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…

Recently I was doing plant phenology annotations for Datura stramonium, and I noticed that this plant is one of those species that spreads its seeds by its fruit splitting open. I wondered if there was a name for the husks of the fruit that are left behind on the plant. This led to a quick google se…

I personally don’t know. Maybe move this topic to Feature Requests , though?

Another one that comes to mind is milkweeds

I merged the above three posts into the existing discussion thread for Annotations. On a side note, Feature Requests should be submitted specifically as those (we don’t generally move threads to the Feature Request category) because the template needs to be filled out.

For ferns and poypodies, can we add the annotations for the spores, such as the drop down options go like this: young spore, mature spores, no live spores

@bouteloua yes you can mark them individually, but if someone marks “no flowers or fruits”, then it is not possible to mark that there are flower buds.

A few years later but I would change it back to plant phenology. As ribes2018 mentioned there are other important phenology phases that do not involved flowers, or any reproductive structure. Flowering phenology to me only refers to whether there are open flowers or not, but I know others would co…

[image] brennafarrell: Could pellets be added to Evidence of Presence for birds? I like that. I’d like to see Song added as well. (Useful for crickets and frogs, too!)

Isn’t “song” already implied by the existence of an audio file? I believe other discussions have concluded that “organism” is an appropriate value for the “evidence of presence” for audio observations, even if this organism was heard rather than seen (the organism itself is there, it is just a ques…

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Could pellets be added to Evidence of Presence for birds?

Owl pelllets do not fit in any category of "evidence of presence"

Why does Annotation: Evidence of Presence: "Scat" exists but "Vomit" does not?

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