Welcome to the club, New Zealand! (Countries and regions with more than 1m verifiable observations)

Nice one - but I wouldn’t nail it down on one particular observation - there are constantly observations deleted, dates or location added later or, more often, marked as ‘not wild’. So there is a fluctuation and even different observations could be the 1-millionth one

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it’s hard to pin down after the fact due to the kinds of issues noted by carnifex. right now, that observation is sitting at 999996 based on https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?id_below=108292263&place_id=6681&verifiable=true&spam=false.

this is true, India was 30000 behind Brazil and sitting at 666000 in July 2021.

here are all the countries currently with more than 100000 verifiable observations (51 of them):

ID Alpha-2 Code Name Check List ID Parent Place Population Area (sq km) Observations
1 US United States 299 North America 331,449,281 9,826,675.00 44,974,743
6712 CA Canada 7025 North America 37,894,799 9,984,670.00 6,993,302
6793 MX Mexico 7116 North America 124,777,324 1,972,550.00 3,786,763
6744 AU Australia 7060 Oceania 24,511,800 7,692,024.00 3,298,816
7161 RU Russia 7502 Asia 146,804,372 17,125,191.00 3,069,392
6857 GB United Kingdom 7190 Europe 66,022,273 242,495.40 2,226,852
6986 ZA South Africa 7324 Southern Africa 59,622,350 1,221,037.00 1,893,016
7207 DE Germany 7548 Europe 83,149,300 357,587.80 1,480,844
6753 FR France 7069 Europe 67,063,703 643,801.00 1,334,791
6803 NZ New Zealand 7126 Oceania 5,112,300 268,021.00 1,324,573
6973 IT Italy 7310 Europe 60,317,000 301,338.00 1,281,538
6774 ES Spain 7097 Europe 46,733,038 505,990.00 1,128,246
6681 IN India 6982 Asia 1,326,093,247 3,287,263.00 1,000,219
6878 BR Brazil 7213 South America 213,317,639 8,515,767.00 980,900
7512 EC Ecuador 7868 South America 16,624,858 256,370.00 784,995
8051 DK Denmark 8545 Europe 5,827,463 42,925.50 738,301
7196 CO Colombia 7537 South America 49,065,615 1,141,748.00 705,712
7613 HK Hong Kong 7991 Asia 7,500,700 2,755.00 698,011
7122 PT Portugal 7463 Europe 10,347,892 92,212.00 654,295
7190 AR Argentina 7531 South America 44,938,712 2,780,400.00 652,886
8057 AT Austria 8551 Europe 8,979,894 83,879.00 541,078
6924 CR Costa Rica 7261 North America 5,213,362 51,100.00 464,081
8860 UA Ukraine 9628 Europe 41,588,354 603,629.00 462,322
7020 FI Finland 7359 Europe 5,516,224 338,424.40 402,834
8264 CZ Czechia 8893 Europe 10,701,777 78,866.00 385,635
7506 NL Netherlands 7862 Europe 17,282,163 41,543.00 369,634
7155 MY Malaysia 7496 Asia 32,447,385 330,290.00 331,174
7236 CH Switzerland 7578 Europe 8,466,017 41,285.00 313,834
6966 ID Indonesia 7303 Asia 270,625,568 1,904,570.00 303,062
7008 BE Belgium 7347 Europe 11,521,238 30,528.00 290,447
6903 CN China 7239 Asia 1,443,497,378 9,596,961.00 287,209
6734 SG Singapore 7050 Asia 5,866,139 719.1 272,616
6891 KR South Korea 7227 Asia 51,466,201 100,295.00 266,748
7800 PL Poland 8190 Europe 38,382,576 312,683.00 251,121
7003 PA Panama 7342 North America 4,098,587 74,177.30 250,041
7182 CL Chile 7523 South America 18,054,726 756,102.00 249,788
7094 GR Greece 7435 Europe 10,760,421 131,957.00 235,147
7513 PE Peru 7869 South America 29,381,884 1,285,216.00 234,592
6737 JP Japan 7053 Asia 125,440,000 377,972.30 232,754
8266 LT Lithuania 8895 Europe 2,790,842 65,300.00 206,511
7599 SE Sweden 7967 Europe 10,409,248 528,861.10 201,803
6967 TH Thailand 7304 Asia 65,931,550 513,119.50 193,469
6929 HN Honduras 7266 North America 9,265,067 112,492.00 143,296
8147 LU Luxembourg 8664 Europe 626,108 2,586.40 137,095
6783 BO Bolivia 7106 South America 11,051,600 1,098,581.00 126,653
6873 PH Philippines 7206 Asia 109,035,343 343,448.00 123,435
7016 NO Norway 7355 Europe 5,425,270 385,207.00 112,019
8196 HR Croatia 8787 Europe 4,105,493 56,594.00 105,218
6815 IL Israel 7141 Asia 9,187,000 20,770.00 104,945
7578 BY Belarus 7937 Europe 9,349,645 207,595.00 104,320
7783 MG Madagascar 8171 Africa 25,570,895 587,295.00 101,450
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Maybe you can help with IDs for ‘the rest’ of Africa?

