Sorry. I should have read more carefully.
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Itās a nice idea you have here, letās see if it can motivate someone. I am personally not very creative when it comes to projects and admire people who come up with helpful projects that seem so obvious once they are there.
There is for example a project collecting ID tips which have been mentioned in the comments and I use it all the time. I also admire a project called Spiders undersides which is sooo useful and makes so much sense. Quite a bunch of spiders can be IDed by the dorsal side to species or at least genus, but the knowledge of their ventral appearance is buried, making IDs harder if only the ventral side is shown. Quite a bunch of spiders can be IDed further from ventral view, once you know.. I love and use both projects, but it is extremely unlikely that I would have ever come up with either of those
Edit: The yellow label projects definately are in this category as well!
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2025 created projects as inspiration (Iām assuming only new projects qualify?)
Immature Taxodiomyia Galls
Compiling observations of Taxodiomyia galls that are early in development. Only including the ones that are erect on the leaves: T. cupressi and several undescribed species. Undescribed species are tracked using observation field Gallformers Code. This journal post has links to Gallformers.org page, all observations, and project only observations for each species included in the project.
Super Chill Buns
A repository for photos of wild rabbits and hares that are super relaxed and sprawled or flopped out. I made this one purely for entertainment.
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Just for sharing the trick: there are 3 projects named Jardin Botanique Villa Thuret (Villa Thuret botanical garden, in Antibes, southeastern France): one collection project based on location, one traditional project for observations with geoprivacy (in case the species is globally endangered) and one umbrella project to merge the two other ones. Because it is a botanical garden, there is no problem letting know that an endangered species is cultivated there.
I know iNat is not for cultivated plants, but there are some taxa that have only one observation and this observation is in a botanical garden. Sometimes the only way to show iNatters what this species looks likes. I consider observations in botanical gardens as useful for iNat.
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Brown Honeyeaters of the Darwin area Ā· iNaturalist Iām trying to determine if the Melville subspecies makes it into Darwin (it should be just the L.i.indistincta and basically there should be no black gapes during the non-breeding season. There is an excellent Field Naturalist group for the NT on FB and we had an interesting discussion around this with one long time birder feeling that there are black gaped birds around during the Wet Season.
Australian Bush Medicine Ā· iNaturalist I work in health and tend to collect books on traditional remedies. So Iāve added the species known to be of use to this project. There are so many useful plants around.
Bush Tucker (Edible wild food of Australia) Ā· iNaturalist Similarly you need never go hungry in Australia. Although Iām not sure how keen I am at picking off the Giant Grasshoppers that live in my garden.
Darwin #cityofbirds Ā· iNaturalist I often start here when IDing and annotating our local birds. It is also somewhere to see where our local birds can be seen.
Postcode 0810, NT, Australia Ā· iNaturalist The biodiversity of my postcode
Culturally Modified Trees in Australia Ā· iNaturalist This is one that I have to add observations to manually but every now and then I hear of an area that has CMTs.
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I donāt have any new ideas to implement but I thought I would share something that I find very useful about projects on iNat - that one can use them as additional URL filters to perform more complex logic. Here are some examples that I make use of:
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Combining a project that tracks a set of small parks and open spaces with a larger urban area that encompasses them all. By asking for observations within the large place but not in the project I can peek to find areas of interest that I need to add or other interesting spots like road verges without filling the project with observations from gardens etc.
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In the Cape there is a unique vegetation type that occurs on the higher mountain peaks, around 1700m and up. These areas are spread out all over but are individually not very extensive. I created a project which contains one place for everything above 1700m. Normally one can either draw a circle or ask for observations in a specific place but not both. On the other hand adding hundreds of small places for each peak would be impractical. By using the project you can circumvent this limitation, in this case effectively being able to draw a circle around a mountain and only get observations above a certain elevation (i.e. in the project). In principle this could be done for other altitudinal bands as long as the area is not too big.
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A link for our āAlpinesā ?
Does anyone know if there is a traditional project for ātreesā? Iām seeing several collection projects which is not helpful if you donāt know what species you have. There are traditional projects for other non-taxonomic groups like lichens, galls, and entomopathogenic fungi.
There are 5,595 results for a search of ātreesā in projects. I donāt really want to go through all of those to look. It would be nice if I could search just traditional projects instead of all projects.
Trees of southern Africa (ID)
Unknown / Trees of southern Africa (1)
Unknown / Trees of southern Africa (2)
Projects (1) and (2) are based on a list of taxa (taxa at different ranks, known to contain only trees) derived from the content of this list at the time these projects were created. They are populated by the software bot that populates all the āyellow labelā projects.
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We have one for Southern Africa (despite the name it can be used across Africa) - not convinced it makes much difference to getting an ID - but @mentioning tree people works
Sorry - typing together
I donāt know any generic ātreeā people to ask. I know people who are interested in certain groups of trees, but if I donāt know what tree it is, how do I know who to ask?
As I ID I have learnt who are the handful of people I can ask here. Who steps forward for a tree, who leaves helpful comments - why it is this sp not that one, whose profile says I love trees! Trees are hard - unless they have flowers. Or fruit. Or cones.
Oh, wait I did think of one person that I tag sometimes. Iād hate to bombard them with tags so Iāll have to come up with some other people.
If was to make a project, it should be called āTrees That Need IDsā.
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As long as these are you own, they are qualified.
Iāve been sorting through plant observations stuck at high levels (phylum or class) and the number of observations of trees or their parts (leaves, twigs, etc) make up a goodly portion of them, so a project of ātrees needing IDā would be a useful place to put them so tree people can easily find them.
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Okay, I made it 
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-that-need-ids
and added some observations from around the world
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That project already has 1700+ obs added to it in 4 days? That is approximately 4250 obs. added per day - congrats!
That was a very nice idea.
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@jeanphilippeb helped me to pull in observations from some smaller tree projects and from the Tree observation field https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/34
Itās going to me much slower after all that since I donāt have very many members yet (6)
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You can make a copypasta comment for obs of trees - your tree needs an ID and we have this project, come ā¦ Plenty of people love trees, observe trees. But finding the right project can be difficult, or outright impossible. Or if you write a journal post - you can link to that in a comment or relevant obs.
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