I really enjoy joining projects. I horde projects I’ve joined like a magpie hordes random trinkets. I’m always looking for more to join and I’ve already found some good ones from seeing them get mentioned here on various forum threads. So to all my fellow magpies here, what are some of your favorite…

One I found today, with an interesting premise: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/home-compost-exploration

[image] jgw_atx: First Known Photographs of Living Specimens Wasn’t there another project for first observations of an organism on iNat (not first everywhere)? I thought there was, but I can’t seem to find it.

I’ve never seen a project for that. I would love to see it though if it does exist!

I definitely remember it being discussed here, but not sure if it existed already or someone wanted to make it.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/specific-animal-plant-interactions → great use of observation fields https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/microlepidoptera

Maybe some sort of Mandela Effect at work here for you & me, @marina_gorbunova , because I’ve been searching for projects named “First” and can’t find it. :frowning_face: The closest I can find is iNat Observation of the Day which sometimes has iNat firsts, but not exclusively. Also, seeds and fr…

So would it be first observation added or oldest observation?

I was looking for first added, not oldest.

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Star3 May 26, 2022, 3:33pm 77

Same! I remember it, but all I could find in forum search was a feature request for it to be some sort of system-applied observation field.

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