Ebird has this nice functionality where one’s life list (or the list associated with a place) can be sorted by the date a bird was first or last seen. I would like to see something similar on iNaturalist as well. Often enough it happens that my species counter moves and I have to wonder, wait what…

Often enough it happens that my species counter moves and I have to wonder, wait what did I see today that I have never seen before. It’s not always easy to figure out. You can actually see this already with the calendar. Here you can see that I first observed Carpet Bugle on this date: https://w…

Hey that’s really useful, and I didn’t know about it. Thanks! Although it mostly does answer my immediate question of ‘what new thing did I see today?’, it does give funky results and does not act like the first seen/last seen list you’d find on ebird. And that’s not because it isn’t a list - it’s…

yeah the calendar is part of a very ‘old’ or depreciated part of the site. The life list first feature is one i really like and look at often too, but it does indeed miss things or have other errors.

Sort list by first/last observed

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Add "First Observed" sort option to Life List Feature Requests	6	786	December 2, 2025
Display the species I have observed by date of first observation General	5	380	June 18, 2024
Displaying a chronologically-sorted life list General web , question , lists	20	635	May 15, 2025
My personal first observations of a species General	3	926	June 9, 2023
Find your first observations of every species you’ve seen General question	5	417	January 30, 2025

Sort list by first/last observed

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