I also hate that we can’t independently post a sound clip as an observation in and of itself. I’m standing here right now and can identify a great kiskadee, a northern cardinal, a mocking bird, a couch’s kingbird, a black phoebe, an Audibon’s oriole, a lark sparrow, red wing blackbird, great tail gr…

Sounds can be posted as observations - see https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169939-how-do-i-add-sounds-

Like bouteloua said, you can actually upload just sound bites as an observation. Annoyingly though, and I think what you’re getting at, is that when creating a new observation from within the iNat app, you can only take photos, you can’t record audio natively from the app. The best solution I have …

[image] mataan: when creating a new observation from within the iNat app, you can only take photos, you can’t record audio natively from the app. You can record sounds in Android, iOS, and iOS Classic. You may want to change the “Default observation action” in your app to “Show options” if i…

And by doing that, you will see this (sorry for android screenshot): [Screenshot 2025-11-08 at 8.19.32 AM]

There are almost 1.2 million iNaturalist observations with only sounds: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?photos=false&sounds=true

And at the time of writing, more than 1,193,477 sound only posts.

Also can we add sounds AND photos or just one?

Observations can contain both images and sound files, eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263284560

oh sweet, i’ve never seen that before :)

Can't post sounds as observations?

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ilovebugs123 November 7, 2025, 9:20pm 5

And by doing that, you will see this (sorry for android screenshot):

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Can't post sounds as observations?

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