Go to inaturalist.
Type www.inaturalist.org/observations into the address bar
After the / enter your birthday in the format DDMMYYYY
What’s your birthday species?
Mine is a banded pennant (Celithemis fasciata) observed in Jackson County, Mississippi, USA.
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Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) in Colorado
Mine is not a cool one. (
Campanula giesekiana from Ontario, Canada.
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Huh, mine returned a different date, 03-08-2018 instead of 15-08-2020 (clearly, my birth year would not be represented - far, far too old for iNat obs).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15082020
White-shouldered house moth with no photo ;(
But then I typed it as MMDDYY and got an Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp O_0
sanderling in Texas
and your variant an endangered Hawaiian raspberry!
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At the top of the list for my date was a Ragged Sea Hare.
OP idea is that you post your date as part of url, like a number of observation.
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You are entering the observation number, not the date of the observation. So you can put your birth year and it will come up with an observation.
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Maybe the number is too high? Try MMDDYYYY instead
Bummer that they didn’t have a photo, but if you look up the species, it’s a pretty flower.
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Thanks. I’ll try to do that later when I have access to a desktop computer. My critter literacy is better at times than my computer literacy.
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Red huckleberry. That’s cool, I like huckleberries.
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I got invasive Creeping Thistle, which is lame, so I switched to my usual preference of MMDDYYYY and got an unidentified Ceanothus in California. That works! Always excited for plants I haven’t met yet!
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Nope, not too high, just a missing observation!
I got this: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120607

A terrible photo but Research Grade observation of an endemic species so… still cool.
Edit: I did DD/MM/YY instead. For DD/MM/YYYY I get this, which seems a lot less interesting (Casual Virginia Creeper).
you arent alone, i got mole too 
btw now we know the birthdays of some repliers to celebrate :) isnt it a bit personal info to share?
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If it makes you feel better, I worked where it was seen in summers as a teen, and it’s a cool place with a pretty unique biota for Canada.
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I thought so. OP didn’t ask for a link which would be the easy way to see someone’s birth date. If someone were really motivated though they could figure it out using info from the screenshot.
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