I have sometimes made observations of a mother animal with young, or males and females together. Are those worth reporting? If so, how do I treat the adult/juvenile or sex tags?

So, for one example, I did an observation of a White Tailed Deer fawn, and a separate observation of the fawn’s mother. Just included one photo, the individual in each observation I entered. Should I add to each of them the photo of the two of them together? Photos were taken at the same time, of th…

Your example is exactly on point. So I could in principle, do three observations: the fawn, the mother and the two of them? Is that better than two, with a photo of the pair in each individual observation?

Surely you can do it and it adds additional information to context of observation.

You can’t do observation of two of them as separate if you have 2 other observations, you can do either them together as 1 obs or as 2 observation of fawn and mother separately including photos where they’re together.

I agree with melodi_96, for your example there are two ways you can handle this: fawn and mother as separate observation, OR fawn and mother bundle as one observation. If you do 1 and 2 then I would say that technically counts as an observation duplicate, and that is something we want to avoid.

There was one occasion when I put several individual plants into one observation, because I was documenting an instance of incipient invasiveness, and it was important that they were all in one cluster: Queen Palm

Another option, and which I think would be simpler and a great feature for iNaturalist, is to have one or more Observation Fields (on the right-hand side of the page) that can indicate adults, juveniles, or both; and how many individuals in each photograph.

It’s not possible, observation is for one individual.

If they’re different individuals, the photos go on different observations, each with a slightly different location. When I’m interested in reporting a new population of an invasive species, the spread and abundance are most important for me to document.

It’s not possible, observation is for one individual. Why? If I photograph a family of geese travelling together, I would find it simpler and easier to annotate the number of individuals in the one photo in a single Observation field (which could be tracked/ordered in a CSV export), instead of go…

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marina_gorbunova February 10, 2021, 5:52am 22

Your geese observation is not affected on how you posted those deer, you can add only one obs for geese flock and 2 obs for mother and fawn (with picture of them together in both).

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