I finally got an iNat first, this butterfly. I probably have a couple more but that’s if they ever get identified.
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I love when this happens! Congratulations!
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Passed 30 thousands Identifications, Keeping my ratios in check :)
If you have an observation of a plant from Florida or Western Washington State that needs identification, please tag me @dgwdoesthings
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Just double-checked with our devs and this is not how it should work. The number represents the total of active IDs on observations made by other users (regardless of data quality grade). However, it can take up to 5 minutes for that number to reflect the current data, so there may be some lag and double counting if you recently withdrew and/or added ID.
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The number on my profile page is 36,999. The number on my Identifications page is 39,673. That is a difference of 2,674! I only withdrew an ID once today and twice yesterday. Don’t know exactly how many on previous recent days but it was not very many.
This has 37,010 which is a reasonable difference (11) to say it is because of lagging updates. https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_identifier_stats.html?user_id=lappelbaum
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just reached 1000 annotations!!!
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I like reaching big round numbers.
So, what’s next? 60,000 observations or 5,000 species or 275,000 identifications?
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Annotations are feeling left behind, think of the phenology graphs ;~(
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Everything needs attention; I try to spread my work around.
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Congratulations! Seems like it should say on the observation that it is the first.
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Uploaded my 8000th spider observation tonight.It was this lovely wolf spider with babies that came visiting late one night last week! Uhm, with all the spiderlings, it is actually 8000+ spiders! 
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You can see from the Top Identifiers on that obs - just this one makes them the top identifier.
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Someone described a new genera & species of a cricket, and he used one of my observations as a key distribution record in the article!
Mine was the only observation of the new species in the region.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180997201
It makes me really happy when stuff like this happens on iNaturalist, especially when they credit me properly, not like ‘‘a user on iNaturalist’’- which some people actually did in the past.
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Noted, I’m hoping to go up to Rainier before it gets too cold; I’ll be sure to tag you in any plants I come across :)
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Mongabay recently ran a story about bat conservation which used two images of the Painted Bat from iNaturalist users. I know this because I found both pictures on iNat after the Mongabay story got me interested in the species. Both photographers were credited by name.
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I am just getting into Washington botany, my sight id is lacking for some rarer species but I have the flora of mount rainer NP book and flora of PNW key that I am proficient with so as long as it isn’t a gramminoid I’ll be glad to help. If it is a gramminoid, I think sedgequeen on iNat could help you.
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I think you meant to reply to cecileroux rather than me, but I certainly agree with you! LOL!
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Seems like it should say on the observation that it is the first - those were your words.
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There is a project for that, I think.