Hi everyone! I have updated the progress links to be limited to the date range we specified (up until 2023-05-01). Chose to do this, otherwise if we include up until present date, the numbers might start going up again… Anyway here is a duplicate of the post in the project:
Here are the current numbers as well as links to check them yourself!
Number of observations in thousands (k) for Africa excluding the Cape (counts including Cape in brackets)
You can also @mention me. I have trod on a few toes, and have a very short list of people to skirt around and approach with caution.
If the comment crosses the line, flag it!
Was hiking this morning. 170 notifications overnight.
I spent Thursday afternoon through Monday morning away from my laptop, learning about bryophytes and iNaturalizing an area new to me. I came home to 350 notifications. I started uploading my new observations and woke up Tuesday morning to another 150 notifications. I’m almost finished uploading my own observations and the notifications keep rolling in. So many of them are African Unknowns from the 2022 City Nature Challenge that I identified all the way to Vascular Plants (I’m laughing at myself here) - that is so great!
Sorry @DianaStuder I didn’t mean to have this as a reply to just you, but I was using the Kingdom Disagreement in Africa link on your #6 when I was doing these IDs so I am hoping this links to the post :)
Most African iNatters who ever photographed or id’ed a mushroom = fungi are probably getting a chunk of their current notification from me about their Fungi. I’m still doing this as I adapt to a computer malfunction and basically “warm up” for the actual Plantae challenge. Mute me through Friday probably, if you hate it.
I moved all the plants sitting at kingdom level in South Sudan down to class. Before you think that’s an accomplishment, realize that there were only two qualifying observations, fairly easy to bump down to dicot. But it’s still a country improved!
Every bit helps! Related to your accomplishment, a No Country Left Behind mode would be fun to see!
Anyone have a checklist of countries included in iNat’s definition of “Africa (continent)”? We could see which countries might be “completed” during this month. That would need a date limit though, so we could use @koos_the_readerset of links above, just put in a country and check the count.
Actually, maybe I should look through those “Dicots.” Because many Araceae do not have the stereotypical grass-like or amaryllis-like leaves, they tend to get misidentified as “Dicots.”
I’ve now reviewed (scrolled through) about 8000 African unknowns and dragged a few animals out of the pile. I even recognised 2 (in words: two) plants from Spain that I could bring to species. :-)
@jasonhernandez74@lotteryd As I am looking at the Flora of Africa, I learned I can’t just put dicot because many of them are actually monocots so some of them I have been putting Flowering Plants - Subphylum Angiospermae
@lotteryd Also, all those Fungi really are cool! Thank you for sharing
Found a list of African countries on Wikipedia. Not sure if this is the iNaturalist recognized ones, but I used the links from @koos_the_reader to create this list of specific countries for a No Country Left Behind Mode ( @lotteryd )
@zzravizz was a bit faster than me :) but here is latest update with pictures
1800 observations have already been moved out of Plantae (Kingdom) and Unknown! Even with these new ones being added to the pile, the number of observations waiting at Species level has gone down by almost a thousand!
Keep up the good work everyone :)
Number of observations in thousands for Africa excluding the Cape (counts including Cape in brackets).
Most recent counts shown as change relative to baseline (02-08-2023)
02-08-2023
04-08-2023
Not in Flora of Africa
Plantae at Kingdom
20.7 (28.5)
-0.8 (-1.3)
Unknowns
10.5 (15.1)
-0.3 (-0.5)
Flora of Africa
Phylum to Class
37.3 (54.9)
+0.3 (+0.7)
Dicots
18.9 (28.0)
+0.4 (+0.3)
Subclass to Subtribe
50.3 (99.0)
+0.1 (+0.2)
Genus to Complex
129.6 (315.4)
+0.3 (+0.4)
Species and lower
180.0 (363.5)
-0.6 (-0.9)
Captive
Unknowns
4.0 (9.4)
-0.2 (-0.3)
Plantae
75.8 (179.1)
+0.1 (+0.3)
Graphs of the observation counts over time. The black lines are including Cape.
