iNat New Zealand users, how do you have your common name lexicons set up?

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I just spent the last while trying to get my app set up using proper NZ common names for species, and can’t quite work out the best way to achieve this.

Aotearoa (Māori and English) seems the best maintained, but unfortunately lacks common names for any non-NZ species. But if I add these as a second lexicon I get duplicate names on my NZ species.

Some NZ names like banded dotterel and southern black-backed gull seem to be under English (New Zealand Zone, NZ), but then this one is still missing many, such as NZ’s common names for shag species. I tried adding common names for a couple more species to this region, but it wouldn’t let me in certain cases when the name was already in use for another region, and I was a bit worried I was breaking something.

Am I missing the best way to get this set up? If I do try and help set up New Zealand common names is there a preferred way to go about this?

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Welcome to the forum @ashlikesbirds!

I’m not sure if there’s an ideal way to setup common names, but here’s how I setup mine through the inaturalist.nz website (French in there because I’m learning it in my spare time):

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I’m pretty sure the default NZ locale lexicon is one of the Aotearoa ones.

I do get a few double ups with Māori as the second lexicon, but it doesn’t really bother me.

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This works great for me! Thank you so much!