Do you make more observations or identifications? I’m newer to iNat so far I’ve got more identications. In fact I’ve already got 800 identifications.

I have now more ID than obs, but it was not the case until 2 years ago. It took me some time to get enough confidence to be able to give back to the community, but once I did, IDs pilled up so fast ! (although not that fast compared to the most prolific IDers)

1002 observations, 67,274 identifications. 'Nuff said.

Right now I have way more observations than identifications. I’ve learned to distinguish some species but often times they are the ones that a lot of people already ID as well because they are easy. I know some more niche species but I never feel confident enough to ID them because I always feel lik…

This year (2024) so far, I have made 20,983 observations of 2,077 species and have made 78,891 identifications. My identifications normally run about 3x my observations.

Nice topic and replies. A lovely read! With a little over 25000 identifications and a little over 4000 observations in two years, I have about six times as many identifications as observations, and I strive to keep it that way. Identifying other people’s photos is not only a way of giving back the …

I’m at about 10:1 IDs to observations - I figure if I want other people to spend their time identifying my ridiculous number of observations, I’d better help out too!

Thanks for everyone for sharing!

More observations than IDs according to the stats but I aim to ID everything I observe. The way things are calculated, though, it doesn’t give credit for those.

I have about 5 times as many IDs as I have obs. I can get through IDs a lot faster than posting obs.

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HCoste November 20, 2024, 10:59pm 34

More IDs than observations by a large margin. I like to observe things! It’s lovely. But I really enjoy the process of IDing, so I do that far more often. Working on catching up my annotations however!

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