What rare animal/plant have you gone looking for? What was it? Did you find it? What rare encounter have you had with a plant/animals by accident? and what was it? Mine would probably be this one - Banded Dotteral There are only around 2500 left in the wild and this one is not quite so rare at a…

In terms of observations, most likely the Gansu Leaf Warbler, which now only has 11 observations. Of course it helps that I am currently living in Gansu, and not many birders come here. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142512966 Though as for rare animals it wouls have to be the Crested Ib…

My rarest is technically a fungus but is probably a violet coral fungus that I found in Minnesota: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129431273 My second rarest is a tar weed that has nearly been taken out from the western half of Washington. The only one I have ever found was on the Olympic …

I think its the Mantis Religiosa or Aedes albopictus (i’m from germany).

The rarest taxon I’ve ever seen was almost certainly an insect that I did not pay any particular attention to. Once we get out of large and / or charismatic organisms (vertebrates, orchids, cacti), it’s probably reasonable to assume that if we know how rare a taxon is, it’s not especially rare.

hm. for me, probably the Kirtland’s warbler, a couple decades ago when the population was even smaller. I’ve seen a number of species near the edges of their ranges, in places where they are considered locally rare. mostly plants, but a few others, too.

[image] jnstuart: [image] egordon88: I would guess the rarest plant I went looking for (and found easily … they’re pretty obvious) was silversword in Hawaii . Oddly I’ve seen silversword in Maui at least three different times but don’t seem to have a photo of it. Or I do, somewhere in my …

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I don’t think so. Pretty sure they aren’t native, hence I said it was owned by someone or someone’s pet. Was “rare” because it became somewhat a rumor among the neighborhood.

Alabama Snow wreath wild colony

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jnstuart November 30, 2022, 1:03am 131

Ha! I dug back into my photos and sure enough I did photo a silversword. Just added to iNat.

I wonder what else I have lurking in my old photo folders.

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