I have been working on a simple list of total number of unique species seen in my yard to share with family members that are not on & not interested in using iNaturalist. However, to do so am having to search each order/superfamily/family. Is there any easier way to automatically get this data for …

I think you can get that information on your dynamic lifelist: https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/YOURUSERNAME?view=tree&tree_mode=full_taxonomy

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&lrank=infrahybrid&place_id=any&user_id=becksnyc&verifiable=any&view=species This shows only those ID’d to species level. i.e. doesnt count anything that only made it to Genus.

Yes, that’s what I was scrolling through, but I still had to filter for just what was seen in my yard and not in other locations. That’s what’s taking time.

Oh, you can define the area by clicking map, zooming to wherever you want, the hit the orange, “Redo search in map” Then hit the Species tab again. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&lrank=infrahybrid&nelat=42.04107257037849&nelng=-77.83521896589642&place_id=any&subview=map&swl…

If you have it in a project you can export the observations also, and manipulate in Excel.

The filter button, has “Project” criteria too, use that if your project is well defined

it doesn’t look like the dynamic life list allows input of a project ID, but it does look like the underlying (undocumented) API endpoint can be used with a particular project ID: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/taxonomy?user_id=becksnyc&project_id=my-yard-survey . you can try to parse t…

Thank you for your ideas and input, I appreciate it. And, “free account?” I had not heard that paid accounts were available or give further functionality? Where can I find more info? Thanks

a paid Observable account, not a paid iNat account.

Help me simplify a simple species list, please

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egordon88 October 14, 2022, 10:09pm 2

I hope you get the help you’re looking for. Afterwards, come visit us at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/monitoring-gardens-and-spreading-the-message/26094

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Help me simplify a simple species list, please

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