For folks who also broadly identify unknowns, what are the top three interesting things you’ve learned while doing so? Mine: It’s new users’ favorite taxon Spiders are not insects (see Taxonomy tabs) Snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) aren’t common in Southern California Looking at forum guidelines , …

Since it’s possible for most people to do at least a very high level ID on most observations in the world, I feel like identifying Unknowns in places you haven’t been to or don’t visit often is in some ways a bit like traveling to those locations. you get a little peek at what lives there (and who, …

Placeholder … wait wait, what did it say? Sigh. My reviewed is many, many dead fish and ‘edible’ marine life. Unsee.

[image] DianaStuder: Placeholder … wait wait, what did it say? Sigh. …wait, what? I have learned (in keeping with the theme) that if I immediately withdraw my ID, the placeholder returns (before someone else comes along and IDs) [image] [image] [image]

But sometimes sasquatch stays out of sight. It is unpredictable. Click click click double sigh.

One needs to be fast to catch a Sasquatch…

[image] DianaStuder: sometimes sasquatch stays out of sight. Waiting for the phylogenetic tree of Sasquatch, Yeti, and the Florida Skunk Ape.

This is why all the photos are grainy: it takes good (heavy) gear to take a quality photo, so because of its speed, only folks who have light gear can keep up the chase and capture any observations whatsoever.

Someone just needs to whistle or hum some sasquatch noises and we are duty bound to believe it.

[image] vreinkymov: Spiders are not insects I kind of knew, but not enough to avoid the mistake. :grimacing: I have discovered that IDing is a way of learning. I recognize regional experts and high volume IDers Unknowns are a bit addictive, especially my local ones. I get excited when I se…

I still vividly remember my first “unknown” identification session. I had just discovered all the filters for the Identify window and how to limit to a location and unknowns only, and got really excited and thought to myself: “Well, I should be able to do iNat a service and clear all the unknowns fo…

Informative Unknowns

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jeanphilippeb February 11, 2023, 10:18pm 79

The opposite would be:

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