Featured observation: Yellow-headed blackbird
This week’s featured observation is a Yellow-headed Blackbird , observed by @natethokle in Medicine Hat, AB
The songs of Yellow-headed B...
Everyone's Journal Posts
And CNC 2024 is a wrap!
A shout-out to everyone who contributed this year. Some phenomenal observations and image captures that helped Surrey contribute to making Metro Vancouver the national lead at over 14,000 observation, beating Montreal by just over 20!
Metro Vancouver also ranked 33rd in North and South America as part of the international results.
I hope you'll continue to contribute throughout the year. the observations you make are integral to helping the City of Surrey in monitoring ...
And 2024 is a wrap!
A shout-out to everyone who contributed this year. Some phenomenal observations and image captures that helped Surrey contribute to making Metro Vancouver the national lead at over 14,000 observation, beating Montreal by just over 20!
Metro Vancouver also ranked 33rd in North and South America as part of the international results.
I hope you'll continue to contribute throughout the year. the observations you make are integral to helping the City of Surrey in monitoring ...
"American gooseberry" cultivars explained
I occasionally see people upload observations of "American gooseberry" hybrid cultivars which can't be identified to species due to the fact that the binomial species concept doesn't apply to these individuals. In order to avoid having to type out the same explanation every single time, I'm making this journal post that I can link people to instead.
Most of the information below was gleaned from the following really nice PDF I found, but I adapted it to have a greater emphasis on...
2024 Observations of the Week Archive
Auswertung / Diskussion zur CNC2024 Wien
Hier hab ich schonmal Platz geschaffen für euere Kommentare.
Werde demnächst hier Links und mehr Text bereitstellen, hab nur gerade keine Zeit.
Hier aber schonmal ein erster Überblick, wie immer vielen Dank an @barnabywalters!
https://waterpigs.co.uk/inat/cnc-wien-2024.html#at-firsts
In Awe, Inspired, and In Admiration
At the start of planning for this year's City Nature Challenge six months ago, our driving vision was for this event to be more inclusive at the community level, both geographically and demographically. In other words, we hoped for more people-diversity to complement the biodiversity of our county. Both deserve to be valued and championed, and citizen science is the perfect forum for accomplishing this.
By comparing the maps of last year's CNC observations with this year's, and b...
Proseguono le attività didattiche promosse dal WWF Napoli al parco Carmine Minopoli
Anche oggi sono proseguite le attività didattiche promosse dal WWF Napoli all'interno del Parco Carmine Minopoli di Napoli nell'ambito del progetto "Sostenibilità a tavola" con due classi terze dell'Istituto Aberghiero Duca di Buonvicino. Gli studenti hanno effettuato diverse osservazioni con l'uso dell'app i Naturalist.
Merci à tout le monde! La période de téléversement pour le DNU est officiellement terminée
C'est avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme que nous vous remercions pour votre participation au DNU cette année. Nous reviendrons sous peu avec les résultats officiels, une fois que la Fédération canadienne de la faune les a compilé pour le Canada et que l'équipe DNU global a compilé les résultats à l'échelle internationale. A prendre note que les observations pour Montréal se sont clôturées à 9h locale; elles se termineront également pour la côte ouest à 9h temps local.
Pour nous, ...
Libro
Muy pronto habrá una excelente herramienta para identificar chicharras: https://www.owlflyllc.com/the-cicadas-of-north-america
2024 Obscure Amazonian Lizard Observations of the Week
Why are infants of the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) less cursorial than those of the common impala (Aepyceros melampus)?
The pronghorn (Antilocapridae: Antilocapra americana) is hypercursorial ().
Among bovids, the most cursorial species belong to the tribe Alcelaphini, which run with great speed and endurance. However, the pronghorn is more cursorial than any alcelaphin.
However, the pronghorn is anomalous in a certain way: its infants hide immobile for three weeks before they and their mothers resume their normal gregariousness.
For comparison, infants of the alcelaphins Connocha...
Fim da Fase 2 e do Desafio Mundial da Natureza Urbana 2024
Hoje às 9:00h de hoje, 6 de maio de 2024, fechou a Fase 2 do Desafio Mundial da Natureza 2024 e com ela oficialmente o D(M)NU 2024 (#CityNatureChallenge2024).
Brasil bateu todos os recordes históricos obtidos no evento e em outras maratonas naturalistas nas que tem participado. Ainda estamos aquém do esperado para um país baleia (grande territorialmente e em população) e com a maior diversidade do mundo, no entanto, estamos indo pelo caminho certo.
