Website seems to work for me now. But I am also having issues with the search function. Other than that, great updates, very exciting!
On another note: I would love to be able to add multiple “eaters” to one “organism being eaten”. I think these are very interesting interactions to document but the current setup only allows for one URL to be registered in the required observation field
I’ve enjoyed adding to this project since learning about it. The new features are exciting! I seem to mostly photograph birds and otters eating fishes (like your example of the Great Blue Heron, which seems to find every fish possible!) It helps me so much that there are a few purple on iNaturalist that really know the fishes and can ID to species.
Great project! Love the graph on the website.
I echo the note by others re interactions between wild and domestic organisms - I’ve got observations of pollinators visiting garden plants that I’d like to add when that functionality becomes available.
Are things like leaf mines and galls appropriate for this project, even when the organism doing the eating isn’t directly visible but their ‘sign’ (mine, gall) is identifiable to species?
great project. I just added my first observations.
Oh yes, I also have observations that would fit for that - though it’s another garden tree, which has its own issues.
Good question, I haven’t thought of that, but could contribute some observations.
I see a lot of observations with only one end being complete and the other partner observation not added. I wonder if there is an automated way using a computer program to fill in the incomplete pairs.
I am still unable to access the website but I am guessing that it’s because the site is still newly live (understandable)!
On your other note, I’d also love to be able to add multiple “organism being eaten” to one “eater”! I have a few observations of one bird eating multiple prey items - first thing that comes to mind is an osprey who caught two separate fish, but I also have a couple pictures of birds with several different invertebrates in their beak.
Hmm that’s strange, that shouldn’t be because the website was already online even before this update. Maybe try it with a different browser, it might be due to your browser settings somehow.
I hadn’t considered one ‘eater’ to multiple ‘being eaten’ ‘s yet, but great to hear there is some interest for being able to link more than one observation to another! - In identifying for this project I’ve noticed that to get around this issue some people have resorted to simply uploading the same organism multiple times and linking each observation to one other one, which technically works but is leading to unnecessary clutter on the platform.
It is also true that there are a lot of observations which are uploaded to the project without following the instructions properly, leading to obs that are not properly linked and therefore do not show up on the website. It would be wonderful to have:
but I imagine this might require more resources than are available to the project? Although, since they are currently getting filtered out somehow, it might be feasible to flag these lacking observations in some way. Any tools to make this easier or workarounds that do not require going one observation at a time would be very welcome!
Also, wanted to send out a friendly reminder that doing some identification for the ‘needs ID’ is very worthwhile for getting more pairs onto the website (since they only show up if both obs are RG)!
Looks like great fun. I am unclear on one thing, and apologies if it is covered somewhere. Say I have uploaded the preferred two obsevations:
Eater, for instance, this White-winged Scoter:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337694352
Currently, I have this in the project as “eater”, with a link to the observation below.
Thing eaten, this sand dollar:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337824591
Currently, I have this in the project as “organism being eaten”, with a link to the observation above of the scoter.
All good, but should I add both observations to the project, or only one, and then just provide the link? No big deal, but I don’t want to cause some sort of infinite loop!
(Edit. Punctuation, typo!)