#IdentiFriday is the happiest day of the week

Work is slow today so I’m jumping on the #IdentiFriday bandwagon! One question: I’ve seen a few folks mention a Discord channel with some coordination or additional iNat chat. Anyone have an invite link?

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I changed it recently because the thumbnail was the same photo for the swamp rabbit species and cottontail genus. I’m not partial to the replacement photo for the swamp rabbit. I can change it again. The photo you linked might not be good for the thumbnail, but I can put it in the first 5.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-inat-unofficial-discord-server/3707

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unofficial-inat-discord-server/904

Maybe here?

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Should have thought to search the forum, thanks!

Inspired by the request of Eliott that made me realize I am missing so much input for US-american spiders, I spent IdentiFriday solely on US-american spiders today :-)

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Last admin comment about duplicates is this:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/an-abundance-of-duplicate-observation-flags/32582/15

So yeah, “fail upward” for now is how I’ve been rolling.

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Relatedly, as I’ve been annotating the “Lepidoptera” level from the oldest end, it’s so cool to see nowadays that on Fridays, there’s a sudden new influx of Lepidoptera records to annotate right on my first page. ;)

(Don’t worry if your id workflow makes it hard to annotate the leps, in other words- I have your back for now.)

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My latest bite of my elephant was mammals from the Peninsula. 400 mostly can’t help ID, so will annotate - track, scat, dead bones - the residue that Needs ID.
But I did find a sambar! (If I saw one on the mountain I would be convinced I was hallucinating - a deer the size of a horse)

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Thanks!

I can click on it and it tries to run. But I can’t seem to change the parameters to my I’d after it runs. I could copy it someplace and modify it, but then I don’t know where to go to run it, if you know what I mean.

I’m working on really old plant observations in my area today
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=Plantae&order=asc&lat=30.607440&lng=-94.402160&radius=90&place_id=any

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wow. there’s a reason a lot of these still need ID.

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I’m finding plenty I can ID

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well, you’re a better plant identifier than i am. i scanned though about 600 observations and ended up with maybe 25 species IDs that i felt good about. i might do some more later though. maybe they get easier as they get more recent.

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If I started on page 1 and went through every single observation I would be bored to death. I jump around a lot so I do some really old ones and some not quite as old ones. I didn’t do anything uploaded after 2018 today. I did 60 IDs and moved 29 of those to RG.

Just out of curiosity I checked and found that out of the 8,216 verifiable plant observations that I have IDed (mine not included), 875 of them were submitted before 2017 (I joined iNat in Apr 2017) and 340 of those are now RG (I didn’t necessarily bring them to RG myself). Good to see that looking at old observations does make a difference.

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Looks more encouraging than my pile of green - planty - broad leaves - sob.
You have flowers to play with!

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Anyone willing to tackle a fresh delivery of dead fish from the West African project?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&iconic_taxa=unknown&order_by=observed_on&place_id=97392&project_id=123926

It’s that time again. Click click grumble grumble the identifiers fight song.

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I should get myself some pom-poms if we’re going to sing the identifiers fight song.

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Hmm, thinking about what to do today…maybe I should try to get something new IDed… will have a look around

Edit: Ended up with going into some Aculepeira in Europe, but this will probably extent to the US as well… not a lot of species around there :-)