If you look in the upper left corner of the thumbnail of the Jumping Spider, you will see that you have been given credit of the first observation. https://www.inaturalist.org/places/vermont-us#q=Pseudeuophrys%2Berratica
My thought is this is the first posted observation not the earliest observation date. Another thought as well is that the observation needs to reach RG (confirmed).
Thanks. The walkingstick isnāt research grade yet because there was some uncertainty related to its range expansion into Vermont, but the same specimen was observed a year later by someone else, whose observation did end up making research grade. Oh well, this isnāt really the topic for that. Iāll check out the feature you posted about.
Is there a way to limit an āIdentifyā search to observations that have been given IDs by a particular user? There are a few very prolific problematic identifiers, and it would be nice to be able to easily check through them.
Sorry, I was intentionally ignoring you Iād just missed your reply.
In hindsight I donāt think the use case mattered (other than for curiosity, I always find it interesting to see how people are using iNaturalist and might find something I could use myself). I often ask people why they want to do something though since Iāve come across situations where asking why has meant that someone has realised there is another way of achieving their aim. Most people (including me) are often very bad at thinking of all the alternative ways of doing something.
It might be possible to do the āmore than 3 weeks agoā search using a javascript bookmarklet to calculate the date 3 weeks ago then insert it into the url. Iām not sure exactly how to do it or 100% sure thatās possible (Iāve never created a bookmarklet, and donāt currently use javascript enough to be fluent).
Is there a way to build a query for observations by taxon name, rather than taxon codes?
Iām trying to create a link to iNaturalist observations of taxa in a curated project to link to from a Flora, so people can easily access a repository of images in iNaturalist that fulfil a set of quality criteria (from a defined area, research grade only, and with one of our staff having contributed an identification, among others).
I can easily construct a URL for all the criteria I need, except being able to search for a taxon by name. In order to use numbers Iād have to manually look up the taxon codes, which introduces too much maintenance burden for this feature to be feasible.
Thanks @bouteloua, Iām looking for an observation search URL, rather than to search for the taxon. So I would like to be able to search for observations of a taxon using the taxon name in the query string, rather than its code. I hope it makes better sense now!
I added a section to the wiki for this one, just under āSearch for Multiple Taxa.ā There are some limitations mentioned there that you might have run up against. For spaces you can use either %20 or +
This was brought up a couple of posts above yours, and unfortunately itās not available in the current API search capabilities. See the link there for a place to request it.
On more investigation, this is not particularly useful in complex queries that have a chance of returning no matching results. When there are no matching results on taxon name, it shows all results that match the other criteria.
Would you give us an example of a search with taxon_name which returns results from other taxa? I wasnāt able to find any which behave that way in a few minutes of messing around, so it sounds like there might be some specific trigger.
Ah, I get it now. Thanks for the clarification. I focused too much on the ācomplex queriesā part, thinking it meant that adding a bunch of other parameters like place, time, and person caused the search to return wrong results.
@mftasp after some more experimenting, I added more information to the wiki section regarding synonyms and common names. These will work using the same search parameter. But if they are not unique in iNaturalist (e.g., used for more than one taxon), it will only return results for one of the taxa.
Love this, great information. I was trying to figure out how to add observation tag values to search strings, which is super useful. However, I noticed that when the tag is a taxon tag (e.g., Host Plant ID), results are returned only for exact matches and do not including daughter taxa. This makes sense, but in some cases it would be even more useful if I could, for example, get results with a tag containing a genus OR any species in that genus. For example, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=33779&field:Host%20Plant%20ID=53854 returns observations in Leafminers of North America that have the tag Host Plant ID = Ilex, but not those with Host Plant ID = Ilex opaca (or any other Ilex identified beyond genus). Would be nice if it could do the latter as well. Also, looks like it doesnāt allow you to search multiple taxon ids at once by concatenating with a comma.