[IMG_4423] I’m not sure what to do with this. 6 probably identifiable bird species in 1 photo. Is it useful or a distraction? It’s taken from a distance, but I thought it might be interesting to see multiple species sharing the same area in close proximity. I guess it could be uploaded and duplic…

[image] faerout: I guess it could be uploaded and duplicated 5 times and count for 6 observations. Absolutely!

I agree with everyone who suggests uploading it and then duplicating the observation 5 times so there are 6 separate observations. In each one you can describe in words which bird this particular observation represents. Bonus point for at least one of the observations to link to all the others.

If, for some reason, I want to upload a photo with more than one individuals, I’ll often put a magenta circle around it. I use Photoshop to do it but you can probably do it in other software programs. Not required, of course. But an option you might be interested in using.

I would suggest creating the best crop you can for each species in the photo. Then create an observation initially with just the full photo, and duplicate it for each of the 6 species. Then edit each observation, and add the relevant crop as the top photo for each species. That way you have indic…

Thanks to everyone who commented! I decided to go ahead and upload. @jdmore I included the full photos rather than crops. Crops would have been very small and taken a lot of extra time. Also, there were three photos, since the birds moved slightly, and the extra photos will help with ID. I also not…

Thank you. I just learned the other day that you can see all observations linked to a photo by clicking the small “i” button under the photo, next to the CC and flag icons.

You can prepare 6 variants of this photo with a white dot near the each next species and upload this variants with marked birds.

Making crop is less than a minute but can help iders significantly and save much more time.

[image] faerout: Crops would have been very small and taken a lot of extra time. You can use the full photo(s) on each observation with the description to get something up in a hurry, and then add the crop (or circled/arrowed, etc) version as additional photo on each observation later. E.g. …

i too would just make six observations out of the photo :) While cropping is nice, it isn’t mandatory. I don’t have an easy way to do it in the field, so usually don’t crop. Someday perhaps iNat will allow for annotating on the uploaded photo.

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Star3 September 16, 2020, 12:07am 16

Yep! No one’s saying crop (or circle/arrow/tag/etc) is required, but it’s definitely considerate.

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