Thanks to the 333 people that helped my this year so far to ID my observations 
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Notice that I’ve synchronised my number of observations and identifications!
However, I have noticed a difference between the number of identifications I have on the Android application and on the website :
It’s not very serious, but if anyone has an explanation…
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I had the great privilege to travel to South Africa for the last two weeks, which lead to me reaching three (for me) big milestones:
- 5000 observations
- 1000 species (ID’d to species level at least once) of vascular plants
- 1000 people having added IDs on my observations - Huge thank you to everyone who is among those 1000 (now 1053)!
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I enjoyed seeing what you saw
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In my home state, 12,000 total observations, 2,500 species, and 90,000 identifications. 750 of those 2,500 species have been seen on my moth sheet/UV lamp setup. As a collective, the state passed 1 million total observations and is nearing 1 million verifiable observations.
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Happy fifth iNativersary to me! To properly celebrate the occasion, I’ve managed to upload my 10,000th observation. 
Next milestone goal: 100,000 IDs, I guess.
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Brava! Thank you for all your help. I think of you each time I work thru another bunch of Kingdom Disagreements - that is one finely crafted URL with filters that I do remember my source.
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I just added my 10000th ID. (I missed the precise number, but just imagine there’s a 0 there instead of a 3) :D
Next goal: Either 1000 annotations, 2000 species, or making my number of identifications double that of my observations.
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I hit 1020 Obs recently!
And 14000 IDs!
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So, by the dashboard stats, I just passed 5000 IDs.
The number in my profile board needs to catch up, though. 
(Not pictured: 6800+ annotations.)
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Congrats! I try to think of the various numbers one can find for the number of IDs one has made to reflect the complexity of biodiversity. Just when you think you know something and have put it in a nice neat human box, the real world surprises you and reminds you yet again of the fuzziness of real species.
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The numbers in this thread are stunning and inspiring!
Yesterday I celebrated a personal milestone as my ID count exceeded my observations (458). For years I assumed I was qualified to upload photos, but not to suggest identifications. Realizing that I can help ID, learn, and have more fun looking at other people’s observations has transformed my experience as part of this community. Thank you all!
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I went into the project and scrolled down to the bottom and found the place in India you referred to. I moved the map so that it showed my home, but there is no way that I have discovered that I can now select that area as my project area. It shows the number of my house, but no way to define the area. I’m sure I must be overlooking what I need somehow. Can you enlighten me?
Welcome to the Identifier Side!
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I believe it is only possible to select areas that have been entered as “places” on iNat for use in projects – i.e., you can’t select a free-form area on the map (as is possible, e.g. in “Explore”). I assume you tried to use your address as an inclusion criterion when you created the project? If it didn’t find your address, it will have selected the best match it could find, which apparently happens to be in India.
There should be a tutorial somewhere on how to create places. But you might also want to consider whether you want to reveal your exact street address publicly on the internet.
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I think “Casual” grade observations don’t show up in the number below the profile picture, but they do on the ID page, right?
I’m not sure about this, but that’s the only explanation I can come up with… 
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No, my number of observations IDed for others (including casual) is the same as the number on the profile board. I think that the number on the “Your Idenitifications” is number of IDs rather than number of obs IDed. Meaning that if you add an ID then withdraw it and add an new one, it counts as one on your profile board but two on the count on “Your Identifications” page.
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Finally hit 30k IDs!! Annotations number is a little low but I’m working on it. Going through salmonid IDs has been a ton of fun and very rewarding. Unsure which fish taxon to learn and go through next; I’m thinking about doing flying fishes but any advice is appreciated. If there is a fish taxon that could use some ID’s let me know and I’d love to try to master it!!
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Well, I didn’t realise this would take such little time when I posted last, but I’ve reached my goal of having twice as many IDs as observations. :D
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Awesome! You’ve certainly given me a new goal to shoot for.
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