is there an API call which deletes an Observation Field from an Observation.

That is the legacy v0 API, please use the v1 API: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Observation_Field_Values/delete_observation_field_values_id

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference#delete-observation_field_values-id Here!

Thank you fro the responses. Questions: Does this delete the field or merely set it value to blank? The documentation is unclear on details. Could you give a short example of how to delete observation field xxx from observation # xxx?

here’s an example of an observation with an observation field attached. https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/observations?id=15254910&fields=id,uuid,taxon.id,taxon.name,taxon.rank,observed_on,user.login,submit_date,quality_grade,ofvs.id,ofvs.uuid,ofvs.field_id,ofvs.datatype,ofvs.taxon_id,ofvs.name { "t…

Thank you! That clears things up.

API call to delete Observation Field

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API call to delete Observation Field

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