The Explore page ( www.inaturalist.org/observations ), sometimes called “observations search” or “obs search”, was written in code which is older and now out of sync than newer parts of the site such as Identify and observation details. This means that rather than add new functionality to the current …

[image] jwidness: To see counts of infrataxa without doing a data export, you can use https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_observations_taxonomy . This is pretty useful. It would be nice if it didn’t show the full tree though if you are trying to get an exact taxon count. Maybe an option coul…

[image] keirmorse: To provide a very simplistic example of this problem just looking at a single species, check this search out of Eriogonum umbellatum . I’m working on a website to that adds features to iNaturalist Explore page. One feature I added is to display the subspecies with observat…

Excellent! Nice to have tiles with the taxon page cover photo. Possible to have a link to the observations (link to iNat) on the text “1 829 observations” in the tile?

[image] keirmorse: There is also just a lot of clutter in the view if you don’t want to see all the empty nodes. the nodes provide context, and i’m hesitant to remove nodes to reduce clutter for just one use case, if the tradeoff is loss of context. to me, it seems like it should be relativel…

[image] wy_bio: I’m working on a website to that adds features to iNaturalist Explore page. One feature I added is to display the subspecies with observations counts. This is cool! Is there a way to see all taxa together at their identification level or just species, subspecies, and varieties…

[image] jeanphilippeb: It seems that now it works as I have requested, there are tiles for higher rank taxa: What is the url for the search shown in your screenshot?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=274258&verifiable=any&view=species

[image] keirmorse: If I try adding species to that, the observations go up to include them but it still shows just those below the species rank in the subspecies tab. I adjusted the site to display species and those below species if people use the filters to select higher ranks and ranks belo…

[image] wy_bio: I adjusted the site to display species and those below species if people use the filters to select higher ranks and ranks below species. Great! Out of curiosity, I just tried this to see what vascular plant taxa I have not observed in a local park . With just species, I get 104…

[image] keirmorse: Going back to Eriogonum umbellatum , we can now easily see how many are identified only to species and as well as how many are IDed to each of the lower ranks all on one page. This really makes it easier to get quick summaries beyond just the species rank. In this case, it well…

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wy_bio January 31, 2026, 10:12pm 417

What is the url for the search shown in your screenshot?

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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