I understand it! I just try to add all I can if I do at all.
I have an observation of a mosquito, where the evidence is a bite on my arm. Does that count as âTrackâ? If not, it would be cool to add one for âFoodâ which would also cover things like owl pellets, leaf mines and torn-apart prey.
all humans should be annotated as mosquito food :-)
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When I annotated my own small collection of non-organism observations, eggshell and nest were common among them.
Personally I would favour âhomeâ for nest as it is easily translatable and removes the need for dozens of home types in the list.
While we wait for âeggshellâ to be covered, through the excellent process being conducted in this thread, does anyone have a suggested annotation? Mine are usually a single broken shell on the ground. Occasionally an unbroken oneâŚpresumably that is organism, life stage=egg? And, if cold, dead?
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I would say marking any eggs / egg fragments as âOrganismâ, âLife Stage: Eggâ and âDead or Alive: Cannot Be Determinedâ should be sufficient while we wait for more annotation options.
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Thanks, will do.
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Technically, isnât a molt made of dead cells that were once alive? Like the dead skin we constantly shed?
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But organism itself is not dead, so they should stay separated, plus itâs an interesting observation different than just dead body.
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I think that covers every dead cellular organism or part of organism, including dead skin cells:)
Regarding Alive or Dead - remember that an observation records an encounter with an organism or recent evidence of an organism in a time and place. If you came across a snake molt on July 6th at 4:05 pm, I would argue that you donât know whether the actual snake that left the molt is alive or dead on July 6th at 4:05 pm, so the correct value would be Cannot be determined..
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So that is the same as eggshells, life or death Cannot be determined.
And nests or other homes.
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Depending if shells are from hatched egg or eaten, with the scond itâs safe to say itâs dead.
How is âcannot be determinedâ useful? As opposed to no annotation?
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Unless the eaten egg is considered evidence of an ovipositing female in which case the subject organism could be alive. But Iâm obviously overthinking all this. ;-)
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That is how I always see a birdâs egg, actuallyâŚas evidence of breeding, and sometimes of hatching if a broken shell is fresh and clean, and sometimes as evidence of likely predation or nest stealing by another bird
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I find it useful primarily because it removes sightings from the pool of unannotated sightings
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I have a recent observation of a turtle shell (no turtle included 
), and Iâm wondering if this fits within any of these values. I thought Molt might have worked, but I wouldnât consider the shell as having been âdiscardedâ. Iâm no turlte expert; are their shells considered Bone?
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You can choose between bone and organism (as itâs part of it), it has more than just bone, but choosing bone will make this observation searchable.
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A turtle shell, minus the turtle, is the same as finding bones of any vertebrate animal. It signifies a dead turtle. The shell is bone (modified ribs mostly).
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Could add Wing for Lepidopterans.
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