Friday is here! Today I’d like to request checking Lepidoptera observations I have, many ided to species by experts, so just need someone else to prove it’s correct!
Or you can help with getting needs id for Gatchina to go further to 0, only 252 right now.
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My goal for tomorrow (still Thursday in the Western Hemisphere) is the last 200 IDs to reach six digits. Send me something random to help with?
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Congrats on your upcoming 100,000th ID!
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This week I suggest you looking into Diptera of Europe https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/diptera-of-europe, where 64% of observations are still in need of id, it means those unidentifiable should be marked so and those ok one should get an id at least one step closer to species.
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I recently got tired of IDing plants (except for those submitted by people I follow) so I’ve switched to doing audio observations for a while. There are several birds I know well, several more I need to double check, and others I can possibly narrow down to family or have no clue on. I’m also learning the local frog & toad calls so I can ID my observations and start trying to ID other people’s obs.
PS if anyone else IDs audio please check out mine that need ID (southeast Texas)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&quality_grade=needs_id&sounds&user_id=lappelbaum&verifiable=any
PPS If you have bird audio that needs ID in the US or Canada, drop me a link and I’ll check yours out. Otherwise I’ll probably just be doing east Texas and Louisiana.
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Bridging my gap. Audio goes straight to Mark as Reviewed for me.
If I do 155 IDs today, I’ll hit 75,000 IDs overall. That’s within the realm of possibility.
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As for something random to help with, how about Lepidoptera in New England? Specifically the moths, which I’m only just getting into. It is the height of moth season here and there are lots of Needs Id observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=52339&taxon_id=47157
Only 4,854 pages at 30 observations a page…
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The Unknowns in Rest of Africa (about 2K to go)
Mostly, but not only, plants … dicots … ??
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?per_page=10&iconic_taxa=unknown&order_by=observed_on&place_id=97392&project_id=123926
Please check for notes or placeholder text. Check for tiny typos (probably observers are defaulting to English or French from their first language, then to Botanese), as the taxon may already be on iNat. If it is a missing species - flag for curation, find the POWO entry and add the link to a comment on the flag. Copypasta placeholder text as a comment (since iNat dumps it when we add an ID, thanks, not)
And a PS broad taxon for plants in Rest of Africa … get sent here to die. 38K. Family has a little more hope of being helped to a better ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?per_page=10&iconic_taxa=unknown%2CPlantae&order_by=observed_on&place_id=97392&project_id=123926&taxon_id=47126&lrank=family
Every little helps. Thank you.
As luck would have it, number 100,000 is a first state record (on iNat) from the unknown pile https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125329193
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Wow!!
Happy Friday, again!
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Have hammered the Rest of Africa down to 1.5K … getting there.
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It’s my first #IdentiFriday! Taking this as a nice opportunity to continue my quest of going through all the unknowns in Idaho. :) I like to go through one page at a time when viewing them as a grid, so let’s see if I can do at least 96. Will report back here later…
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And I’m done for tonight now with 75. Not as many as I planned to, but I’m happy with that!
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there are 2 species of cottontail rabbits in my area, and i just learned that the Swamp Rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) often has a more reddish-yellow ring around its eye vs the white ring of the Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus). (the Swamp Rabbit is bigger, too, of course, but that’s often hard to judge in photos.) so for this IdentiFriday, i’ll probably try to go through some of my local genus-level observations to get them down to species, if i can: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lrank=genus&place_id=110679&taxon_id=43096.
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That’s something I’ve been working on too sometimes. Swamp rabbits also put their scat up on high surfaces like on top of logs. I assume because they are using their scat as a territory scent marker which could be washed away on the frequently wet ground where they prefer to live. I have noticed a subtle difference in the shape of their head too. If there are any you aren’t sure of you can tag me.
I have Swamp Rabbits in my backyard
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=79239&taxon_id=43116
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Same! Desert has larger ears and bodies and is found at lower elevations than mountain cottontails in New Mexico
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I can’t do a lot of ids, but try to keep local projects clean, I finished https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=bioraznoobrazie-leningradskoy-oblasti, so if anyone wants to check it, it has mainly fungi and plants, but also lots of birds and insects, so if you know Northern European fauna/flora, those should be not new to you!
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What do you mean “clean”?