Uploading "common" species

[petezani]

It is hard to anticipate the value of one’s observations. What may seem common, overdone, or excessive may be of great value to someone interested in that organism. I work on one of the most commonly abundant lizards in the United States and see dozens and dozens of observations of this thing in the active season. And while it requires effort to keep up with the identifications, is never an unwelcomed burden since each observation gives me a time, a place, and a visual glimpse into the existence of that thing. Please please please keep posting observations of even the common things, of things that seem redundant, of things that seemingly add very little because they still add something to someome’s unstanding of that thing even if you haven’t met that someone yet.