I recently hit 850 obs!
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I just crossed 10,000 identifications today! I’ve learned so much already, and I still have so much more to learn.
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I also recently passed 8,200 IDs for others. And as @gmzelle said, I still have SO much more to learn!
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I have been doing A LOT of IDing today for my local park and am now at…
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Someone recently corrected me when I mentioned this number, saying that if you only count those who have posted in the past month (2 months?) it is in the hundred thousands, not millions. Evidently many people sign on, make fewer than 10 observations and then never sign on again. Since so many observations are seasonal, I’m not sure what would be a reasonable time lapse before you stop counting someone as an observer.
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Yesterday I broke 10350!
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Several people on this thread have mentioned projects on their own properties. Since most of my observations are in my yard, I tried to set up a project for that. It’s not working. Are there directions somewhere?
I set up a project that shows up on the project list on my observations page, but when I go back to observations that I have previously made, it does not show up under the list of projects so there is no way for me to add the observations. The project dates were listed as any.
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A common problem is that observations will not appear in a project if any part of the accuracy circle falls outside the perimeter of the project place.
But I think you may need to check whether the place you selected for the project is correct. In your profile you mention that you are in Oregon, but the place of your project seems to be somewhere in India.
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Did you make a traditional project or a collection project? I think it’s easier to do a traditional project for a small property because you don’t have to worry about making a place or your accuracy circles being outside the place like you have to for collection projects. If you’re doing a traditional project you can also obscure your observations so people don’t know exactly where your house is.
This is my traditional project for my and my neighbor’s properties. I have it set up to where anyone can join the project but only curators can add observations. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/appelbaum-and-willis-property-survey
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https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/elephant-s-eye-on-false-bay
Mine is also traditional, only I can add obs, and I used the standard place for my suburb.
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mysterious: why does your project have 142 species under “Stats” and 120 species under “most species?”
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120 has a filter set to Rank species low
so 142 includes ‘other’ ranks (it has no filter set)
iNat mystifies me sometimes.
but then @lappelbaum is 935 sp vs 802 if you add up the 4 observers
??
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I don’t think that really matters, the point is that over 3 million people have at some point logged on and made at least one observation, and that’s what counts. Outreach works!
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It’s only 778 if limited to species level taxon. Can’t just add the numbers together since there is overlap (multiple people recording the same species).
It will be more soon. Sara and I are still adding obs from our mothing night last week.
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Thank you. So what is in the gap - ssp and var ?
Another traditional project.
Using an iNat place this time.
Limited to 3 people (so far)
We jumped quickly to 500 sp, now 750 https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fynbos-rambles-on-the-cape-peninsula (as iNat displays it with the ssp and var included as ‘species’ which is disconcerting when you look into it)
I passed 9000 observations today. :)
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The number under most species is when you only look at observations IDed to species level. The number under stats is all observations. It counts “leaves”, as iNat calls them. I have a lot of things that are only able to be IDed to genus.
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Still disconcerting that iNat calls BOTH totals species.
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Well the way the leaves work, there are at least that many species we just don’t know what they are called. I don’t see why this is disconcerting. I like it because for things that can’t be IDed to species from photographs (only to genus), it still counts towards my species total.
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