Lately it seems like every day the large pile is getting a little smaller, by an amount that would take the help of multiple people per day. Thanks everyone! The large pile by my current reference: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&orde…

@aphili8 - are you still working on May? I’ve joined you :)

I did a little Cape Town today, hoping I don’t get any complaints that I’m not local.

from me you will only get thanks!

Yeah, still working on May! I do some other things too, but If I’m zeroing in on unknowns, then May is my month.

Those are some amazing stats, well done!

I did some of these after the City Nature Challenge (part of a web conference to ID Observations from the project). This weekend I did a lot more and it was very successful. When I checked my Dashboard this morning there were 15 notifications, most about Unknowns I’d promoted, and more have trickled…

Following reading your post I did the same yesterday, sorting through the unknown bin. I was surprised that just being able to ID to the class or family seems to be helpful. I was quite surprised that sometimes the observers would not try to guess at the kingdom level.

Many new users don’t understand where to put id and hveother problems, so it seems it’s easy to leave the id blank.

Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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Amy - honourable mention - thank you for 800 IDs!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/52132/journal/34751

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Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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