I really enjoy reading this thread! So many cool milestones… and shares. I also found a few neat links in here like that little tool that told me tomorrow is my 3000th day on iNat!! I guess I have a milestone to celebrate after all!
Like so many others, I too keep a backyard list going and have hit 1150 species at the house. A couple of years ago, I set a goal to try and make one observation a day and I recently crossed over the 1000 day point of doing just that… not every observation meets the qualifications for an official streak, so it’s an unofficial milestone. lol
Thanks for sharing everyone!
ps. Here are a couple of neat links I discovered browsing here for streaks and stats.
I just hit the same milestone… my 8000th is a Bromelicaidae from an amazing hike through fairytail-land last sunday :-) (probably Tillandsia biflora, but I let the plant experts decide, as plants are not my strongsuit)
Just hit another small milestone… 10 iNat-firsts for Colombia with the recent new addition of Aeneolamia flavilatera, which was the second on iNat in total … the firsts are the number I love the most actually… love seeing the little red dots popping up on the map
almost certain to hit 10k observations this weekend; hoping to get up to Hagerman NWR but even if I don’t I’m going to the greenbelt by my house or by our favorite restaurant. but probably won’t hit 10k ID’s this year. I’m at 8k but man there’s so many herps to go through and I’m only really good at slices of them
If you can’t find herps you can ID, you could help out with the high level sorting. Check out the Identi-Friday thread for things you can help out with.
Just hit 65k (with casuals, but will be only veryfiable when I’m done uploading), it’s also a big leap from the last year totals, already +2k observations to what I observed in 2021, still a lot to go to catch with top observers this year.
I don’t have the number, but I just finished adding all my old BAMONA moth obs to iNat. I’ve only been using iNat for a couple of years and previously uploaded everything to BAMONA. It feels like a milestone to get that done! And, what a learning experience to review all those moths.
I just managed to upload 2000 observations (in terms of iNat it is my most busy year so far :-) ) and also cracked the 700 species for 2022. I don´t expect much more to come this year on the observer part… maybe another milestone for the ider-section
I just realized that yesterday was my fourth anniversary of joining iNaturalist. In those four years, I’ve made almost 35,000 observations of 3,556 species. I’ve made a little over 88,000 identifications. Once, I’ve even added an observation that turned out to be the first of that species on iNat.
I am so happy that iNaturalist exists and I found it!
That are pretty amazing numbers! I will for sure not have that many observations on my 4 year anniversary (in about 1 year and a bit), but I will aim for the species count :-)
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