I couldn’t find how to do this in any existing search URL posts

Added the Alive or Dead values to the wiki: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63

I don’t think searching by annotations is possible. Not just alive, but life stage and sex too as far as I know.

Yes you can, see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63

To search for observations annotated as alive, use term_id=17&term_value_id=18, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?term_id=17&term_value_id=18

[image] jwidness: To search for observations annotated as alive, use term_id=17&term_value_id=18 , e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?term_id=17&term_value_id=18 For clarity, term_id=17 finds observations with the alive/dead annotation filled out with any value, and term_value_id=1…

Identify had a user interface for searching on annotations under “more filters”. I don’t think it is currently available in Explore but editing the URLs as above should work there.

[Edit: Never mind, I see you already answered this]

How do I search for observations annotated as alive?

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How do I search for observations annotated as alive?

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