# Help with an inat query please

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588 "2025-08-06T21:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![apcorboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/apcorboy/32/2372_2.png) [@apcorboy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/apcorboy)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/1 "2025-08-06T21:51:41Z")

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Is there query that lets me find my observations where I didn’t give an initial ID? I am seeing several of my older observations where there is not an initial ID from me - not even “unknown”.

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**Author:** ![apcorboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/apcorboy/32/2372_2.png) [@apcorboy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/apcorboy)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/2 "2025-08-06T21:54:10Z")

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I see I should have put this into the “how to inaturalists search URLs” topic.

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**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/3 "2025-08-06T22:58:58Z")

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This should work for you: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&user\_id=apcorboy](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&user_id=apcorboy)

Edit: Looks like the “Reviewed:No” field might not save in the URL.

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**Author:** ![fluffyinca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/fluffyinca/32/10786_2.png) [@fluffyinca](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/fluffyinca)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/4 "2025-08-06T22:59:34Z")

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“without\_ident\_user\_id=apcorboy” is what you’re looking for. Here is the Explore search: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=apcorboy&without\_ident\_user\_id=apcorboy](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=apcorboy&without_ident_user_id=apcorboy)  
I looked through all of these and all but one are observations where you did make an initial ID, then withdrew it after someone else added one. Here is the one observation where you didn’t add an ID at all: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1902425](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1902425)

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**Author:** ![apcorboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/apcorboy/32/2372_2.png) [@apcorboy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/apcorboy)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/5 "2025-08-07T17:54:16Z")

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> [@upupa-epops](#):
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> [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasu](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasu)

This works most of the time - some of these observations did have an initial ID from me. This is just an attempt by me to figure out why I had so many observations that I didn’t add an ID too - seems puzzling but not important. Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![apcorboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/apcorboy/32/2372_2.png) [@apcorboy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/apcorboy)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/6 "2025-08-07T17:54:28Z")

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This works most of the time - some of these observations did have an initial ID from me. This is just an attempt by me to figure out why I had so many observations that I didn’t add an ID too - seems puzzling but not important. Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-with-an-inat-query-please/68588/7 "2025-10-06T17:54:46Z")

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