As per the title, what species would you love to see in person? Despite their supposed commonality (and my love of lepidopterans) I have yet to encounter a Cecropia or Luna moth. I’ve only seen foxes a couple times in my life, and I haven’t encountered a single one since I started iNatting, so that…

For more global species: I want to one day photograph and see the Aethia Auklet species that live up in the Aleutian Islands Lemurs Spoon Billed Sandpiper Triprion (shovel headed) Tree Frog species Hornbills Podocnemis Species Oropendolas Turacos Komodo Dragon Ghariel and way too many oth…

[image] er-birds: Ophioglossum/Adder’s-Tongue Ferns I found some growing in a potted avocado (grown from seed) our friends left behind when they moved out of state. We bought their old house. The spores must have been in the dirt or compost they used. I delicately transplanted them to another…

Animals in my area: Sandhill Crane, Eastern Coyote, Groundhog, North American River Otter. Animals in other areas: American Brown Bear, North American Cougar, Canada Lynx, Gray Wolf.

despite of looking hard since the 1970s, I never saw any Autophila hirsuta. The moth species is described from Switzerland, my home country, but either it seems to be very local, super rare or simply doesn’t come to the artificial light at night. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1137310-Autophila-h…

[image] egordon88: Bird - spoon-billed sandpiper Bee - Perdita minima Moth - painted schinia Plant - Penstemon harbourii Mammal - any wild flying squirrel [edit] and jaguarundi or ocelot! Reptile - Gila monster And this wasp - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75731994 What, no…

I’ve seen a humuhumunukunukuapua’a in person :slightly_smiling_face: No idea where to start with snails, besides lots of garlic and butter.

I’ve thought about this question and I’ve decided that I don’t have a wish list for specific species. I definitely want to travel outside my home range (New England in the US, more or less) and see everything and anything that I’ve never seen before, but mostly I just want to “see” - meaning find an…

In my local area, mainly owls (especially an Eastern screech owl, they’re adorable). I’ve yet to see an owl in the wild. For species living elsewhere, reptiles, since we have so few in the frozen north. The top of the list is an indigo snake but I’d also love to see a copperhead and a coral snake.

Probably not that exotic or exciting but two animals I missed on different trips that I really wanted to see but didn’t was a road runner and a moose.

What's on your personal wishlist?

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jbecky March 28, 2022, 9:51am 45

What, no wish list for fish or snails?!? There are tons of nudibranchs that I’d love to see, plus the Mola mola, a.k.a. Ocean Sunfish, and Leafy Sea Dragon.

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