Is there a way to set up a project for an area to see only the critters that come out at night?
I was just trying to do it for my town and I wanted to set it up to see animals that were documented between 9pm and 5am.
Any ideas?
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You probably should create a traditional account, time frame can be only done once for bioblitz projects, so it’s not possible to make just night project automatical.
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Using the API it looks like you can filter start and end times within the day for observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference
Of course, that relies on people having the date/time set correctly on their devices, which is often not the case when taking with a camera (vs phone). I leave my camera set to my home-base date/time and don’t change it when traveling, and I know a lot of folks who never set the date/time on their cameras.
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