Hello! :) I popped in yesterday after being away for a short while and was absolutely floored by the frosted phoenix post. The rediscovery of a presumed-extinct species after 65 years surely makes this among the most legendary iNat observations. If there were an iNaturalist hall of fame, I can pictu…

I’ll be the one to say it, Gerald (Warning, the link may cause your device to experience extreme lag).

I’m afraid of touching ANY link having to do with Gerald. I looked briefly at that post once and gratefully escaped unharmed!

There are a lot of first obs of a species, but my personal favorite has to be this Mangora Baii . Probably some bias there because I love Mangora and I was involved with that obs but still a very cool observation.

I’d be pretty happy if I never heard about “Gerald” ever again. depending on what you mean, OP, I could lean toward the small-scale or bigger things. I don’t think any of mine are really all-time hall of famers, but I consider myself lucky to have seen a variety of seldom observed phytoparasitic fu…

Well, of the observations I’ve interacted with, this is the one that took the longest to vindicate the original observer’s ID. The observer “stuck to their guns,” as the expression goes, even in the face of going maverick, and now it has paid off: Turtle-Doves and Collared-Doves (Genus Streptopelia)…

Not sure if this one would count but it has a funny story along with it. While on a fieldtrip in 2012 one of our vehicles was having issues so we took it to a shop and were hanging out at a park in South Tahoe while waiting for it to be fixed. While there a small beetle landed on me, it was crawling…

Almost everything in https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/first-known-photographs-of-living-specimens is worthy, in my opinion.

I would say all observations that have 25+ favorites belong in the Inat Hall of Fame as those are typical “famous” observations and there are not many of them. Also most Observations of the Week and other rare finds that have 1 or 2 observations would go in. I would say 1 in every 50000-250000 obser…

From my personal collection, I’m happy with https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/384993 , taken before this single-site endemic species was described. But there are probably quite a few more observations of that sort on iNat than people realize.

iNaturalist Hall of Fame worthy observations

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DianaStuder April 2, 2024, 6:39pm 3

Gerald comes with a health warning
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unfollowed-observation-keeps-showing-up-on-home-dashboard/49804/12

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