Your top 10 most identfied

[danly]

I bet that you IDed those non-Bombus observations because the observers originally IDed the Xylocopa and Apis as Bombus. Lots of people think all bees are bumblebees!
Thanks for all your IDing; I’m one of the 41,000+ beneficiaries of your efforts.

[alecc]

In my effort to reach 2:1 IDs to obs ratio, I figured I’d start with identifying some of my own most observed species. Turns out Thalasseus was a bit of a mess, so I’ve spent the past week or two starting to clean it up and now have 3 of the species in my top 15 (R.I.P. Clintonia borealis, Common Garter Snake, and Song Sparrow).

[danly]

Like most others here, I am not surprised by what I identify most: common flowering plants of Northeastern U.S.
What does surprise me is that I have IDed in more than 800 species. I would have guessed 300 at most…

[scharf]

I identify a lot of unknowns in my area, which are often common species. That said, I’m surprised to have IDed over 1,500 species so far! I checked, and 280 are fungi, and 676 are plants. These numbers seemed high, so I looked at a few of the observations of organisms that I did not identify frequently – many of them I IDed only to family.

[larry216]

That page displays the Community ID, so everything you identify to family (or broader IDs) gives you credit for whatever genus or species the observations are ultimately refined to.

[anastasiiamerkulova]

Yay, thank you! Interesting
I mostly identify simple taxa in my region

[arthrop0denthus1ast]

Most of the bugs are from sorting out Pterygota indet. observations, meanwhlle I think the cornsalads were from sbushes’s plant obs (unfortunately it takes a long time for their IDs to go through and they aren’t too familiar with plants, so they just leave it as Plantae indet.)

[mmorales001]

These are mine

[That_Bug_Guy]

I got into identifying squirrels

[Ajott]

I mean, they are super cute, I get it

[jjwsphotography]

Springtails and… wait. Is that a plant??

[tonyrebelo]

No surprizes in mine

[Gemfyre]

I’ve been birding 20+ years now. My knowledge of other taxa has only increased more recently.

[s3alampr3y]

It’s mostly stayed the same since March

Top 15:

[bobmcd]

Decided to revisit this and see what has changed since Nov 2022.
The first here is from what used to be my preferred area, Pacific Coast zone

Not within the Pacific Northwest Coast zone (the rest of the world)

[yorkshiresoul]

I’m brand new to this and my early top 10 are big / bright / obvious things, Rowan, Ragwort, Horse-Chestnut, Common Hawthorn, Common Bracken, Lawson’s Cypress, Sycamore, Himalayan Balsam, Common Snowberry, Tutsan.

Observations for others…I’m so new I don’t know how to order the stats for this, but things like Rowan, Rosebay Willowherb, Horse-Chestnut…

[larry216]

Welcome to iNaturalist and to the iNatForum, yorkshiresoul! It looks like you’ve been here for less than a week and you’ve already made twice as many identifications as observations. That’s exceptional! Thanks for your contributions.

@yorkshiresoul

Observations for others…I’m so new I don’t know how to order the stats for this, but things like Rowan, Rosebay Willowherb, Horse-Chestnut…

There’s a lot you can do when you learn the right tricks with search URLs. This one shows the identifications you’ve made for others, by species.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=yorkshiresoul&not_user_id=yorkshiresoul&place_id=any&subview=map&view=species

Looks like the Horse-Chestnut has an overwhelming lead!

[theresephillips]

What site or extension did you use for the green and red color sorting of the species?

[annkatrinrose]

Sorry for the late reply - recovering from carpal tunnel surgery, so I haven’t been on the computer much lately. This was pretty much done manually. I took a screenshot, added it as an image to a blank Powerpoint slide to crop it, draw the boxes (with transparent color fill), then saved everything as a new image.

[im-a_cat-purrson]

My most is fly agaric ids.