I went through and made that many identifications for both species.
I am so sorry. I am very confused.
Your statement was:
You are listed as having made:
- 760 B. papyrifera Identifications (Paper Birch)
- 12 B. nigra (River Birch)
- 11 B. alleghaniensis (Yellow Birch)
- 1 B. pendula (Silver Birch)
Did you mean you recently identified a few hundred River and Paper Birch observations?
Because then the data would seem to be up to date. No?
I mentioned only the River Birch because it is the one that seemed to be off. I would believe that the Paper Birch numbers are correct, and I didn’t include it in my original post for this reason, although I did identify a few hundred of both species. I suspect that I should be placed 2nd or 3rd in the rankings for River Birch. I hope this answers what is needed.
This is my first iNat forum post. I hope I get it right. I used the snipping tool to get an image of my top 10 IDs. I have a bit over 7,000 IDs, and I have been accelerating my ID work, as I find it to be a pleasant solitary volunteer activity where I can learn and share. Here goes:
Oh boy, it worked!
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Both domestic Mallards and Muscovies can be white, so without a view of the face, it can become difficult to tell them apart, especially to the untrained eye. Also note that juvenile Muscovies have very little caruncles on their faces, so they look more like Mallards.
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I would definitely contact Staff then, as I think (not sure though) data is indexed nightly.
There is someone who is like a guru but I cannot for the life of me remember their username (shocker). That person would no doubt be able to explain the how or why of all of this with ease.
My top 10 have hardly changed since my last update, so instead, here are the species in my top 20! Many of them used to be in the top 10, but have since fallen thanks to my increased focus on ladybugs.
I have a feeling one of the ladybugs will overtake the Green-winged Teal or Siberian Squill for 10th place.
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Thanks, I will. The strange thing is that the observations don’t show up in the “Identify” page for me, so I have no way to go back and re-identify them - this shows that they have tracked that I have made some progress on them. I’ll explain all this to the staff, though. Thank you!
I focus on sorting “unknowns” from my region into broader categories, so my species-level IDs are typically super common critters. The periodical cicadas were a fun outlier since we had two types in the same year to sort through!
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That’s what I thought too! And yet…here they are
CV seems to skew towards genus Cairina as its top suggestion when presented with a bulky black-and-white duck, so that’s probably part of it. I also wonder if people who do their own google search just look up “weird looking duck” or something, and if the colors of any of the resulting images match the bird they saw, they go with that ID.
That looks about right! :P Heavy skew towards orthopteroids plus some of the common spiders that I used to help ID. Not entirely sure how the cotton harlequin bug made it so high up though!
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Here’s mine now:
Where the previous top 10 are now:
#1 Partula radiolata > #1
#2 Palaopartula thetis > #11
#3 Samoana fragilis > #14
#4 Partula taeniata > #15
#5 Partula gibba > #16
#6 Achatinella mustelina > #2
#7 Partula lutaensis > #21
#8 Taxaracum officinale > #34
#9 Helix pomatia > #12
#10 Eua zebrina > #38
New top 10:
#1 Partula radiolata (island endemic)
#2 Achatinella mustelina (island endemic)
#3 Cornu aspersum
#4 Partulina redfieldi (island endemic)
#5 Limax maximus
#6 Auriculella diaphana (island endemic)
#7 Philonesia chamissoi (island endemic)
#8 Cepaea nemoralis
#9 Lissachatina fulica
#10 Partulina mighelsiana (island endemic)
All of my top 10 are now snails, and 6 of them are Pacific Island Land Snails.
If you’re interested in viewing the full list:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=t_0x16c¬_user_id=t_0x16c&place_id=any&subview=map&view=species
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Not surprised by mine. Been IDing raptors state by state, especially owls lately. Bit by bit I’m expanding my range, starting with Ohio and the midwest :)
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nice work!! As a fish IDer I can’t imagine having 5k+ IDs in a single species…
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Mine’s a good mix of birds and hymenoptera. I’m surprised there aren’t more hymenopterans, but bird ID is often so much quicker :)
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How do you subscribe to a specific taxa? I just have a list I search every now and then but if they could get sent to me that would be way more efficient
Go to your homepage on the iNat website, and either to the right of your notifications list or below it – depending on your screen size – there is a “Subscribe to a taxon” button.
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Interesting thread.
Believe it or not I mostly ID snakes…
I have a tendency to get competitive and ‘gamify’ iNat, so I always get annoyed when I find a species I like in my home state that I’m not the top identifier of, and won’t rest until I am 
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Well, there’s the ones at the top. Here’s my link!
I honestly don’t remember IDing that many Giant African Land Snails, though think I did so because they were invasive. That’s pretty much the only surprise I had
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