Forgot my camera and phone and i heard a Gavia immer and seen a Sciurus niger (both of which are not documented in the town i live in on inaturalist) and was wondering if i can post species without audio/video and such
I think you can make casual Observations, without media, just for your own recordkeeping? (They cannot reach RG without media, understandably.)
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You absolutely can. I mostly use the web upload page, but the same is possible on the apps.
If you go to here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload
and click on “+Add”
there is a menu item that says “Observation without Media.” Click that and it will open a little box where you can put in ID, location, date, notes, etc. with no media file. You can do that as many times as you like.
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thats fine, i KNOW what i seen and heard, so thats all that matters atm.
Still shaking after that Loon call. 2nd bird species (identifiable) that i heard but not “touched” the first being Brown-headed Nuthatch in North Carolina
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Yes, you can:
A: Go to iNaturalist.org click upload in the top right and then chose the + Add button in the top left and chose “Observation without media”
B: Create a sketch of the species you saw and include as a “field sketch” which is a seldom used but very useful feature.
Option B would be much useful for your goal of documenting it within iNaturalist as unfortunately if you mark something without media it is automatically casual and useless except for strictly personal record keeping, I hope they update how casual/captive & cultivated works.
However, if you only heard the bird and didn’t have a recording creating a full field note in a notebook with description of the area, time weather, etc. and including a detailed account of what you heard photographing it and uploading it to iNat, it would theoretically be able to be research grade as iNat allows field notes/sketches whereas if you only choose option A or what other people suggested that wouldn’t be possible.
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You can also make scientific drawings of things you observe when you do not have a camera with you.
Kudos for knowing what you see/hear! Unless it is a very familiar species to me, I decidedly do not.
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well the Loon, i was unsure until i got back home and looked up “Loon Sounds”, but i had an inkling it was, and it was near a river no less.
i ended up finding the “old observation” so i used that to add these 2 species
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Thats important for being a birder haha.
Yes just before you sent this message I made a detailed description in a comment.
@anycade3 I highly recommend checking it out so the observations can be research grade.
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the Sciurus niger are somewhat common, at least 2-3 in this one lil area so i can easily try to photograph one of them if i see them again.
and i wish i was a birder but since i moved here i am now learning what species we have in this town lol. I know a few Osage oranges, Juglans nigra (its treehopper as well) Red-stem Storksbill, Blackstripe Topminnows, etc.
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