Inspired by graysquirrel’s post , because I’ve wondered the same thing and it appears to not really be possible. It would be great to have this ability for correcting IDs on species that frequently get mis-identified. You can search for either of the species involved and ID, but that only works when…

Definitely support this request, would add a vote if I had any left! EDIT - got more votes, used one!

Unless I’m missing something, I’m thinking that the new ident_taxon_id parameter has already addressed this need. EDIT: Ha! Now I see that’s exactly what you were pointing to also. I saw “?u=tiwane” in your link and thought that was some kind of new parameter.

To address your examples, here’s how to use the new URL parameter to find: observations of thistles at rank=genus where one of the IDs is Cirsium vulgare, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&taxon_id=48561&lrank=genus&ident_taxon_id=52989 or Magnoliopsida with an ID of R…

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tiwane March 21, 2019, 10:20pm 3

We just added this URL param, is this something that would work for you? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identification-filter/991/7?u=tiwane

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