Edited to add a clarifying note about this thread In 2024 I became curious about what kinds of observations would be made in Paris during the summer Olympics. I created a project and “reported” the “events”. Watching what observations come in during the Olympics in the Olympic region is a fun way t…

What a fun way to look at an area! :-) The Grey Heron has caught up and is now neck and neck with the Common Buzzard, which leaves the favourited Mallard on third place.

These Games are an absolute banger. Only a few days in and the results shift practically every hour. In the Species event, it looked like perennial contestant Mallard was positioned for a move but Birds-eye Speedwell held on to first, Great Tit surged ahead into second and rounding out third a thre…

I am loving this thread. Thanks for the smiles!!!

The speedwell really lives up to its name. :-))

I hope someone was iNatting during the squirrel incident… :)

Oh - was the squirrel injured ? Looks nasty for the squirrel, and probably terrified by all the noise and hordes of people everywhere.

The caption indicates that squirrel attempted the slopes at the 2018 Games, so looking for a historical Olympic record. edit because now I have done research: Sadly there are only two Observations of that Order from there in 2018 and neither fit the bill. [Screenshot 2026-02-09 12.18.18 PM]

Since iNaturalist is for your personal observations of nature, hopefully a forum user was at the Winter Olympics in 2018, so they can submit the screenshot as an observation. It could make the list of most “faved” observations , which already includes a squirrel observation at number 8 .

[image] AdamWargon: hopefully a forum user was at the Winter Olympics in 2018, so they can submit the screenshot as an observation. I don’t think people should be posting photos they don’t have the rights or explicit permission for as observations

iNat at the Olympics (Winter 2026)

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matthewvosper February 9, 2026, 5:01pm 40

Terrified, I doubt not! I don’t think it was actually struck though. I’m guessing nobody caught it to find out!

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