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Those two views count species differently, see https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/how_inaturalist_counts_taxa . (FYI some of the info on Life Lists on that page is currently out of date.)

Thank you @jwidness ! I’m going to have to read the info on that link a few times (at least). It is a bit complicated, as it says. But I have read it through and will beat my head against it some more. And I appreciate your response.

the larger count in the second screenshot actually represents “leaf taxa”, which includes higher-than-species taxa for which there are no descendant taxa represented in the set of observations. for example, if obs A is birds (class), obs B is mammals (class), and obs C is eastern gray squirrel (spec…

My observation and species counts don't match in all observers view vs. my observations only for the same location

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My observation and species counts don't match in all observers view vs. my observations only for the same location

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