I don’t think we’ve had one of these before (if we have, I apologize. please link it in the comments if so) Feel free to post links to any projects you want to raise awareness of! They can be things you manage yourself or someone else’s project that you want more people to join and add observations…

I’ve never figured out how to ad an organism to a project.

My knowledge is limited, but here’s how I add observations to a project. First, join the project. Then when you view an observation, on the right side near the middle is a heading Projects. Put the courser in there and select from the list of projects that comes up. Alternatively, when you’re up…

I’m teaching a plant identification class on-line, making heavy use of iNaturalist. I find it useful to have close-up photos of small plant parts, often parts revealed only by opening up flowers. I’ve been posting such photos on iNaturalist. The project “Dissected Flowers” gathers these so they’r…

Okay, that worked and wasn’t hard. I guess previously I had been joining projects average users weren’t permitted to add to, because I had tried it the way you said and been confused about why the project wasn’t popping up.

I guess I should have posted a link to the Dissected Flowers project. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/dissected-flowers

Are you sure those were traditional projets? Collectional projects won’t let you manually add things.

There’s a project about any colour abberants you find: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/amazing-aberrants My own for birs with beak deformities and injuries: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-with-deformed-beaks Project for banded birds: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/banded-bir…

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