I can’t find an answer for this sorry. I was looking for information on where the remaining wild populations of Rock Dove (Columba liva) are in the UK but the results are lost within the thousands of obs of feral pigeons (Columba liva var domestica). I can’t see any way to filter them out.

when you do your search, under filters set the low rank to ‘species’, and it will only return observations ID’ed to that level and above (so in this case, = only ID’ed to species) [image] so this link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lrank=species&place_id=6857&taxon_id=3017 keep in min…

Thanks. I didn’t realise those options were in there but that’s very helpful. It looks like a lot of work is needed to ID all those ferals though. In some cases I’m not sure how to tackle the IDs though especially if the evidence provided is something like a partial dead bird or a single feather. So…

Maybe you’d find the eBird maps more helpful in this case?

If so, here’s a link for the eBird map of wild-type Rock Pigeons: https://ebird.org/map/rocpig2?neg=true&env.minX=&env.minY=&env.maxX=&env.maxY=&zh=false&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2023

Keep in mind that a full species includes all of its subspecies, thus Columba livia is not separate from Columba livia domestica but inclusive of it. It seems that what you really want is to search for the nominate subspecies, Columba livia livia , which of course is exclusive from Columba livia dome…

I did wonder why domestica is listed on here as a variety rather than a subspecies. I assumed because it’s impossible to specifically describe it given the amount of variation and because it’s effectively manmade. It’s given ssp level elsewhere though. I’m confused about the true wild species now to…

Two other search tools that might help can be found the “Search URLs” tutorial threads Part 1 and Part 2 . Search by an exact taxon (no descendants) Exclude a taxon This one would be best for excluding one subspecies but not other subspecies.

How do I search and remove varieties?

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