You can read a lot on the forum on why observing common species is needed, first of all you can’t say it’s common when you have no data about it, and that’s the case for most common speies, next many common species are actually threatened or endangered, their population trend is going down (which is known by observing them, by different groups of couse, not iNat, but…), so each spot you observe them is valuable, thrid is most species we see each day have known ranges, that’s not a reason not to observe something if it’s expected, it can be different in ten years, and probably was different 50 years ago at the same spot, 4th is that you likely miss many rarer species because they look too much like common ones.
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