What's your birthday species?

Aloe imalotensis - a species from Madagascar.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12121971

However, that method seems to based on the observation ID, not the taxa ID, which is 424488 for this aloe.

If I put my dates into the taxa ID bar in DDMMYY format I get Blue Garden Flatworm (Caenoplana coerulea)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121271-Caenoplana-coerulea

This little fellow is apparently originally from Australia and New Zealand, but is now invasive everywhere.

Personally, I always use the international standard date format (YYYYMMDD) to avoid confusion, o that returns different species:

Morella parvifolia a shrub from northern South America, or, using the taxa method, Camptodes texanus, a beetle from near the Texas/Mexico border.

I see it was separated from rotundifolia, so probably a pretty similar one?

I get a Euphorbia as my birthday observation - happy with it, I like that genus. It is also from a user (and curator) I know (not personally though).

Additionally, I filtered for observations made on my birthday - there are 5 in total, but 4 from the same observer

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Somewhat amusingly given my last name, I get a beetle.

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I got “Plants (Kingdom Plantae)” and the plants in the observation were cultivated. :-(

Mine is pretty cool, I got a Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) near Milan, Italy.

Mine was an Arabian Toad-headed Agama from the UAE.

phew at least I’m not alone, I thought my birthday was cursed or something-

Depends on the style of the date (DDMMYYYY, MMDDYYYY, YYYYMMDD, DDMMYY, MMDDYY, YYMMDD), I get:

  1. Mudwort (Limosella grandiflora) from South Africa
  2. Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) from USA
  3. Cut-leaved Crane’s-bill (Geranium dissectum) from England
  4. False Black Widow (Steatoda grossa) from USA
  5. Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from USA
  6. Darkling Beetle larva (Tenebrionidae) from New Zealand

A nice range of taxa and locations.

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Cool – an endangered plant in Mexico:

Especially cool because I am of half Mexican ancestry.

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Amazingly I got a grass in my home state. Freaky says the grasslands-lover and invasive-brome-puller! Quite a pretty shot!

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DDMMYYYY also returned a pretty great one! I feel so lucky! Heck yeah Nudibranch!!!

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Now I want to see all of those for myself:

  • Two-striped Grasshopper in Colorado, USA
  • St Lucie Cherry in Czech Republic
  • Bald Eagle in British Columbia, Canada
  • doesn’t exist
  • Virginia Opossum (no photo) in Indiana, USA
  • Rock Pigeon in Seattle, WA, USA
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A moth called a “Hebrew Character” observed in the Czech Republic.

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Alas, I have nothing :frowning_face:

“Sorry, that doesn’t exist!
Even our dedicated search mole couldn’t find anything!

Tried again with YYYYMMDD (which is more sensible anyway, IMO) and got Telegraph Weed (Heterotheca grandiflora), which, although not rare, is a local plant I’m quite fond of.

I got a Trailing Fuzzy-Bean (Strophostyles helvola)

Mine is https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/85106. Genus Lonomia.

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