I’m a little skeptical about both how many people are IDing at kingdom Animalia specifically (rather than not filtering taxonomically at all or filtering to finer ranks of Animalia) and what proportion of those are in turn willing/able to ID most sound observations. As stated elsewhere in this thread I think
is almost entirely due to the lack of sound IDers. I guess taken literally moving every unknown sound ID to Animalia would “solve” this problem, but I don’t think there’s much of a difference in a rank unknown sound observation and a rank Animalia sound observation both in terms of likelihood of getting an ID and in general quality of the ID. Actually if I had to guess I would suspect an unknown sound observation is slightly more likely to get an ID than a rank Animalia one because of the large number of people specifically IDing unknowns.