Why getting Palaearctic species suggestions for Nearctic observations?

This thread may answer some questions https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/concern-about-cv-model-for-global-genera/45176

Ultimately, the iNat system doesn’t know the expected range of any taxon unless that information is input to an atlas or checklist. Even then, the computer vision algorithm has its own predictive geomodel https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/introducing-the-inaturalist-geomodel/45407

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