There are 2 state parks near Tucson at different elevations. I can generate a list of species observed at each. What I want to know is which are at one but not the other. Can I construct an INat search to tell me?
If you can export a list of species from both areas as a .txt file you can import it into Google Sheets or Excell, both programs have ways of doing that
If A = B then True else False
If each place has fewer than 500 species, the iNaturalist compare tool can work.
Assuming you need something to handle more than that, you can use this third party tool: https://ca-plants.github.io/inat-tools/taxa.html
For example, you can find species observed in Oracle State Park, excluding species observed in Catalina State Park
@glauber735’s tool can do something something similar in this case (comparing two places): https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/species-compare.
Thanks! (I’m a newbie at this and haven’t found a way to export to a .txt file using the web interface. I’ll look around for it some more.)
there’s not really a function for this in the main platform. there are some third-party tools that will allow you export such lists, including the tools mentioned above.
OK, it’s under Filters. Thanks again.
Yes, that’s what I was hoping for. At the moment I don’t see how to navigate to it (web interface) so I’ll save the link. Thanks!
I know you can export a CSV file from the main search menu. If there’s no other way, I guess you could simply copy and paste the output to a txt file. But it looks like you have a better option above anyway.
if i’m understanding your note here, i just wanted to point out that the export function here exports observations, not taxa. although you could derive a list of taxa from an observation export, i think the most efficient way to get lists of taxa is going to be via the API or one of the third-party tools that get data from the API.
Both programs can import files in a number of formats, .txt is the easiest for me but I think .csv works too.