You don’t have to take photos of everything. Do what’s enjoyable to you, don’t feel pressured to make a certain number of observations.
That’s what I do every day anyway. ;-)
Hello everyone, I want you know that the high number of observations in Ostrava, Czechia have been noticed by the CNC Global Organizing Team. I reached out to the city organizers, and will also be spending time working through their large number of Unknown observations.
What I meant was that if you enter a CNC project as a filter condition in the identify dialog, it will only show you observations that meet the requirements for that project. Observations that fall within participating regions are added automatically to the relevant CNC project; otherwise, the observer has to explicitly join the global project.
I think I can see the ones you mean. They’re not in a participating region, and the observer hasn’t joined the global project, so they aren’t eligible for CNC. If they were, a CNC project would appear in the list of projects on the observation page.
Yes - it’s an unusual collection of observations. Most of them have house numbers in the description, so I would guess it’s some kind of personal/work project. If they were trying to boost CNC stats it would make more sense to just record everything they saw rather than only tree trunks outside residential properties. Then again, CNC is silly season for some folks, so who knows … 
Plants in pots can be wild, too…
- Joined the global one again this year, but I am still very new to CNC.
@DianaStuder is right, that the CNC badge only shows up on an observation if the observer has joined that project. Now that Belfast in on our radar, I’ll start looking at those observations for more like you described her. EDITED: Oops, I didn’t read far enough to see that these particular observations may not be included in a participating city, or the global project.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is having an identification party Tuesday May 5 where CNC Los Angeles organizers and other museum staff will train people to make identifications. Here’s part of the email they sent about the event.
@amyjaecker-jones Can people outside the LA area attend the zoom presentation. I’m assuming some people in other places might be interested in learning how to identify parrots, files, ants, and spiders.
We should note that iNaturalist staff have an ongoing series of video tutorials about identifying:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduYc6-ie4l16mUqv_ANj-ywtRknRELmG
As of 2026 May there are three videos in the series, with more to come.
I emailed NHMLA and they said people outside LA are welcomed to join the ID party zoom event. The presentations will focus on species in Southern California.
The full email from NHMLA provided links to the iNat webinars.
There was just another IDing webinar this morning! @tiwane went over identifying arthropods: how to sort them into their subphyla. Should be posted to the YouTube channel later today!
Here it is! Unfortunately it does involve listening to me talk. Hopefully some folks find it helpful, though.
I need a little bit of support please.
In the CNC observations from Ostrava, there are some species, where sometimes a picture occurs, where a plant is obviously cultivated. And a lot of pictures of the same species where you can’t tell, but suppose (not sure) it could be the same plant.
Is there any rule/ suggestion, when to mark all obs of the same species “cultivated”?
For example
- Viburnum rhytidophyllum
- Symphorycarpus albus
Some are marked automatically “cultivated” (Tulipa, Rhododendron, etc). Thats fine and helpfull.
Thanks in advance.
Moved this post from its original topic here
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cnc-has-a-problem-and-here-is-what-we-can-do/78169
as this is a better fit.
I’ve wondered that too- especially about all the Berberis observations since that genus tends to frequently escape cultivation and spread aggressively in the wild in my area. In cases where I’ve been uncertain, I didn’t mark them as cultivated. As a North American I have no idea if those (or other) species escape cultivation in Ostrava, and it seems possible enough that I’d rather leave that choice to folks with more local experience. I’m willing to bet that most or all of the “ambiguous” observations I’ve seen are indeed cultivated, but I wouldn’t want to bury any true escapes in with the cultivated observations where they’ll be less likely to be found and corrected.
That said, there are definitely others who’ve made far more IDs for that project than I have, and they may have a very different perspective.
@cthawley Thanks for moving it to the right place. I have overlooked that threat. Now is missing the answer, which has been there in the morning. Perhaps you want to move it to here, too?
Yes, thats’s a good input - the knowledge of the reagion makes it much easier to estimate, if a species is cultivated and in which cases exactely. So I will mark the oviously cultivated observations as such, and will leave the others to lokal experts.
Thanks to all, who had helped!
Can anybody tell please, at which time (Europe) the CNC will end exactly? 10th of may at midnight local time?
Thanks!
I presume midnight - today - local time wherever we are.
By midnight, do you mean 0:00 or 24:00?
End of the day 23:59. Left aprox. 16 hours here to ID.
Time to Identify - is still up on the sidebar