I’ve been going through my observations one by one and annotating them all, but I’ve come across a few things that I’m puzzled about the right options to choose. One of these things is when there is evidence of an organism that is the destruction of something - for example, branches clearly felled …

At the moment there is no appropriate annotation for these kinds of observations. See previous thread that also discuss “destruction type” observations: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/does-the-evidence-of-presence-track-annotation-count-for-any-animal-imprint/ Several others were merged into this…

I don’t believe that this statement [image] sbasalaev: At the moment there is no appropriate annotation for these kinds of observations is totally correct. [image] tabbybrobston: holes left behind by borer beetles certainly count as a construction for the purposes of annotations on i…

[image] tabbybrobston: holes left behind by borer beetles to the beetle it’s construction of a tunnel.

I could use some more clarification about the gray area here-- There are a good number of observations in this category. Beaver chews are one good example. If a bear scratches a tree, that can’t be annotated because it’s not a construction and not a track? What about buck rubs, or logs torn apart b…

We accept - some cannot be annotated (yet). Construction is a newer annotation. Owl pellets, are not scat. Pine cones are not ‘fruit’

[image] drew_meyer: Are the “evidence of presence” annotations intended to account for all observations or are we accepting that some can’t be annotated? The annotations were never intended to cover every possible use case; there are observation fields for that. Annotations are intended to be…

How to annotate observations that show damage done by an organism?

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How to annotate observations that show damage done by an organism?

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