# Obfuscated Locations

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**Created:** [December 13, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/obfuscated-locations/18782 "2020-12-13T23:59:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/obfuscated-locations/18782/5 "2020-12-14T00:37:28Z")

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I’m not sure what the history is specifically with these bird statuses.

This thread could be related?  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-birds-being-newly-set-to-obscured-recently/9753](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-birds-being-newly-set-to-obscured-recently/9753)

Also

> [@Geoprivacy, Obscuring, and Auto Obscure Discussion](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geoprivacy-obscuring-and-auto-obscure-discussion/457/51):
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> iNaturalist has never tried to enter all of the US state-level statuses from NatureServe. Only Canada has had extensive work with subnational NatureServe statuses, thanks to the close relationship through iNaturalist Canada.
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> The main way that national and subnational conservation statuses are entered on iNaturalist is when new countries join the iNaturalist Network. Since we don’t have something analogous at the state level in the US, the iNat statuses are a patchy reflection of the curator community activity and possibly some bulk request from a few states in the past.

[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geoprivacy-obscuring-and-auto-obscure-discussion/457/51](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geoprivacy-obscuring-and-auto-obscure-discussion/457/51)

It’s not the NatureServe statuses specifically that are relevant, it’s how curators choose to act on them. If a breeding population in a state is vulnerable, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all individuals of that species in the state should be considered sensitive for iNat’s purposes.

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