I observed an Aerodramus bird (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144333-Aerodramus). As I found out from the members of iNat, these are hard to ID from each other, bordering impossible to decide from just a picture. So my observation was downgraded rightfully from specific one I picked based on location and iNat recommendation (Aerodramus fuciphagus) to Aerodramus genus. Still, this genus is shown in my species list on iNat, counted as one observed species (totalling 501 bird species observed). On the other hand, when I use this tool (https://kildor.name/inat/species) to download a CSV list of observed bird species, the Areodramus is not present and the number is just 500. How and when is iNat deciding to count a hard-to-ID genus as a species? And why API output differs from UI output? Sorry for a specific question, I am pretty sure this is already discussed somewhere, but I can’t find it. Thank you in advance!
this is the difference between leaf count and species count; see https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000194813-how-does-inaturalist-count-taxa-
There might be something more going here, the taxonomy page is saying “all subspecies added to database” implying it is a species.
