I have started to visit the “identify” page, and to give some tentative IDs to people’s observations. Like a lot of people on here, I am familiar with nature, especially with the common plants and animals of my area, but I am not a scientist, and don’t have specific training. So should I still give…

How much expertise should we have when identifying?

bouteloua May 11, 2020, 3:37am 6

@mnharris you’ll find many more thoughts on this here:

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