Also, these 2 are useful for all the whatsits found on beaches:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/beach-finds-and-washashore
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/intertidal-zone
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Don’t recall seeing these two mentioned yet:
Beetles with pollen
Crabs of the World
The first is one that’s relatively easy for me to contribute to and has some fun observations in it. Less often that I’m able to add anything to the second, but there are unique-looking crabs and amazing photographs that often catch my attention when I’m browsing the project’s observations.
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I just joined Beetles with pollen and it reminded me of another project I forgot to mention
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pollinator-associations
Pollinator Associations has a lot of observation fields. Besides the plant/flower being pollinated you can also add info about other pollinators and pollinator predators seen on the same plant/flower as well as a variety of behaviors.
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Thanks for the mention of Footzoom. Since you mentioned it, it has become a Featured Project and I have had 28 users join!
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I had never heard of this before. I was slightly disappointed when I discovered it wasn’t observations with people’s shoes or feet in the picture (not in a creepy way), either by accident or for scale. That would’ve made me chortle. I also have many.
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I see a project need that isn’t being met — “Fingers and Feet in Photos” LOL. (reminds me of the Fingers in photos forum topic LOL) … (I use the term “need” loosely, but certainly nothing wrong with a good laugh:)
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The project thumbnail made me think of that too
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I created the artwork from an actual observation of something that had landed on my foot while I was relaxing in a canoe.
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That would be such a fun project! I definitely have a few observations that would fit into it.
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What a great forum topic!!!
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Aw thank you!! :)
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How do iNatters with lots of projects keep them all straight in your heads? I haven’t even figured out how to alphabetize my list of projects I’ve joined, much less separate them into automatic collectors vs. projects where I have to add observations manually. And do you leave bioblitz projects once the allotted time is up, just to clean up your list?
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If you go to your projects page they will already be in alphabetic order. I did a feature request for having separate lists for traditional and collection/umbrella projects. Someone else did a feature request to organize them by most recently used/visited so that bioblitzes would end up at the end. No sign of either being implemented.
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I never noticed they were in alphabetical order on my project page - ha! Thanks for opening my eyes!
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Yes I do. Once the journal updates are done, nothing more comes in.
No, they don’t really come before valuable projects, if you don’t remember a project, well, maybe it doesn’t worth it for you? I get back to id observations from blitzes I participate, and badges on observations help advertizing next blitz.
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Just to be clear. I have hesitated leaving projects because I did not want to remove observations from the project. When one leaves a traditional project, bioblitz or other, do their observations still remain a part?
If you leave a traditional project the observations will stay unless you choose the option for them to be removed when you leave the project. They will stay for collection projects UNLESS the project has the parameter that observations included are only ones made by people who are members of the project.
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There’s a lot of great projects out there! A project I haven’t seen mentioned is the Animals in Urbania project, documenting how animals make use of human resources. It’s an interesting way to see how animals coexist with people.
There’s also Bird Interactions, which records how different species of birds exist with one another.
Lastly, a more niche project is the Canadian Species Honoured with their Own Postage Stamps project, which is exactly what the title suggests.
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Leaf and Plant Galls is another good one, and not limited to NA.
There’s some good fungus ones as well:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-fungal-diversity (traditional)
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fungi-of-the-world (collection)
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