I live here!
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Bahrain or Tuvalu are both are places I’ve had my eyes on for a while and both are criminally under-represented on iNat
Madagascar and Aldabra are also places I would love to visit, but with a magical all paid trip they’re lower priority compared to the other two.
Lots of insects and other arthropods to see and all of those places are wildly different than what I can find here in Canada
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I have been pretty lucky with my travel, did Colombian Amazon last year, Peruvian Amzon this year and will hit up another Amazon country next year (Currently undecided which).
A place which is both fainancially prohibitive, but also possible challenges with permits and such is I would really like to have a good look around some of the Sub-Antartic Islands.
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Here in NZ you will be able to see plenty of House Sparrow, Dunnocks, Thrushes, blackbirds, green/gold finch. Compared to the ~2400 known native vascular plants we have ~26,000 introduced ones. So plenty of chances to see plants which also remind you of home.
Are you also in NZ? I’m in Auckland.
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Taiwan is an awesome iNatting destination.
For me, those are quite high priority, given the thread parameters. Aldabra especially. Not to mention South Atlantic islands like Ascension or the Tristan group.
If I had to give my honest answer, though, it’s a tough choice between the Brazilian Amazon and the Congo rainforest. In both of those places, you could observe hundreds of taxa on a brief stroll, even if you never came upon any of the charismatic megafauna.
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Yep, I live/work in the Paparoa National Park on the West Coast.
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Nice! I’ve never been to the West Coast but I want to.
Borneo
Congo and Amazon also come to mind
(this is ignoring geopolitical and other hazards in those areas)
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New Caledonia, New Zealand, or some portion of Chile.
Would love to see some Gondwana remnants, a long with all of the endemics! Very big bucket list destinations of mine.
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I really want to go to New Caledonia. I live in NZ and I’ve visited Fiji and also 'Eua island in Tonga (where I used to live) which is known as a fragment of Gondwana. I’ve seen Tonga’s endemic podocarp, the Podocarpus pallidus, only found on two islands in Tonga, including 'Eua.
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Some other places I want to go to are New Caledonia, Costa Rica, the Subantarctics of NZ and Australia, and all the islands of Polynesia other than Tongatapu, where I lived for most of my life and I’ve heavily iNatted in.
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I havent done much in the North Island, will at some point, just too much to do down this way. Hopefully to make it here at some point. Do a track like the Pororari-Punakaiki Loop which is about 3 hours (Without inatting) and you can knock out over 1k species (Many yet to be added) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=-42.10423229363114&nelng=171.37243917664875&subview=map&swlat=-42.12976284969648&swlng=171.32145574769368
And because of how remote and under-represented we are, just 20% of that and you will already be in the top 50 for the entire west coast region. (Although I just checked and 230 species will still put you in the top 100 in Auckland region). I guess we are a nation of a small number of people going hard.
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I hope this offer is applicable for domestic flights and hotels also. So in that case…also everyone is welcome.
I would love to see the taxonomic fisticuffs when you upload those!
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I would go to Palau. It’s got giant land crabs, jellyfish, seaturtles, and all kinds of tropical fish.
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Jellyfish Lake is amazing.
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some place in europe where you can easily find songbirds. like great tit, blue tit, marsh tit, european robin idk
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Suriname in South America. My other half would have a ball with the reptiles. I spent 3 months there as a med student in 1992 when it had just come out of a decade of civil war. It gave me an appreciation of tropical medicine and the evils of war ( surgery not being able to be done because the theatre was on the first floor and the lift was broken; the pathology lab having to create all their reagents from scratch. Seeing children with giant hydrocephalus heads.)
Gabon would-be a cool African country. I’m there for the pygmy elephants.
I already live in Australia but I would love to visit all the islands of Australia. There are mutters about a flight from Darwin to Christmas Island. I am so there for that.
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I can’t resist starting with: you know you’re seriously into iNat when everywhere is an iNatting destination! (-: Your topic is so tempting, and also so difficult! Because of the “for free” aspect, I would choose wherever it would be most cost-prohibitive for me to get myself to. I imagine that anything on the opposite side of the globe from me probably fits that bill. So, following that line, Mongolia tempts me, and straying slightly off course, so do Borneo and Australia, and, Antarctica.
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