This should be in the same neck-of-the-woods of the interests of the iNaturalist community. The crowdsourced science platform Zooniverse just released a project that asks users to identify waterfowl from aerial photos. The data will be used to develop an image recognition dataset so land managers c…

just spent about 20 minutes trying this out, and here are some of my takeaways for people who might be interested: the species they’re focusing on seem to be Mallard, Canada Goose, and Sandhill Crane, but you’re just asked to indicate ducks, geese, or cranes in general. if you see any species that…

This is addictive. It kind of feels like one of those “prove you aren’t a robot” tests, but instead of click on every picture containing a stoplight it’s click on every duck. I love it.

When I read the first post, what immediately came to mind was that awful children’s game called “Duck-Duck-Goose.”

Haha “Duck, Goose, Crane”. The variation played at nature schools. “Anas, Branta, Antigone” for the classical nature schools?

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TheWoah May 11, 2021, 5:57pm 2

Dont they all look different from far away though?

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