Two for this week. First, 900 people have identified at least 1 of my observations Observations · iNaturalist. Second, I was granted the role of Curator!
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Congratulations!
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I recently achieved an observing hiking speed of half a mile per hour (averaged over 4 hours). My previous slowest speed was just short of 3/4mph.
I’m so chuffed, I might just run down to the ice cream parlour and celebrate – the next time I have a weekend free to do so.
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I never thought to include that as a milestone since I have no control over it. I just checked mine and I have 1062 identifiers.
Congratulations 
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After a successful trip to the Lechtal, Austria, to find C. hylas, I’m finally over 1000 verifiable taxonomic leaves (i.e. the big “Species” number when looking at my observation list), of which 781 are species level or lower
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Au contraire … posting diverse observations, visiting different regions, tagging identifiers, and having a good reputation are all things under your control
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The neat thing about iNat milestones is that we get to define them for ourselves.
“First iNat observation.”
“Second iNat observation.”
“Third iNat observation.”
…and whatever else you feel like.
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Yesterday’s tour through the forests raised my observation count above 6,000. Currently at 15,000 identifications, and almost 2,000 species - 9 missing.
In my home county, I observed 905 out of 2,662 species observed here, i.e. I am still far away from 1,000.
In a different thread I learned that I can look for species which others observed here, but I did not:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=biodiversitaet-im-rheingau-taunus-kreis&rank=species&subview=grid&unobserved_by_user_id=bernhard_hiller&view=species
Looks like I am ignorant towards larger birds like ducks and geese…
By the way, how can I query the species which I am the sole observer of in a project (or place)?
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I’m in the midst of a big year so I’ve been gassing my observations a bit lately, but a recent trip upload got me over 29k total observations and 7k unique taxa, nearly simultaneously. I suspect I’ll get to 30k in the next few months!
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/muir/75003-2023-is-my-inat-big-year
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Well. I reached 5000 spider observations with this little cutie:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171995399
All good and well, until I read back on this thread and saw that I reached the 4000 milestone three months ago. And those 4000 took 7 years. And then 1000 more in only three months. How on earth? Either the spider population has exploded, or my spider obsession has exploded. Not complaining though!
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Who would blame you? 
Amazing numbers… how many species were you able to observe so far?
Not sure exactly when in the last months (is it even possible to know?) but I reached 1000 regional wild plant species observed, out of ~2400. Largely opportunistic.
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The species number may grow by other people identifying your observations to finer levels. E.g. you could identify at family level, and someone else added the id at species level, and it’s your first observation of that species. So the number may be lagging behind, and keep growing while you’re not observing.
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It is oddly comferting that I am not the only one who spends time on iNat rather than doing homework 
I recently reached 400 species, I feel like I need to find more after reading how many species others have fund, haha. I have been making a lot more insect obs, which is making my lifelist grow a lot, so hopefully I’ll reach 500 by the end of the month 
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133 species. I am mostly happy to ID to genus level only, I don’t examine under a microscope or send in specimens, so I am good with what have been ID’d.
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I hit 10,000 observations on the weekend. Here is my 10,000th observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172147625
7274 (72%) of my observations are plants, 2168 (21%) are fungi and lichen. Observations in my top 5 most observed families:
- 1727 Orchidaceae
- 542 Asteraceae
- 497 Physciaceae
- 361 Parmeliaceae
- 308 Ranunculaceae
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Congrats!!!
150,000 IDs, according to my profile!
And yet so many more to go. (Which is a good thing - it means that more and more people are using iNaturalist.)
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I’ve been iNatting for over 2 years now!
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I hit 10,000 observations this week!
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