Should iNat add an 'Endemic' filter?

I’m wondering why they don’t have the ‘endemic’ filter if they have the ‘introduced’ one.

the green star next to the name indicates an endemism, is that what you are thinking about?

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No I’m talking about when you go on Explore and there are different filters right? There is a filter for Introduced but not Endemic or Native.

you can manually edit the URL (but you’ll get native and endemic):

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Thank you! But being someone who doesn’t know much about coding, this is challenging.

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no coding required; just copy and paste the text onto the end of the URL on the page you’re interested in

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No need to code. Just copy & paste in the url.
See : https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls#howto

Getting started

Each time a search filter is applied, you'll notice the search URL (or web address) changes. For example, a search for all snake observations...

...creates this URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=85553

This URL is basically a set of search instructions for iNaturalist and it will always show all verifiable snake observations worldwide if you paste it into a a new browser tab (try it!).


You'll notice the last part of the URL above says taxon_id=85553. That number is iNaturalist's ID for the taxon Serpentes (snakes). You can always find that number by going to the taxon's page and looking at the URL (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/85553-Serpentes for Serpentes) or searching for it on Explore and looking at the URL.

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