I’m still working on my huge backlog of things to add to iNat, but I figured I’ve done enough for today. And then I saw that I hit 1,000 species without going over. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&place_id=any&user_id=lappelbaum&view=species (okay, so it’s 1,002 if I add cas…

Today i hit 300 species observed (with 1179 observations). https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=davidak&view=species

Have cleared the CNC25 residue for Africa. Ready for CNC26.

That is quite the accomplishment - congratulations!

5 months later, I pushed the bottom 2 over 600. Hard work :grin: [image]

and each one hugely appreciated by future identifiers, and observers !

Passed 60,000 IDs yesterday!! If I keep going the way I am, I should have 100,000 by the end of this year or early next year. [image]

@isopodguy is a tough act to follow, but I finally cracked 20,000 IDs. (And made sure I caught the moment) [IMG_0030] I usually ID for an hour or two a day, but during the recent New England/New York “ID-athon” I kind of went crazy. I bet you can tell when that was, from this graph: [IMG_0007] …

I’ve ID’d for over 5600 observers. It doesn’t quite seem possible! [5600 observers] (I have a bad habit of IDing in certain areas, rather than picking a taxon, so I have a lot of repeat customers. But I’ve been trying to get out of my comfort zone at least a little bit.)

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lynnharper March 18, 2026, 5:34pm 1586

Wow! Curators are the unsung heroes of iNaturalist; without them, the whole system wouldn’t work. Thank you for your hard work!

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