I was having this conversation in which me and another iNat user were discussing if bird song audio recordings should be annotated as “organism” or “track” in the Evidence of Presence category. My thinking is that getting an audio recording of a live animal is the same as getting a photo of a live …

Definitely don’t do track. If you mouseover the annotation values you’ll see their definitions, eg [image] Organism seems OK to me, but definitely don’t feel the need to annotate something unless the annotation value fits it. There are plenty of observations to annotate, and as @cthawley said it’s…

Should observations that only include audio recording of birds be annotated as "organism" or "track"?

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pisum July 1, 2023, 12:49pm 9

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-evidence-of-presence-annotation-for-audio/40854

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Should observations that only include audio recording of birds be annotated as "organism" or "track"?

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