I’ve been on iNat for 5 years now (off and on) and finally hit 1000 obs (now 1005) and 639 species (not all verified). I have a backlog of photos I’ve started uploading so trying to see how many I get for the last 10 years or so of amateur wildlife photography.
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I just reached my 10000th Research Grade Mallard ID!
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Now we know who’s responsible: Operation Dethrone Mallard 2022
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Try as they may, the Mallards won, and have ruled ever after. They should have gone with House Sparrows.
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Hoping to hit 1,000 species at research grade this year (980 currently, 1,200 total)
Planning to hit 8k ID’s this year.
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Speaking of which, I just checked the Top Observers list for mallards: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en-US&place_id=any&preferred_place_id=1&subview=map&taxon_id=6930&view=observers
I’m way down at number 72 - I gotta step up my game!
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I started few months ago with ID and I got into first 5 identifiers of my favorite taxon. I think that I can be satisfied because my focus are small white/gray/brown flatwormy blobs which are hard for documentation ;] Sadly, most of freshwater triclads observations here are not suitable for ID. But I understand why, even my DSLR with macro objective have trouble with some worms. I’m glad that people even pay attention to less attractive species as freshwater triclads.
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My milestone today is 1,000 species at my house. The filter shows 936 species (and counting) and the remaining 64+ are based on my notes - for example, two beetles that are clearly different and only identifiable to family so far. I have recorded most of the cultivated landscape plants that are visited by wild arthropods, although I did not include myself and my two cats in the total.
Some of the highlights:
- 173 species of moths
- 121 types of cultivated plants
- 95 flies
- 91 beetles
- 90 ‘true bugs’ (Hemiptera)
- 87 bees
- 84 wasps
- 59 birds
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Very cool, congrats!
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I got my first first observation of a taxa in iNat.
Pot luck and a lot of help from an expert. Still…
I am trying to pay it forward and do some IDs.
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I just made my 50000th ID!
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I just posted my 4000th observation! Very fittingly it’s a big cluster of orchids I stumbled upon in the forest tonight:
Out of the 4000 observations 3709 are plants and out of those 800 are orchids.
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Double whammy, I just hit 6000 observations and recently hit 5000 ID’s, not bad considering I mostly ID Australian wasps :)
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Not sure if this is a number to be proud of but I noticed that I’ve reached 6666 observations now.
I’ll probably ruin that later today by uploading more stuff…
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I just reached my (adjusted) goal of a total of 2500 species observed. And fitting enough, the last two species that pushed it over the edge where some beautyful spiders. 
23 species to go to hit my yearly goal of observing at leats 500 species per year
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Beautiful kite spiders!
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I hit 1,000 days observation streak a few days back, I’m honestly surprised myself that I made it this long!
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Wow! I think I never made it much more then 10 in a row :-D
Beautyful - absolutely yes! Kite spider, no. These are a different genus (Gasteracantha)
…the ones I observed are Micrathena, a solely american genus :-)
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I just reached 19 000 ID’s – not bad for someone like me, although many of them are just bumps up from Plantae… I try to maintain my ratio of 1 ob, 2 ID, so now I need to observe more!
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