Sometime recently I passed 10,000 IDs.
Mostly plants. Mostly in New England (U.S.) Mostly IDed to genus or species.
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I am finally at the first place by the species observed in New Zealand!
Happy to achieve this at 18 year old, after six years of using iNat. I’ve been pretty conservative with my IDs too.
Also got a bunch of first-ever in-situ image of many species, four new-to-the-country records,123 iNat firsts (more to be uploaded), 773 curator actions made, and so close from getting to 5000 species!
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Slipped right past 55,000 IDs today without even noticing
I’ve already done more than 10,000 IDs this year. Most have been for observations in Family Leporidae (hares and rabbits).
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I’m just waiting for you to come north and tackle Eastern vs. New England Cottontails. ;-)
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lol this is why I don’t TOUCH rabbits in our neck of the woods XD
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Sorry, I’m avoiding doing species level IDs where I have to differentiate Eastern vs New England or Appalachian. I’ve got Eastern vs Swamp vs Marsh well sorted in my brain. I’m dipping my toes into Desert vs Brush where they don’t overlap with any other cottontail species. I can also ID individual Desert cottontails with extremely long ears. Those individuals get IDed as jackrabbits a lot. However I have plenty Eastern vs Swamp vs Marsh and Sylvilagus vs Lepus vs Oryctolagus to keep me busy.
My current bunny ID stats
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Ditto.
You are smart to avoid such species-level IDs. I have thought about researching thoroughly where New England Cottontails do and do not occur nowadays, but the thought of wading through almost 5,000 Needs ID Rabbits and Hares observations in New England is daunting, to say the least. I suppose the easy place to start would be observations sitting at genus-level Cottontails for years and (assuming they are correct) agreeing with that ID and marking them As Good As Can Be.
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I recently reached 50 butterfly species at our farm. https://foresthut.in/2025/07/22/celebrating-50-butterfly-species/.
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Seems like a fun challenge! 
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These bunnies look the exact same to me! How can you ID them?
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Shape of head, shape of ears, and various fur markings/colors. One of these days I’m going to make a journal post explaining it.
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Good that I have only one of them here, the Indian Hare, and I haven’t photographed it yet.
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Only have Eastern Cottontail and Swamp Rabbit (and occasionally abandoned Domestic Rabbits) where I live but I’m having fun learning the others in US and Canada.
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So I just checked, and those are the three on the North Carolina Coastal Plain.
I recently reached 2,000 observations on INat. Not a particularly huge milestone, but since I just joined in March, I feel pretty great :)
I also reached 590 species!
And the most exciting part for me is that I have reached three followers!!
INat is probably the only form of social media where that will happen :)
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Luckily Swamp and Marsh ranges don’t overlap in North Carolina. They are harder to tell apart from each other than either is to tell apart from Eastern.
PS Just noticed there aren’t any observations for Swamp Rabbit in North Carolina yet
PPS Swamp rabbit range doesn’t seem to go into the Atlantic Coastal Plain. If it does, just barely in Georgia and South Carolina. Not at all in coastal plain of North Carolina.
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Well then someone must have corrected the one that was there last night.
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