Good morning! This week’s edition of #IdentiFriday is brought to you by Olympic curling.
Curling: why not multitask?
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That depends on what part of Hong Kong. Once I can figure out accurate dates, I intend on uploading my own Hong Kong observations – from Victoria Peak, an actual rainforest in Central Hong Kong, surrounded by urbanization.
This is the view out of the Victoria Peak rainforest
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Today’s edition of #IdentiFriday is brought to you by iNat firsts. Sometimes you get lucky! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17309052
Also, what the heck is going on with Copper butterflies getting swapped back and forth?
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I wish there were more native Penstemons here in New England. Sigh…
As for Copper butterflies, I haven’t a clue, but I suspect it’s those taxonomists again, trying to stay busy because taxonomy is not a Useful Science (kidding!).
I woke up this morning to see this old observation of mine get swapped into Lycaena and back within hours https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90458688
Some say Penstemon evolved around Utah/Nevada and spread from there. You’ve got other nice plants in New England 
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I just ID’d 112 unknown/life observations. I think that’s going to be my limit for the day (week?)
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We’ve got great plants here, but I’m getting restless to see New! Shiny! plants.
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Nice work!
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Inspired by @tockgoestick I think it would be cool if users who need some attention to their observations could write here on Fridays and we would help how we can!
p.s. I get some statistics of how my needs ID change, now it’s: 4k arthropods, 3,8k plants, 2k fungi, 0,5k birds, around 200 of molluscs and same for mammals.
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ideally if you want some of your things ID-ed, include your URL to make it easier for everyone :D
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?user_id=tockgoestick
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You and tock inspired me to check my own observations. I have 1,038 insects in Needs ID (26% of my total observations) and 789 plants (20%). 77 of the plant observations are in taxa where I am an active/top IDer, so I guess no one else is around to check them 
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Checked out your obs. I can’t help with southwest US plants. :(
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And I see you have a lot of observations waiting in the Big Thicket. I remember fondly when my family went camping there years ago.
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i tried to go through your bees but I don’t know the bees of the region well enough to give any help
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I am doing today what was suggested by another user…finishing this: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&page=11&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&order=asc&place_id=8860&without_taxon_id=48460
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Thing is it can’t be ided from those photos and it’s a question of how they did it on a RG one (there’s a question posted too).
https://araneae.nmbe.ch/data/2168
https://araneae.nmbe.ch/data/812
Not really about my obvs, but I’ve been IDing the South America observations at Animal level (with this link that someone shared to ID kingdoms). There are ~2k obvs but a lot are blurry specks, some are tracks and scat and some just need a few IDs to reach the correct ID. Probably not to hard to get most of them to finer levels
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I’ve had so many tags today! Not sure if it’s due to the #identiFriday or coincidence.
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I check your observations nevertheless, you need to take more pics of each plant, you should photograph leaf from both sides, then if a tree - branch, buds, bark on branch and stomp, if grass then just part of the plant (so it gives good idea on how it looks, but doesn’t show the whole plant if it’s big), then the whole plant. That way it gives you more chances of getting correct id, cause iding shrubs from the distance is hard even when you totally know the local flora.
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