I still quietly hope I can reach the 3000 this year, but I think it will not work out anymore (unless a super tropic-firm identifier starts to go through my 70% needs ID observations from this year maybe, that for sure also have a lot of new species in there).
But I am about to hit 600 species for this year, which tops my yearly minimum goal by 100. Now off to the next 100 and maybe topping my personal yearly highscore of 747 in 2020 (aaah, good old times when Corona gave me a lot of time with my camera :-))
you can go searching some fungi - quite a lot around at the moment.
And I’d say many of your lichen observations are IDable - you just need to convince an expert to have a look at them :)
Thank you both for having look at my observations.
Yeah, the needs ID is really crazy high for this year. The only other year below 50% RG was in 2019, when I also only uploaded observations from South America (the IDer situation is difficult here, especially for creepy crawlies, but also for plants)… at least it crawled up to 48%RG over time, so probably more of this years observations will also at some point get identified… when I reach the 50% for 2022 it will be another milestone I will let you know of, I guess ;-D
I like lichen, but I barely photograph them or fungi anymore, as they almost never get anywhere especially interesting.
I just quickly checked your first page of latest uploads and mine and it indeed looks very different… 10 of my last observations reached RG, 3 of them feral dogs g
Nowhere near such a milestone myself as a lot of my observations are casual, but currently at 766 observations (554 of which are wild) across 513 (332 wild) species. Hoping to get to 1k total observations before the end of the year, maybe 1k wild later on. Species count is also something I’d like to pursue, maybe I could get to 500 wild species by the end of next year? We’ll see.
Just realized my road trip down south last week pushed me to over 1000 orchid observations and to almost 100 species. To reach 100 could be a while - either someone comes along and can id my genus level spiranthes or dactylorhiza to species I haven’t seen yet, or else seeing two more will have to wait until late next year - I’m hoping to find both a Chamorchis alpina and a Spiranthes spiralis if my 2023 Europe visit goes ahead as planned.
If you go to Green Swamp Preserve in North Carolina you can get 5 more orchid species you are missing. It’s a lot closer than Europe and has 3 globally rare species of orchids.
Thanks! I think Green Swamp Preserve actually has 10 (native) orchid species I haven’t seen! I was in North Carolina for the first time last week and almost stopped there, but wasn’t sure how much would be in bloom right now. I’d love to go there in spring one day, but never so easy to travel then. (And I’ll not be in Europe to see orchids, I just know the above two species should both still be blooming at the time I’ll already be there next year).
Hah, if you had stopped we could have run into each other. I just visited the Green Swamp Preserve last weekend. Not much in bloom at this time of year but really enjoyed the cooler fall temperatures and the fact that I saw only one mosquito. I’ve been there in late summer when it’s miserably hot and humid and full of blood-suckers. I have yet to make it there in spring during peak bloom time.
Quick look at my lifelist for Cape Peninsula. I have … 4654 unobserved species.
Some I can pick out from my archived photos.
Just orchids - 7 seen and only 67 to go.
If you come here to the Big Thicket of east Texas I can help you add Platanthera chapmanii, Platanthera nivea, and Spiranthes praecox.
There is also Platanthera integra, Spiranthes brevilabris, Spiranthes laciniata, and Calopogon oklahomensis but I’m not a person that can help with those (but I know people).
I’m getting close to observing 5000 species, but with all the unided observations I expect real number of verifiable species being higher than that, wonder how many years it will take to get 10k, side-eyeing @silversea_starsong 18k that will be half bigger by that time!
I just unkowingly uploaded my 7,777th observation, a ratty-looking late perennial saltmarsh aster https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139689522 . I try identify as much as I upload and have gotten quite ahead with about 3,000 more IDs than observations, and with winter coming I’m sure that gap will be widened even more. Neither totals are anything in comparison to others here though!
I must be slacking! You joined only a few months before me and I have less than 5,000 observations, although I hope to pass that milestone while uploading this last year’s backlog.
