https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91195116
1st ID shows “inactive taxon” as “Maverick”
2nd ID is changed to “Added as part of a taxon swap”
I think that means that the first identifier didn’t accept either automatic taxon changes or this particular taxon change.
Reviving this because I’m encountering the same issue (most recently for all of my double-crested cormorants), even though my settings are set to allow and automatically update taxon changes.
On one observation with three previous identifiers (including myself), all three were marked as Maverick.
I would guess it is due to this:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/double-crested-cormorant-taxon-swap-bird-iders/39722
Because it is a change affecting lots of observations, it may take a while to go totally through (though sometimes observations do get “orphaned” and need some type of interaction from a user to cause them to be reindexed).
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