Unknown Africa

Many plants. Many bugs. And this mystery

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Safari doesn’t allow people to go out of the car pretty much all the time, so you can guess number of plant and insect observations from tourists is much lower than what they could be, and those are main contributers of both observation numbers and species (people mainly visit for mammals, birds and reptiles maybe). e.g. both Kenya and Tanzania still have less than 100k observations each.

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Why are there some beetle genera cropping up in this search? e.g. Schizonycha

I have shifted some animals out :)

If it was already ided, likely taxon is undrafted to correct parent.

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Seems to be grafted ok Longleg Chafers (Genus Schizonycha) · iNaturalist

It’s hard to say without seeing the page then, can be many things.

Taiwan is missing on that table

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that’s interesting.

it looks to me like Taiwan (place id 7887) is no longer defined as a country within iNaturalist. it does retain the admin level 0, which countries use, but it no longer has place type 12, which defines countries (or at least used to define countries). it looks like the place was last updated on 7 March 2022, and as far as i know, only staff can update these kinds of places. so i assume the change came from staff, though staff (@loarie? @tiwane?) will have to speak to whether or not this change is intentional.

from my perspective, without relying on place type 12, there’s no other documented way to efficiently get a list of countries from iNaturalist, unless i manually define the list of countries myself (which i’m not going to do.)

here’s what i see from the old API response for Taiwan (https://www.inaturalist.org/places.json?ancestor_id=97395&latitude=23.7785353908&longitude=120.8662501376):
{"id":7887,"name":"Taiwan","display_name":"Taiwan","code":"TW","latitude":"23.7785353908","longitude":"120.8662501376","swlat":"20.6477","swlng":"116.6605","nelat":"26.4354","nelng":"122.1585","woeid":23424971,"parent_id":97395,"check_list_id":8288,"place_type":null,"source_name":"225","source_identifier":"0.0","created_at":"2009-12-28T11:54:03.000-06:00","updated_at":"2022-03-07T08:39:12.662-06:00","user_id":null,"ancestry":"97395","slug":"taiwan","source_id":10464,"admin_level":0,"uuid":"9bc198b0-bf6f-4f75-a59f-3d7bd3c23ca6","place_type_name":null}

just for comparison, here’s what the API returns for China (https://www.inaturalist.org/places.json?ancestor_id=97395&latitude=36.507419842&longitude=103.9687408191&place_type=12): {"id":6903,"name":"China","display_name":"China","code":"CN","latitude":"36.507419842","longitude":"103.9687408191","swlat":"18.1096","swlng":"73.5577","nelat":"53.5609","nelng":"134.7739","woeid":23424781,"parent_id":97395,"check_list_id":7239,"place_type":12,"source_name":"49","source_identifier":"0.0","created_at":"2009-09-24T01:18:18.000-05:00","updated_at":"2017-12-03T12:53:13.794-06:00","user_id":null,"ancestry":"97395","slug":"china","source_id":10464,"admin_level":0,"uuid":"0135b593-8893-43ed-a4b2-6c081069cdee","place_type_name":"Country"}

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And here we go: Parabéns, Brazil!

I guess the next milestone will not be a country threshold, but the platform reaching 100,000,000 verifiable observations - the question is, when? Maybe during the CNC…?

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No, a few days later…

2022-05-22: 99.976.431
2022-05-23: 100.112.166 ( 135,697 observations posted on this day)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_d1=1922-05-01&created_d2=2022-05-22&place_id=any&subview=table
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_d1=1922-05-01&created_d2=2022-05-23&place_id=any&subview=table
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_on=2022-05-23&place_id=any&subview=table

https://static.inaturalist.org/misc/2020-09-fifty-million-announcement/Globe-Announcement-3.gif
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/66531-we-ve-passed-100-000-000-verifiable-observations-on-inaturalist

The staff wrote a post about this memorable milestone:
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/66531-we-ve-passed-100-000-000-verifiable-observations-on-inaturalist

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Australia just passed 4 million observations

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Sometime since this thread started we passed 2 million.
1 identifier for every 2 observers - sounds doable (but still about 70K Needs ID just for the Cape Peninsula)

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This prompted me to check - and indeed!
Germany very recently surpassed 2 Million observations:

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Denmark and Ecuador now have a little bit to get to the mark of 1 mil!

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Those are just the research grade observations though, the verifiable ones are more than 3 million!

…which prompts me to check too. I see the UK is not too far off 3m verifiable - not nearly enough of a rate of increase to make it there by her Majesty’s send-off, but I’m sure she’d be proud nonetheless :)

Perhaps later in the month, or early October.

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No, these are the verifiable ones (RG + Needs ID).
Not excluded in all the numbers in this topic are the casual observations

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I’m doing something wrong then… if I select “verifiable” in the filters I get 3.060.325 observations, if I select “research grade” I get 2.031.933 observations.