One of the nice things about iNaturalist is that it can be retroactive; the site policy states that “recent” evidence means evidence from within the past 100 years. Now obviously iNaturalist did not exist 100 years ago (I hear the WiFi speed was lousy back in 1921), so that means you can upload pict…

My oldest are Adelie Penguins in Antarctica in 1987: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100800216 I spent 6 weeks in McMurdo, a fascinating trip.

I’ve always wanted to go there. Unfortunately there’s not much of a demand for musicians there so I haven’t really had an opportunity or reason.

Album promo? Film a music video there? I guess it would be super expensive … Hmm what’s the most well known band that’s played in Antarctica?

[image] charlie: what’s the most well known band that’s played in Antarctica? Metallica. Nunatak. Polar bears. Penguins.

My oldest iNat observation is this elk (=wapiti) from Banff National Park, taken January 1996: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/9549629 I have older photos, but nothing I can date precisely. I do have bird checklists going back to the early 1980s…I did my first Christmas Bird Count in 1985.

I have a few from the late 1980s. Western Whipspider - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4241637 Black-bellied Pangolin - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4362424 Common Emperor Scorpion - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4233631 African Civet - https://www.inaturalist.org…

My oldest research grade one is this Common Eider I drew in my teenage notebook on 4 September 1976: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/1818918 - I think the agreement was generous. I have uploaded media-less observations back to 26 August 1976, which is when I first started keeping a note…

My two oldest are a Caribou and a Grizzly Bear from Alaska in 1984.

Being very “long in the tooth”, I can point to a scanned slide of a butterfly in Taiwan which has an estimated date of May 1969: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69211543 I had probably just bought my first SLR, a Minolta, and a 135mm telephoto lens. I took the camera with me on a day tri…

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jasonhernandez74 November 13, 2021, 5:24am 29

42 years – and research grade!! Well, that gives me hope that my Taiwan observations (now 17 in all, including the aforementioned snail) may also achieve that status.

Also research grade! You guys are on a roll!

And again research grade!

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