Is there way to check what kind of species are available in selected location per months/seasons?
when i check selected specie i can see on chart in example that it is mostly observable april-june. but i would have to go through each specie and check manually. is there way to show some stats for location for all species filtered. like birds, what birds will be observable through months for that location.
On the Explore page you can use the filters, then click the “Species” tab: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?month=6&place_id=1859&view=species&iconic_taxa=Aves
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if you’re looking for birds, you’ll probably get better data looking in eBird. for example, the data in the screenshot below can be generated from: https://ebird.org/barchart?byr=1900&eyr=2025&bmo=1&emo=12&r=PL-PD&personal=true
it’s theoretically possible to generate such information from iNaturalist, but it just takes more work to do it. i don’t think there’s anything already built that does this exactly, but there are other things in the system and made by third parties that show different seasonality-related information in different ways.
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thanks, that view is exactly what i was hoping for
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if there’s anyone interested in getting similar data for things other than birds, let me know how you would use such data.
i think it’s possible to adapt something like https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_observations_taxonomy?iconic_taxa=plantae&place_id=124278&verifiable=true to (also) get data by month, but i’m not sure anyone would try to get seasonality by taxon for a large set of taxa besides birders.
If anything I would have thought seasonality would be more important in the world of insects, where emergrance and flight times are much more constrained. A couple of years ago I produced a series of articles for the UK Hoverfly project detailing which species to look for each month: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/uk-hoverflies-syrphidae/journal/88324-improving-the-diversity-of-hoverflies-on-inatuk-introducing-what-to-look-out-for
I didn’t use iNat data for that, precisely because I was trying to highlight which species we were failing to record on iNat, and encouraging people to go looking for them in the right place and at the right time. But I can imagine someone doing something similar with iNat data.
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The taxon pages on iNat have a seasonality graph built in and there’s a location filter you can use to select a specific place to get the graphs for that location only. It has to be one of the places entered on iNat though, I think:
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Never mind, I didn’t read the question carefully enough! You can create collection projects by month and selected taxa (or all species) and maybe have an umbrella project for all the months of the year for a specific location to summarize the data.
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One challenge here for insects is that sometimes seasonality can have a reciprocal effect on the IDs that are provided. For example, there are some bees where flight periods can be used to help determine the species (because one species is known to be bivoltine and a similar one is univoltine, or one species flies later than another – or there are a couple of central European halictids that can be identified in the male sex because they fly in the spring when males of the other species don’t appear until the summer). Or males and females have different phenology and one of the sexes is easier to ID than the other. Both of these factors can result in a certain portion of observations of particular species not being recorded as such because they are only ID’d to genus or subgenus. So this may distort the phenology graphs, suggesting that a species is less common certain times of year when in fact it is merely harder to ID.
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