for example: [image] This shows chauncey with 1011 identifications of J. grandis. Go to taxon information page: [image] This shows chauncey with 542 observations and 654 identifications. I’m perplexed. What am I missing? Thanks for your help. Platform PC, website Browser, Chrome

the number identifications that shows up in the Observation detail page includes seems to represent identifications you made on any research-grade observation, including your own observations (see https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications_identifiers.html?&taxon_id=77599&per_page=50&…

Thanks for looking into this. I’m not totally sure what to make of it, but sounds like things are working as they should.

Hi @odole your post and analysis seemed relevant to this recent bug report, so I hope it’s ok that I moved it here. Thank you for your detailed analysis of the count differences. Not sure I have any definitive answers, and the developers might have to answer for sure. But a couple of factors that…

odole: Why does URL #1 give a total number of IDs that is smaller than URL #2 (77858 vs 81037) ? Yes+No should be equal or greater to Yes. URL 1 is using the default hidden param verifiable=true, while 2 also includes IDs on observations that are not verifiable. odole: why is the …

I think some of the confusion is because iNat treats searches for IDs very differently from searches for observations. You can see the API docs for IDs here and for observations here . odole: adding &verifiable=true to URL#2 does not change anything Correct, URL 2 is an ID search and do…

the Explore (aka Observation Search) screen by default will look for non-spam, verifiable records. however, the Observation API endpoints don’t apply those parameters by default. so https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=tiwane would be equivalent to https://api.inaturalist.org/v1…

Observations/Identifiers count discrepancies

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Ident count on Identify page thumbnails is inconsistent and count in app is also different Bug Reports web , android-app , staff-can-replicate , issue-made	32	2356	July 26, 2023
Discrepancy in # of Results: Observations vs Identify modules Bug Reports web	3	254	June 9, 2022
Inconsistencies in identification counts for taxa General	3	534	September 25, 2023
3 different stats for identifications- which is correct? Bug Reports	6	644	December 18, 2023
Identifications made for others question Bug Reports	3	286	August 22, 2021

Observations/Identifiers count discrepancies

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