A Cassin’s finch at one of my feeders has some really nasty looking feet/legs and I wanted to tag it as diseased but don’t know how. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152108939

You just type whatever you want in the tags field. It’s just a string/text value. See [Screenshot_20230324-011443_Chrome] -from https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/annotations

I guess my question should be what tag would be best to help researchers. :slightly_smiling_face:

Ah. Well, that’s possibly variable between the searchers (eg. One is looking for “avian disease” another is looking for “bird foot disorders”, etc). You could put multiple tags, and/or you could add the observation to a few projects (I know there are a few for diseases, etc in wildlife). Here are …

To avoid mistakes, maybe you should upload a close-up of the legs and make it the 1st image? And draw a big red arrow pointing to the disease?

i think people should just read the comments and look at existing IDs.

Forgot to add: You could also make your own project, and then advertise it here: What are your favorite projects? - General - iNaturalist Community Forum

I did upload a closeup of the legs but I couldn’t figure out a way to make it the first image.

Are you on the website or the mobile app? On the website, go to the observation, then edit, then there is a “Re-order photos” link on the right under the photos. 0 is the position for the first pic, and you may have to adjust the other numbers as well [image] On Android, go go to the observati…

How to tag an observation of a diseased bird?

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thomaseverest March 24, 2023, 12:21pm 5

The most helpful thing might be to create a separate observation for the disease, but if you don’t know what it is it might be hard to identify.

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