Hi all! I was wondering if there is a way to filter out observations that contain pictures of dead animals through the annotation feature “Alive or Dead” - I see that under the “Identify” tab, you can filter to observations containing the “with or without” annotation, but unless I’m missing somethi…

Follow-up: [image] Identify Filter "Without Annotation" not working properly As it turns out, the parameter term_id_or_unknown can be combined with without_term_value_id to get observations which either have no value set for a specific annotation, or they have a value but it’s something other th…

You can manually edit the URL: [image] How to use iNaturalist's Search URLs - wiki - part 2 of 2 For observations that are marked as alive or undetermined but NOT dead, use https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?term_id=17&without_term_value_id=19 Update to add that per @bouteloua ’…

See the ‘Search for Annotations’ section on this page: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2-of-2/18792 Essentially, add the following to your URL: “&term_id=17&without_term_value_id=19” which will exclude any observations with a DEAD annotation. Example…

Looks like those only show observations that are annotated as “alive” or “cannot be determined”, rather than all observations without a “dead” annotation though. without_term_value_id=19 (dead) doesn’t work on its own, i.e. to show both unannotated observations and also those annotated “alive” or “…

Some earlier threads (I feel your pain - there was a West African project carefully recording what came to the fish market. Dead fish. Dead shark. Dead turtle. It is serious research but, pages and pages) https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-photo-blur-on-observations-annotated-as-dead/21214 d…

Thank you all dearly! I will start using this url when I’m trying to find opossum observations :slight_smile: you all are the best!

Unless the appropriate annotation has been filled out, nope. You can certainly filter out observations where dead observation subjects have been annotated as such, but otherwise I’m afraid you’re out of luck.

Way to filter out dead animal observations?

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jwidness November 25, 2025, 2:28am 9

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Way to filter out dead animal observations?

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