Hello everyone! I enjoy searching for species, especially birds, in places I plan to visit or would like to visit. However, I’ve noticed more and more often that multiple observations show not only the same species (which is completely fair) but the same individual (sometimes it is uploaded also wi…

Do you identify for others? (Yes, I see you do) If the field marks are scattered across various obs - which, because they are scattered, may attract various different IDs = lots of extra work for burnt out identifiers. The identifier asks - does it have a red chest, blue feet, a long curved beak ?…

[image] DianaStuder: Wait! I have already IDed that one … yup = Duplicate, sometimes even 3 or 4. Sometimes even up to 100!

Presence data is unavoidably biased by the observers and how busy they are. If they’re going to the same spot every day and observing the same bird each time, it’s valid for those all to be separate observations (and I don’t think you should be bugging them into deleting them). I don’t think it’s w…

The other side of the split vs lump for multiple images is what if you watch a butterfly or cicada emerge over several hours? You might well get interesting things to see that merit different observations and stringing them all into one kind of breaks the “point in time” assumption about observation…

I think this can be an issue if someone wants to use the data for research purposes. In these case, it would be necessary, and probably feasible, to gather all the observations of the same species placed in a circle of n meters radius. In other cases, maybe, it could be better to leave this issue b…

Unfortunately I’ve stumbled upon multiple duplications of a single individual This is just an example with observations of Coracias garrulus. It is 100% a single bird on a wire but it has at least 6 observations about it. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161284455 https://www.inaturalist…

I usually identify only one observation too, but there is the risk that the other observation will be identified in another way and maybe both will get the Research Level.

7 obs of the one bird - 7 IDs by others - could have taken 6 other obs to RG instead. Ultimately it comes down to where identifiers choose to spend their iNat time, and trying to get obs out of the Needs ID pool for the next identifier. I Mark as Reviewed and push to Casual (within guidelines)

If it’s the same individual on the same date at the same place, all the photos should be placed in a single observation. Here’s somebody’s copypasta that I’ve used to deal with this: "Hi, it looks like photos of this organism are uploaded as separate observations. On iNaturalist, multiple photos o…

How can you treat multiple observations that depict the same individual?

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raymie July 12, 2024, 4:57pm 11

I’ve never see more than a few duplicates of a single individual by the same observer on the same date. If it “wastes my time” then it is only seconds.

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How can you treat multiple observations that depict the same individual?

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