I created a project for people in New Zealand to log in sightings of monarch butterflies overwintering (i.e. these are not just single monarchs but ONLY in NZ and ONLY midwinter/overwintering). A couple of questions:
When I uploaded my 14 different sightings yesterday - some of them went back to 2017 - it didn’t offer me the choice of recording them in the project I’d created.
When I searched for the 14 sightings I entered it shows me thousands of general monarch butterfly sightings - some in other seasons and all over the world.
Your project is a collection project, so observations cannot be manually added to it. For any given observation, either it fulfils the project criteria and automatically goes into into the project, or it doesn’t. If you want observations to be manually added, you need to make a traditional project (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/new_traditional)
I was wrong. They’re not global they’re all NZ. Sorry about that. What I’m trying to do is find an easy way to extract sightings of overwintering clusters - 50+ monarch butterflies together on the sunny side of trees, where they are in diapause.
there is no ‘easy’/automatic way to do this for such a specific request. The only way is to create a traditional project instead, and then manually add relevant observations to it. It’s not possible for a collection project to automatically collate such a highly specific set of observation criteria; collection projects operate on basic filters like time, place, annotation, user.