So in 2017, iNaturalist introduced annotations , which is a way to add metadata to an observation in an iNaturalist-controlled way rather than relying on the free-for-all that is observation fields. We wanted to start out with some basic ones, such as Sex and Life Stage, as well as Plant Phenology (w…

Hi, I was wondering whether it would be possible to add annotations for the reproductive phenology of gymnosperms?

well the call of birds can differentiated as common or calling mate sounds(if differentiated). and we can add another annotation as Very common Common not common but not rare rare. It should depend upon the observer

Yours is the 7th request here for this - hopefully it will be added.

Hi, another request which might be useful. I recently came across this thread ( https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/plant-phenology-annotation-values/11804 ) which discussed the need for standardised definitions of plant fruiting/flowering phenology stages. In addition to wondering whether there has bee…

i think it would be a good idea to add more sex annotations, especially to insects, worker insects in groups like termites, bees, ants, etc; the workers arent technically “female” theyre a third sex that does not reproduce. or even if a species is known to only have one sex like certain species of r…

Has there been any movement on adding a tool to annotate via the uploader? This is something I still wish for almost every time I upload observations, and I have had at least one person ask me how to do it. Sorry if I missed further conversation about this feature request but my search terms in this…

The feature request for that is here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-annotations-when-creating-observations/1513 (and the associated github item is here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2353 )

Thanks, that’s what I was looking for. : )

Great topic. I’d suggest to collect the suggestions in a slightly more structured form - perhaps a table? I have several suggestions, some of them more impactful and in my opinion quite important (e.g. relevant for all insects such as adding “larva” or “pupa” to the Life stage), some of them more ni…

[image] aputamkiejit: the workers arent technically “female” theyre a third sex that does not reproduce. I completely agree that adding more annotation to social insect would be great. Just a note that it is actually quite complex - particularly in termites. Workers have a sex despite not rep…

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