New York State reaches 1 million verifiable observations!

[klodonnell]

This afternoon, the state of New York passed one million verifiable observations! Great work, New Yorkers and visitors to NY state! Here are your over one million verifiable observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=48

In case anyone was wondering, as of this post, the 1 millionth uploaded observation was a Milky Slug in Monroe County! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53192298

[humanbyweight]

@astrobirder congrats on logging 5% of observations in the whole state, ya big dork

[cmcheatle]

Neat, so that is what the 5th sub-national unit to achieve 1M ?

I’m assuming no Mexican state is at 1M yet.

[Star3]

I’m surprised at the size of the gap between the observation counts for @astrobirder and @susanhewitt in NY.
P.S., Not trying to gameify or create a rivalry. I just see Susan’s observations more often.

…though on reflection that’s probably because I like to hang out in unknowns to ID, and I know she has her own process to add IDs later, so I sometimes see hers.

[susanhewitt]

I can’t really hold a candle to @astrobirder; Ethan is amazing. Also, I am good in a small area, mostly in the “concrete jungle”, Manhattan, NYC, but Ethan has so many observations in a far larger area – out on Long Island, and a great deal of observations upstate. And therefore his species count is also far higher than mine because he visits so many different habitats.

[charlie]

yeah @astrobirder sailed right past me in Northeastern US observations, for a while i was the top observer, but @erikamitchell blew past me a few years ago before that. My excuse is having kids, when i get them all trained on iNat i’m going to be back in the running :)

Of course most of my records are in Vermont, not NY.

[susanhewitt]

Since Ethan has 50-something thousand observations in NY State, and I have 40-something thousand, I suppose between us we have about 9% of the observations. That’s pretty great!