Is there a way for users to view a list of a users species observations in order of them having least amount of observations on iNaturalist?
Some species are rarely ever recorded on iNaturalist. I recently uploaded an observation of a species that has only 97 observations on the website. I wondered how many other under-observed species have I posted observations of.
Is there an existing feature to let us see this? Or is it not possible? I’d love to be able to see all my rarest observations all lined up in a row with the amount of global observations visible next to them.
I was literally just going over my least observed finds today and yesterday. didn’t know there was any quicker ways so i’ll have to check some of these links out
Those are fun links! Looks like identifying tiny brown moths under the microscope is one of the ways to go for getting infrequently-observed taxa… I’ve got about 100 species from the USA that no one else has uploaded yet. lol
Thanks for the link to that tool! I like that it doesn’t require an export and re-sort, and that it includes an icon showing the general category of organism in my infrequently observed taxa…in case I don’t recognize the name. I have 28 (18 plants, 10 arthropods) for which I’m the only observer so far: https://elias.pschernig.com/wildflower/leastobserved.html?user=suecar
I just tried it out. https://elias.pschernig.com/wildflower/leastobserved.html?user=xris
There’s a slight inconsistency. The list shows all observations, including casual, e.g.: garden plants. The links in the list only show Verifiable observations. Helpful, nonetheless!
That’s because the links go the iNat default explore setting of verifiable + whatever your location is. I find to make the numbers match I have to uncheck verifiable under filters and take out the default location to get worldwide observations.
I tried this link. What I find useful is that you can restrict your search to “research grade” observations.
I wanted to see if there is a metric I could use to define one’s contribution to the knowledge of rarely observed species. If you download the csv from this page, you can format it as a table and add a calculated variable for each species line: the ratio of observations from a particular observer/ total observations for that species. For instance 1 observation for a species with a total of 5 observations provides a score of 0.2.
The sum of the scores column provides an evaluation of one’s overall contribution to the list of documented species in iNat. This is relevant only for the taxonomic aspect, and of course iNaturalist provides much more than that (geographic range, seasonality, …) based on repeated observations of the more common species.
Oh, interesting, I don’t have any non-verifiable observations myself so would never have noticed - it should be fixed now. I left the default to show all observations, but added a new filter called “only wild” (which sets captive=false on the API calls) and should get the same links as before, if I understand what “verifiable” and “captive” mean on inat.
While I was changing it I also added “only RG” and “only native” filters.
