How to search for observations once identified as some taxon now inactive?

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My problem:
I’m trying to locate all observations of a taxon (a ‘forma rubra’ orchid) that has been inactivated by a merge.

Use case:
salvage interesting information that had to be removed in order to mirror POWO’s scheme, e.g. to recycle this lost info as an ‘Observation Field’ (or even to revert an unfortunate taxon change, some day).

Example:
I am able to retrieve the ‘taxon_id’ for an inactive taxon thanks to the deprecated taxon search page, however it seems unusable with the ‘Observations’ or ‘Identify’ search pages. Neither ‘taxon_id’ nor ‘ident_taxon_id’ URL search params deal with inactive identifications or inactive taxa…

Am I missing something? Is there a way, some URL param to use, or perhaps a trick with the API? Even getting a list of relevant obs as json result or csv file would be enough. Thanks!

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You can search for IDs of inactive taxa here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications
(see list of search parameters on the right side)

Sometimes it gets redundant with multiple IDs on the same observation, but it’s at least in the right direction.

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Thanks ! Not the most straightforward to parse, but that will do for my purposes :)

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Here is the link for you : https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications/?taxon_id=1548681&current=false

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Sounds like AI-generated vague B.S. and spammy, but congrats on your first posts…

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If you suspect something is spam, please flag it, no need to interact with it in any other way - thanks!

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