IMPORTANT - as usual, the Personal Bioblitz 2017 ends at midnight at the end of May 15, but we will give you all an extra week (7 days, ending May 22) to upload and ID your photos from the time period March 1-May15. Starting June 1 I and my other curators will check that all observations were within that time frame, and that they are not of cultivated plants and pets (humans are still allowed). Also, if you haven't filled in the Google Doc to sign up for the bioblitz but already have the joined the iNaturalist project, PLEASE do that. We will check that you have joined officially before counting up the totals and winners.

The species and observations are gorgeously rolling in!!! Over 3150 species now... will we break the record?

All the rules and information you need are on the iNaturalist webpage, listed on the right. Keep observing nature!

Remember, tonight at midnight is the deadline for this year's Personal Bioblitz. After that you can't observe anything else to add to this project. You have a couple of more days to add photos and observations and identifications on already uploaded things, see post below (or earlier e-mail).

We have already broken the number of observations record for a personal bioblitz (HURRAY), and we have also broken the number of species reported in the last week. We should be able to get over 3500 species, but then you need report or identify those rare things nobody else has seen yet. And, will we reach 17000 observations? Maybe... lets see.

Congratulations everybody, amazing work.

Lena Struwe

Everybody, please make sure that your observation dates are between March 1 and May 15 2017 and nothing else.

Last date to upload observations to this project was May 22 2017 at midnight. (So no more additions of observations from the bioblitz this year to this project, even if you have things you did see. )
All observations need to be mapped and be ID'd to at least a major group.

I will go through and remove all observations that don't fit these criteria, so that we can get an accurate observation and species number for this year's, and compare it to previous years. Stay tuned for the final numbers and winners.

You have all been fantastic participants this year, what a record you just set!

Lena Struwe