Have any of you gone on iNatting expeditions with other users? If so, how do you determine who gets to observe which organisms?

I mean, we’re all iNatting with each other anyway.

I like to bird with one or more other people because they provide extra eyes to spot things and not just birds. I really like being out with botanists as their search image and knowledge is very different than mine. Diversity of participants increases the diversity in what you will see. It doesn’t…

On the rare occasion I am with someone else anything that is seen is fare game for whomever is with me.

I’ve never hiked with another iNatter, but I have had non-iNat companions spot interesting stuff that I missed!

Twice during a Bioblitz, there was a team plant and a team insect and a team go at your own pace identify whatever you want. It was great! Once during a nature fest which was more laid back and people could identify whatever they wanted.

[image] sambiology: I remind everyone that iNat is not a tool of population assessment but instead of species richness I have to repeat this all the time. I have seen so many people not understanding it and saying ‘‘this must be very common /rare because it’s observed many times / few times o…

Some of the least common things in my area are some of the most common things! People don’t record them because there’s so many and they’re uninteresting. Like yeah, there’s sparrows here, and there, and there, so why record it? But if you see a fantail, that’s neat, and it gets recorded.

When I’m out with new iNatters who aren’t as experienced yet, I try to help them make observations and may refrain from making my own of the same organisms. When I’m with people who know what they’re doing, it gets a bit more competitive and we don’t care as much if everyone observes the same cool c…

Improvise an arena and figth for supremacy. Jokes aside, I do a lot of iNatting with other users and with my students, and we have 2 main rules: 1 - First observer gets the record, although anyone can take pictures; 2 - First observer can pass and allow other person to make the record, usually ba…

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