As November in Northern hemisphere is one of the dead months on iNat, it’ll make sense to push observers out of warm houses to see something! I would like to hear your ideas on what theme should it be, most people focus on birds, so I would like to make birds an exclusion of the project, would it ma…

Here it is https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/marchantioblitz-2022 still doubting the idea, but created it, so if anybody wants to join – you’re welcome.

Heh. I’ll choose the Quabbin Reservoir Watershed here in central Massachusetts - almost 120,000 acres in total. I could visit that every day for a month and still not get to every entrance gate (there are 54, although a couple are closed right now).

I did it at a small city park. Became a favorite spot of mine.

Yeah, I think the point would be to pick a small area and come to know it intimately. I could hike the Quabbin watershed for decades every day and still not know everything about it.

I foresee this bioblitz mainly compounding the problem of the “Needs ID” pile. I still miss ID-a-Thons.

Sorry, but that’s not a place to discuss that, I already mentioned experts and in every bioblitz I try to maximize their work, so please just don’t.

Maybe a bioblitz focusing on animal tracks or scats? It you wonder the forest long enough, you’re bound to find evidence of something. It can also be a chance to learn animal prints identification.

Well, I’m not sure I understand the purpose of a bioblitz. There is no shortage of observations being uploaded; just try doing unfiltered IDs and watch the page count go up when you mark as reviewed and refresh. Now, if there was a part of the world without many observations, or a taxon without man…

I’m sorry, but it’s like saying why observe anything at all? I’m one of top iders btw, I know what it is and also know if you wish to work hard numbers will go down. I didn’t ask here for opinions on about to do bioblitz or not, I asked about different ideas.

I’m having a hard time seeing the issue. A bioblitz undoubtedly increases Needs ID, but increases Research Grade too. I mean, if we are really obsessed with Needs ID numbers, we should just all take 5-10 years off from observing. It’s good for a bioblitz to encourage high quality observations. For …

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