# My personal first observations of a species

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/my-personal-first-observations-of-a-species/42408>\
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**Created:** [June 9, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/my-personal-first-observations-of-a-species/42408 "2023-06-09T06:41:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/my-personal-first-observations-of-a-species/42408/4 "2023-06-09T19:27:55Z")

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here’s a related feature request:  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/sort-list-by-first-last-observed/4069](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/sort-list-by-first-last-observed/4069)

here’s the closest thing you can get in the system, i think:  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/sort-list-by-first-last-observed/4069/2](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/sort-list-by-first-last-observed/4069/2)

outside of the system, there are lots of ways to get an answer:

- you could write something (in HTML+Javascript, just Javascript, R, Python, etc.) to figure this out by getting data via the API
- you could download your observations as CSV, aggregate by taxon, and then get the min(id) and/or min(date) by taxon. (this could be done using Excel, R, SQL, etc.)

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