There are a fair amount of existing threads on how identifications are counted and why they are different in different places. Some examples:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifications-count-is-different-from-my-profile-and-when-you-click-identifications/23000
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inconsistencies-in-identification-counts-for-taxa/43701
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ident-count-on-identify-page-thumbnails-is-inconsistent-and-count-in-app-is-also-different/8571
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