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…

EDIT: here’s a picture of Blanco while he was in Houston [image]

beautiful photos!!! what a cool treehopper

Thanks. I love those little guys

My rarest ever!!! This awesome little beetle! I found it, yup, you guessed it, tearing the bark off a log at the Arkansas Post!! Only 18 observations in total!! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333903033

I saw a Baird’s Tapir while visiting Costa Rica! We were driving back from a hike and it was crossing the road

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53812026 Found while not even looking for wildlife, of course… haha! 68 observations currently, mine was 52nd and 1st in Connecticut. Wish I could learn more about my rare find, but sadly there isn’t a lot of information about it (of course :frowning: )

I will also add a recent confirmation for https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331462846 , which while not rare on a global or even state scale, is often only considered native ~25 miles north and 1000 feet up. I was also proud of this find since the invasive P. abies is a constant source of con…

The rarest thing I’ve seen, in iNat, is a beetle I photographed on a bluebonnet during a mostly bluebonnet-free drive through my favorite bluebonnet peeping location in 2023. My photo of it became the default photo of the species probably because, of the 4 observations in iNat, mine was the only pho…

What is the RAREST animal/plant you have ever seen

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cooldood January 10, 2026, 12:16am 346

Common ringed plover, I have no idea how to tell how many times it has been seen in Maine

But I am guessing around 3. I drove 100 miles at -20 -30F. Got there at dawn got some pics 2 minutes later it died.

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What is the RAREST animal/plant you have ever seen

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