Personally I found out thanks to the Ontario Parks’s newspaper! I would love to add a photo but can’t find it! I don’t know if it got in the trash or lost in my basement! Will add a photo when I find it! How did you discover iNaturalist?

A wild, colourful turtle joined a family photoshoot in the park. I was trying to figure out what kind it was (I knew it wasn’t a snapping turtle), and I kept getting images for my province from a website called “iNaturalist” in my search results. Seems legit, I thought to myself. I have those kinds …

There is a youtube channel called “It’s Okay To Be Smart”. They did a video on this app and me being the nature loving person I already was decided to download the app and start using it.

I abandoned a site I had been using for sharing pictures and talking about them for years and I kind of got lost. Nature photography is a major hobby for me, but I’m not really hooked if I cannot share it somehow. I tried different formats (Flickr, insta…) but they kind of bored me. Then I remembere…

I found the site originally while doing research for a blog about snakes I used to co-run. However, I started properly using it after the It’s Okay to Be Smart video like another mentioned above. I had just gotten my first DSLR, so it seemed like a good use for the majority of my photos that aren’t …

I initially joined for citizen science but wasn’t really active until I found out how many Euphorbia observations I could identify. At that point, I was hooked.

A fairly new local pollinator group, Mystic Charles Pollinator Pathways, held a meeting introducing it. I’ve glanced at iNaturalist off and on, but it always seemed overwhelming. Getting a tutorial helped me over the hump.

Way back when South Africa was still on iSpot, I was introduced to that by a blogger in England. Now I am addicted to iNat.

How did you discover iNaturalist?

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Is this not a very similar topic to Established Users: How did you Find iNaturalist?
Merge?

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