I passed 20,000 IDs recently without noticing :)
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After a night of mothing, the project for Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve has now surpassed 10,000 observations. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/watson-preserve
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Presuming that you start your obs with your own ID, then the ratio to aim at is 1.25 to allow for the difficult obs that need discussion to achieve more than ‘2 agree’ for CID. Not so far to go. Thank you!
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I travelled along the Alps for a bit in July, around the Italian/French/Swiss border, to see a new orchid species. Now that I added my pictures to inat, I noticed this brought me to 200 species of orchid (actually 201 now, since inat also counts hybrids of which I must have added one recently). I’ve also seen several species not on inat yet so those show up as genus or another species right now, so I guess, with various taxonomical fluctuations and counting hybrids/variations or not, I definitely have seen around 200 true species of wild orchids now!
Many people on inat have seen more, someone has 750 species, and I barely make it to the top 50 observers of orchids, which is a bit reassuring… there’s much crazier orchid persons out there than myself… 
My first wild orchid species (knowingly at least) was a Galearis spectabilis, on May 2, 2020 in Ohio. My most recent one was a Nigritella corneliana, on July 19, 2025 in France. My favorite observation is probably my first Epipogium aphyllum, just because of the incredible moment when I spotted one, after hours of searching alone in a dark forest… but seeing each species for the first time meant a moment of absolute happiness for me, worth the 1000ds of miles of driving and hiking!
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40k IDs!
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I just realized I reached two of my 3 yearly goals with my most recent uploads
So, for a next step I twisted it a bit to get 1000 observations/500 species in Austria, which will be about 150 observations and 70 species more.. it will be a little challenge, as we are moving on to the next country in a few days. Let’s see if I can manage
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What? How?
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I have no idea. Probably some kind of glitch on the app.
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Hmm… how very interesting.
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Reached 10.000 improving this year.
https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/rudolphous
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How did you get to that??
How to do this? Login daily and improve 46 observations on average and generate a screenshot with the link earlier shared (https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/replace_with_your_usename). That page shows by the way only a generate button if you log in on inaturalist.
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Oh I didn’t know you could do that, okay thanks. But whenever I click on it, it says “Stats for this year have not been generated.”