Hi all – IMPORTANT INFO from the Personal Bioblitz team!

Tonight at midnight (May 23) is the deadline to upload your observations from this year’s Personal Bioblitz. They need to have been observed between March 1 and May 15 this year. No captive or cultivated organisms allowed (except for humans, we consider them wild wherever they are).

Hint – make sure you not only upload your observations to iNaturalist, but you also have to manually ADD them to our project within iNaturalist. You can easily do batch edits of many observations at once to add to a project within the web version (not in the app). You can use the search function to find particular observations (places, dates, etc.)

1. Go to Edit Observations (top left under your profile icon)
2. Click Batch Edit button
3. Select the observations you want to add in the little checkboxes to the left of each observation in the list
4. Click Add to Project button on top

5. Select project from the drop down list (make sure you are a member of the project, otherwise it will not show up)
   ADD TO PERSONAL BIOBLITZ 2023, not any old bioblitzing projects 😊

6. iNaturalist will tell you if the observation was added. If the observation is in the project already, it will say so, so there is no risk of ‘double-adding’ any observations.

You may of course keep adding identifications for your observations after tonight’s deadline. We plan to download the data and calculate the winners on Saturday morning, May 27. So the more identified species you have before then, the better. 😊

It is also Carl Linnaeus birthday today.

Thanks!
Lena and the other curators from the Personal Bioblitz

Posted on May 23, 2023 01:18 PM by vilseskog