Im new to inaturalist and im curious, have you ever gone to a place just because you saw an intresting observation? Like travelling to an exact location just to see what YOU could observe there? I know that there are big groups for this sort of thing, but just YOU traveling for some observations a…

Welcome to iNaturalist! I have accompanied family members to an archaeological site in which I had no real historical interest but I had been stunned by all the species I observed there a few years previously. On the previous occasion my phone had run out of battery so this time I took an extra bat…

Ha! I do this regularly. Once I saw an interesting observation online and got there so fast the observer was still on site. We had fun talking plants and iNaturalist. More often I get an old herbarium record and try to track it down to see if the plant is still there for iNaturalist. This works…

Pretty regularly! (Admittedly, I’d have gone to these places anyway, but taking photos for iNat adds the extra push). I’ve definitely taken myself off to certain local nature reserves to find a bird somebody posted the day before, with success

I do this all the time. My furthest travel so far was last fall: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/elias105/71367-how-i-found-the-hairy-shadow-witch Basically when the last orchids stopped blooming in Ohio I opened inaturalist, looked for the closest orchid anywhere that was still in bloom (happe…

I do this all the time :smiley: I will plan day trips by looking at the iNat observation mapping for some species I want to find, and then going there at the right time. I’ve gotten a number of lifer birds by doing this.

I sometimes do this, but I usually won’t travel too far. For example, I live under an hour’s drive from the Florida Everglades, and will make occasional trips targeting snakes and such. I will usually find a lot of other cool stuff too when I go on trips like this, and in some cases (like if I’m go…

When I first started to look for dragonflies/damselflies a few years ago I checked iNaturalist because there were some species that I really wanted to see in-person. (The American rubyspot is one.) But, I also looked on the iNaturalist Explore Map and looked for places in the area where there was go…

Yes, but only in my country. Last year I went specifically to see two flowering plants.This year I am planning to visit two places for lichens. Though these last two are both for iNaturalist and for professional purposes.

I enjoy doing the same thing. I use Google Maps to find locations that seem to be decent habitat for whatever I’m looking for, and head out to see if I can be the first person on iNaturalist to record it. That’s how I found some Indigo Buntings and a Bobolink at an abandoned golf course.

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