Instructions and welcome!
When? 76 days, 1 March to 15 May 2018, 24/7, anywhere.
How? See, listen, discover, learn, identify, list, upload species. Others will help you identify the species you upload photos of.
Why? Learn more about what lives right around you - birds, plants, microbes, algae, fungi, insects, mollusks, mammals…
Who? Anybody associated with Rutgers University (including friends of Rutgers people), wherever you are in the world.
What? Any wild species anywhere in the world that you personally experience (special rules apply, see website).
In 2017 we saw over 4,900 species together,
in 2017 we reported 20,861 observations,
this year, can we break these impressive records?
There will be help with identification, fun discoveries, and a giant online website of what we discover. Sign up now! You need to BOTH JOIN THE INATURALIST PROJECT AND SIGN UP ON THE LINK BELOW.
In 2017 we saw over 4,900 species together,
in 2017 we reported 20,861 observations,
this year, can we break these impressive records?
There will be help with identification, fun discoveries, and a giant online website of what we discover. Sign up now!
Join the Personal Bioblitz here:
Sign-up here: https://tinyurl.com/PB2018form
More information:
Project Website: http://tinyurl.com/PersonalBioblitz
Mailing list: http://tinyurl.com/RutgersBioblitzMail
iNaturalist: http://tinyurl.com/PersonalBioblitz2018
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/RutgersBioblitzFB
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Hello all bioblitzers –
It is about two weeks left on the personal bioblitz before it ends on May 15. You get until midnight on May 20 to upload and identify your observations from March 1-May 15, and after that we record our totals and our winners.
We are on track on another highly successful year, but we are falling short on beating record from last year right now, however, I do think we might have the most phylogenetically diverse observations - keep them coming! Current status is nearly 12 000 observations (which is a lot!), and over 3000 species (wow!)
Don’t forget to record the most common of them all – the human. And the insects and spiders in your houses and gardens, the weeds, and lichens and spring flowers and common trees. And all the rare things too!
Take some time to help ID observations from others in the bioblitz and the more you ID of your own, the higher your species count will be.
Here is a list of ID resources: http://herbarium.rutgers.edu/IDlinks.html
Species in the lead is a new top-5 this year – the Eastern Gray Squirrel! Mallard is just one step behind… This can all change by May 15, depending on what you upload.
But, Rutgers people and students – all top observers are outside Rutgers this year! 😊 Have you been too busy with classes? I know I have.
Keep the species rolling in!!!
Lena
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