowing the bird families well, I was a bit surprised to realize they were rivaled by 4 species of orioles & blackbirds (family Icteridae) and 4 species of finches (family Fringillidae) and outnumbered by sparrows & co. (family Passerellidae, 5 species). However, 9 species of orbweavers (family Araneidae) mean the spiders have even higher family diversity, and don't get me started on the butterflies...

Posted on March 30, 2023 03:09 AM by m_whitson m_whitson | 2 comments | Leave a comment

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