Hey friends! So I have a wildlife tracker (seen in photos below) that I’ve been keeping up with for a couple of years ago and I’ve never really ran into the problem I am now. For the most part I see animals 1 or 2 at a time, so my tracker looks like “2 snakes 08/23/23” with a more detailed written o…

i don’t keep a tracker outside of what i report to citizen science, and i don’t, personally, see any issue with having a large amount of reported individuals from one day… however, perhaps reporting it at 1 herd {100+ bison} and your yearly totals would otherwise be “Bison - {however many others you…

The eBird help center has a good article, How to Count Birds , that has many tips that are applicable for counting large groups of any taxa. Is your qualm with the inherent loss of precision in estimating large groups or because you dislike the unevenness of the species totals? If the former, perhap…

That’s true, I didn’t think of that! It’s not really an issue scientifically (or otherwise) speaking, just a weird personal dislike lol. But thank you!

I have a couple of pictures in my post of what it looks like. It’s just a file that I use on my phone & in google docs to keep track of the wildlife I’m seeing and I’ll make observations (like where I saw them, what time, what the weather conditions were like, what the animal was doing, etc.).

A question for maintaining a wildlife tracker

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kevintoo August 11, 2023, 7:19pm 5

Ummmm… what IS a wildlife tracker?

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A question for maintaining a wildlife tracker

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