I am new and will like to know if I see a bird today and observe and identify it and see the same kind of bird the next day … do I observe it again or not??

A bird a day is a good goal. For an added challenge, look for one bird and one non-bird per day. Perhaps an insect? If you’re actively looking for something, you’re much more likely to find it. Our eyes take in far more information than our brains can process at once, so most of it gets filtered ou…

You can make a new observation if it’s a different individual or a different day than your previous observations of that species.

Welcome to the Forum! I’ve got tons of Black Capped Chickadees and White Breasted Nuthatches all taken on different days and different times of the year. So yeah, go nuts! You’ll probably get tired of doing it, but it’s a good way to become familiar with the site. Edit: I don’t know where you live,…

You can observe it if you’d like, sure. That can be useful information for unusual birds, where it might be interesting for someone to know that, for example, a hawk comes to the same telephone post frequently. For very common birds that can be more or less expected to be in an area constantly, it’s…

If you know it’s the same individual bird (eg it’s got some distinctive marking or deformity), then you can add the “ same specimen over time ” field to your observations (you do that on the iNat website, fields aren’t generally accessible on the app). Just add the ID iNat from your first observation …

You can or not, whichever you want. Per iNat guidelines, each observation is for one individual organism, so theoretically if you see a flock of 100 birds you could post 100 observations of it. However, most users don’t do this and I don’t see it as being useful. One observation per species per loca…

Thank you, Inaturalist open my eyes … I see so many things around me that I just overlooked in a busy life. There is a few birds that visit our yard everyday and it helps to practice “also a new found habit” to take better photos. I am definitely going to do a bird a day.

The same bird more than once

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marina_gorbunova November 4, 2021, 6:20pm 2

You can upload each specimen you see separately, same specimen is better to get uploaded not more than once a day, but same species you can upload as many as you want.

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The same bird more than once

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