Hello! I just recently stumbled upon inaturalist after looking for ways I could explore this interest. Let me start by saying, I’m a bit overwhelmed. I have no experience with any of this and I don’t exactly know where to start. All I know is that I live in the most perfect place for exploration wit…

Definitely check out some of the other links on the left of this page, too. Especially the community guidelines and the video tutorials. The links at the top can be really fun, too. Explore (check out the filters) can help you see things that other people have seen in your area, and maybe help you s…

Hi there, and welcome! I would suggest you start out learning your local organisms :) using the app, and safe social distancing, explore whatever you can find right around where you live or work. as people add IDs for you you’ll start to learn to recognize them. once you know a little more, try o…

Welcome to iNat! There is absolutely no rush into getting into grips with how the website works. There are lots of tutorial info ( https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started ) that will help you learn how to use this website to upload observations and make reasonable identifications. Futhermore…

One thing I would suggest is that not every observation has to be a spectacularly captured, perfect picture of a majestic and rare animal. You can start with anything, including with common plants in your neighborhood. (Plants are good to start with because they stay still). While it isn’t the point…

I don’t know what is going on here. Yes, we all need more detailed tutorials on how iNat works but what is most curious about this post is that the mole can’t find find this user (Mink_River) “nothing to see here”. A Dorothy Dixer? I think not and I don’t believe iNat staff would do that but I am ve…

You could ask @Mink_River for a link to their profile… Forum names need not have any correlation to iNat names, so it could easily be a mix-up. Maybe they discovered the site and haven’t made an account yet. Who knows?

I just get the mole! (I don’t know how to drag or drop an image here of what I’ve seen.) There doesn’t seem to be anyone called @Mink_River to ask. I tried both on the forum and on iNat itself???

I also got the mole on iNat. The Forum user is apparently brand new here. People often find the Forum before making an iNat account (usually they ask for ID here).

[image] Mink_River: Could someone recommend any beginner resources? This is a simple and humorous orientation for beginners, thanks to a guy on PBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-LjzKx-u9g

Thank you for all of the replies! I’ll look over the website more carefully, including the FAQ and tutorials, along with the other suggested content. I made a forum account, which I’m assuming is different from my iNat account. So I’ll go make one of those now.

Where do I start?

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Where do I start?

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