LOL No, I meant my 1,000 IDs was not strictly working on rabbits. I did plant IDs too, mostly local.
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My first milestone this year.. I am well on track for my yearly goal of 40.000 IDs, just made my first 10k before march is over. Also I have observed 100 species this year so far with the season just starting (yearly goal is >500)
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Unless the goal includes a count of lifers, it should be easy to repeat every year – just observe the same 500 species each time.
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Yup. I’m participating in a prolonged annual bioblitz where, in order to increase the total number of species found in the whole project, I revisit yearly the species that occur in my area but are unlikely to be found by the other participants. It’s fun to see the same species, even the same individuals, each year and learn how they’re doing. I do like seeing species that are new to me also, of course.
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Well, it has not been to easy for me in the past few years .. it depends a lot on your personal situation how easy it is indeed and for me varies heavily with where I am observing.
For example in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 I exclusively observed in the colombian andean region and the percentage of RG observations until today (as a rough proxy of resolution stage) is at around 30% after up to 3 years sitting on the plattform… even relativly easy IDs seem to take very long (e.g. roadside weeds). Not to count the hard to impossible IDs.
It still feels crazy to me how fast and how many IDs I get here in central Europe .. I expect it will be pretty easy for my to reach both my observation goals (1000 observations of 500 species) as observing is so much easier here everywhere then it has been in the colombian capital where I observed shockingly few critters or plants in my daily life .. the worst place for me to observe so far .. and going to the places of the city where one could observe more diversity was difficult and unsafe, so I had to stop doing that.
Now I already have 16 species of fungi alone (mainly lichen) in Austria, where I am not even since 3 month compared to 21 I got after 3 years of Colombia 
PS: Oh and it helps so much knowing the diversity around you better. I always feel I do not know anything about plants, but boy am I still surprised about how much knowledge there still is about the plants I grew up with and had my botanical excourses about.. it is like meeting old friends and it makes me happy to recognize what I see just as much as finding new organisms.. but plants abroad where just so overwhelmingly unfamiliar to me, only a fraction stood out enough for me to be photographed …
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Not really. I do most of my observing in the vicinity of where I live, and while, yes, there are some species that it would be easy to observe pretty much any time I wish because they are so ubiquitous, there are lots that I might see once and never again for a long time – not necessarily because it is rare, but because seeing it depends on multiple factors (timing, weather conditions, landscape management activities, chance) that all have to come together. In some cases I can increase the likelihood of seeing certain species by intentionally checking around their hosts plants at certain times of year, but there is no guarantee that they will show up. While this particularly applies to flying insects, some annual flowers can also be surprisingly difficult to locate from year to year even if I know where I saw them previously. All of these things are reasons why I do continue to observe species multiple times even if they are already on my life list.
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welcome back! 
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and 35 K IDs !!
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As you guys already know, I’m mainly specialized in IDing birds, so my bird observing stats so far are looking like this:
All my last year’s bird obs added (including birds from previous years)
VS.
My stats at the beginning of April (and year’s not over yet), totalizing almost double obs than the whole 2024’s observations :)
This might be one of my biggest achievements this year for me!
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Just made 1200 obs and 500 species last weekend, and over 35k IDs! (reminding that my goal this year was 1500 obs, 800 species approximate and only 40k IDs 
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And, as a bonus of joy, 13 followers! 
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Nice profile picture too!
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Thanks! It was made by my father while I was feeding gulls at my returning from Thassos island, at sunrise 
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In January of this year I got to go on tour in Colombia for 25 days. I decided to see what I could accomplish iNaturalist-wise if I really put my mind to documenting as many things as I could. It ended up taking me a little more than two months to process all the photos and make IDs on everything I could. I looked mostly at birds, plants, and moths but also saw fish, reptiles, fungi, butterflies, random insects and other stuff. These are my summary stats from the month.
I managed:
- 354 bird species
- 470 plant species
- 524 Lepidopterans
- 820 ‘lifers’ (approximately)
All that is based on iNat’s definition of species. I think I still have roughly 300 observations that I was not able to get to species level.
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whoah that’s impressive
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Finally made 3000 species. Feels somewhat like cheating, because I traveled, but that is just silly. My ID’s lagged behind, I can’t ID anything away from home, but that will pick up again now.
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That’s it, I’ve reached my 2000th species!
Synchronised with my 6000th observation (I just missed the 6000th identification).
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269426358, the Moss Springtail
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269448613, Comatricha nigra.
The only observations of these lifers in the whole country!
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I was just happy to write the 1000th comment on this topic! Thank you all guys again for your support and trust!
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