I was referring to doing it on someone else’s observation.
If annkatrinrose did it on my observation 208843471 (now deleted, because 2 others persones identified it, so that we can’t check anymore the result), then it was on someone else’s observation.
I am still surprised about the result, because I expected the placeholder to be “mine” (a replacement for “my” ID) and to come back after someone else ID is removed.
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Yes, an interesting western black widow population was found in Texas recently and may become a new species. If this happens that will be just one of the splits.
It seems a strange way to design a website.
Here is a box for text …
Then silently delete it.
To my partners in identification, the 2024 City Nature Challenge starts tonight at midnight your time. We all know what a slog it is. So, I wish you luck, I wish you strength, I wish you a sturdy sense of humor, and I wish you persistence. The global organizers of the CNC have emphasized over and over again the need to mark captive and cultivated organisms as Not Wild; we can only hope the local organizers and teachers convey that message effectively.
On the brighter side, here in my local CNC, the weather looks quite good for the next four days and several of the best local naturalists are leading field trips for us. Personally, I’d like to reach 1,000 observations (all of them identified upon upload, mind you) and make three times that many IDs before the upload-and-ID period is over. We shall see - those are ambitious goals.
Good luck, everyone!
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I love the idea!
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Best of luck with getting to 1000 observations!
I don’t have a set goal besides seeing how much I can do in terms of both observations and IDs, but maybe next year I’ll be able to make a goal based on that. It’s my first time taking part so it’ll be fun to see how it goes
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I’m always overly ambitious, but last year I made 920 observations, so of course I want to do better this year. (Translation: I am out of my mind!!)
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I feel like I’m the same. I said I didn’t have a goal but then immediately went off and thought “what’s a high but achievable number I could go for?”
I can’t get out much to observe other than for a few hours tomorrow so I’m very tentatively saying 200 observations (I feel like that’s still very overly ambitious but hey weirder things have happened). I feel like I could absolutely do 3000 IDs though so I’m gonna go with that and see what happens
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i think instead of shooting for quantity this year, i want to go in the direction of quality – specifically, i think i want to get some (artistically) beautiful observations (at least more beautiful than i normally make).
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That is a wonderful goal!
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You have ambitious goals, Lynn! And then to want to ID other observations, on top of your own? Whew!
In my area, the organizers didn’t take the necessary steps to join the CNC, but they still scheduled their own BioBlitz for the same four days. I have a relatively modest record from last year to aim for: 130 observations / 72 species. From the forecast, maybe two and a half of the four days will stay dry.
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Well. I’m crazy. And retired. And the weather in my area looks pretty good for all four days. And really, no matter how many observations one makes, it’s a great excuse to get out and just enjoy the natural world.
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Help. Cannot find the info.
How do I exclude one country from the Identify URL for the CNC (big) projects ?
Use ¬_in_place= in the URL
Find all URL strings for exclusions here: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls#exclude
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Call me stupid
This is still showing me South Africa. I know the first observer.
Is it fighting with the filter set to Africa?
I would like Africa, but not South Africa.
For the Global project serving iNatters who don’t have a local project to join.
Found one lonesome soul last year, doing a CNC all on his own - but I didn’t get to ID for him till long after cut off date 
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Have you tried getting the number code for South Africa rather than using the words?
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Please remind me - where I find that?
I went to explore, typed in South Africa as the place, and then looked at that URL to find place_id=6986.
So let’s try https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?per_page=8&iconic_taxa=unknown&order_by=observed_on&project_id=189155&place_id=97392¬_in_place=6986 which turns up nothing. Is it working and there’s really nothing, or have we made a mistake?
Edit: well if I take off the requirement for unknowns, I do get observations. So perhaps there’s really just no unknowns.
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