Wow, it’s like doing invasive species removal in some remediation area, except with iNat data instead of the earth. Thank you for your service. :)
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I went through all the pages for this mushroom - I honestly don’t think it will make a difference, unfortunately, I think the difference is too subtle for CV to really pick up. It doesn’t know the difference between naturally brown pores and ones that are brown because they’re rotten or old ;_;
CV and mushrooms, in general, is really rough a lot of times.
I’ve had a few unknowns lately that are “boundary” posts, like “end of place where species X and Y are abundant” or of red tape in the woods that marks places that should be protected from logging. I’m trying to explain that this kind of “observation”, which basically is just a “pin” for the beginning/end of an area, aren’t really appropriate for iNat, and I hope I’m getting through, the jury is still out for that.
The real question, though: How do I mark them as casual? “No evidence of organism” seems wrong when they’re unknowns and there clearly are many organisms in the pic, and nothing else really fits either. And I don’t want to add a meaningless coarse ID that will never resolve.
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I add the least meaningless ID I can. Someone needs the data point for research. I don’t want to interfere.
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Okay stupid question here, how on earth do you add plant phenology annotations? The option just isn’t there. I tried to research it and I still don’t understand.
Is the observation you’re looking at a flowering plant?
Check that the arrow next to the word Annotations is pointing down. If it is pointing to the right, the annotation fields will not show. Click on the arrow to toggle between the two.
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Is the problem that it is only identified to kingdom?
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Yes. As the ID narrow, the available phenology fields increase
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If it has flowers, ID as Flowering Plant then options to mark as flowering/budding/fruiting with appear.
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Thanks all. You can tell that I don’t annotate often by the fact that I never ran into this issue before.
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I’m still discovering features
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These sorts of observations are welcome to go in this project. They can be there along with some of the other types of observations that need help to go to their best place at iNat. Ultimately someone will come by in “housekeeping” mode later and help you out!
I think you have to be “joined” for the project to let you add observations to it though. If you’re not up for that, just @ me or whatever.
The various types of “obs with probs” are features in our iNat landscape. ;)
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I like this.
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be the pro who helps obs with probs
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Even our grandest of parades needs those guys at the end.
(FWIW I picture the “Improbable” lady in that clip as one of the “last seen 125 years ago” obs that gets into the iNat blog.)
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I just finished identifing/correcting all 2,500+ herp observations in the Bahamas. A lot of misidentified anoles there. Turks and Caicos is up next.
(Orange dots show the observations I haven’t identified).
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Turks and Caicos Islands are done! Kind of a pain correcting even more misidentified anoles. Anybody know any other Caribbean countries in need of assistance?
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How much do you know about Hispaniolan anoles?
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Quite a bit, though I’ve been holding off for a bit since it’s quite a herpetologically-diverse island. I can start after I finish identifying the Cayman Islands.