Parabéns a São Paulo! ...
Fim da Fase 2 e do Desafio Mundial da Natureza Urbana 2024
Hoje às 9:00h de hoje, 6 de maio de 2024, fechou a Fase 2 do Desafio Mundial da Natureza 2024 e com ela oficialmente o D(M)NU 2024 (#CityNatureChallenge2024).
Brasil bateu todos os recordes históricos obtidos no evento e em outras maratonas naturalistas nas que tem participado. Ainda estamos aquém do esperado para um país baleia (grande territorialmente e em população) e com a maior diversidade do mundo, no entanto, estamos indo pelo caminho certo.
Parabéns a São Paulo! ...
Finalizada a Fase 2 do DNU2024
🗣️ Hoje, 6 de maio de 2024, às 9:00h fechou a Fase 2 do Desafio Mundial da Natureza 2024 e com ela oficialmente o DNU 2024 (#CityNatureChallenge2024).
Muito obrigado a todes es que contribuíram com suas observações e/ou identificações 💚.
Fechamos com 6.666 observações (6.626 cumpriram os requisitos do evento), realizadas por 211 pessoas. Dessas observações 42,58% (2837) alcançaram o nível de pesquisa -o 57,42% ainda requer de terminar o processo de identificação. Foram um...
Final Tally and Participant Survey
Hello,
This will likely be the last post I put in the project journal. I wanted to give a final wrap-up on our project statistics, give you all some links to see how the larger City Nature Challenge went, and also provide a link for a survey to help us gather a little information on the project and improve it for future years.
Our project statistics:
- 6,691 observations
- 1,378 species
- 261 observers
- 346 identifiers
- 53.95% (3,60...
Obscure Amazonian Lizard Observation of the Week: 6 May, 2024
[in English]
This week was another relatively large pool of observations submitted to the Lizards of the Amazon Region with 381 observations from <...
Journal Test
This is a test to see how journals work on here! I think this could be a good way to update participants and encourage people, plus maybe link to the socials posts. We can also give updates like 1 week remaining etc.
Fatsia japonica - growing outdoors
A fantastic and impressive example of Fatsia japonica (Araliaceae) (Japan and South Korea) observed growing outdoors (in the U.K.). Commonly known as the castor oil plant or fig leaf palm, it grows up to 4m in a decade. An evergreen shrub with 7-8 dicotyledonous splayed, leathery, palmately lobed leaves, and small white flowers in terminal compound umbels, it produces a beautiful cluster of ornamental, non-edible black berries. It grows well in moist and well-drained soils in partial sha...
Adopt-A-Pond BioBlitz!
To celebrate the launch of our Community Science projects on iNaturalist, we are running a BioBlitz from May 5th – May 19th! All submissions to our FrogWatch Ontario or Ontario Turtle Tally projects made through iNaturalist during this period will be counted towards the BioBlitz.
As a bonus, there will be prizes awarded to community scientists who submit submissions during the event! 1 randomly selected observer from each project will be selected, with the grand prize going to t...
Adopt-A-Pond BioBlitz!
To celebrate the launch of our Community Science projects on iNaturalist, we are running a BioBlitz from May 5th – May 19th! All submissions to our FrogWatch Ontario or Ontario Turtle Tally projects made through iNaturalist during this period will be counted towards the BioBlitz.
As a bonus, there will be prizes awarded to community scientists who submit submissions during the event! 1 randomly selected observer from each project will be selected, with the grand prize going to t...
Adopt-A-Pond BioBlitz!
To celebrate the launch of our Community Science projects on iNaturalist, we are running a BioBlitz from May 5th – May 19th! All submissions to our FrogWatch Ontario or Ontario Turtle Tally projects made through iNaturalist during this period will be counted towards the BioBlitz.
As a bonus, there will be prizes awarded to community scientists who submit submissions during the event! 1 randomly selected observer from each project will be selected, with the grand prize going to t...
Birthday Trip to Wollemi NP
Animals seen during trip.
Апрельский биоблиц
Друзья, закончился четвёртый месяц проекта, сейчас к нему присоединилось 264 (+31) наблюдателя, 258 (+27) из которых уже поделились своими наблюдениями.
На большей части страны шёл активный прилёт птиц, поэтому результаты апреля весьма впечатляющие: в проекте уже загружены наблюдения для 393 (+162) видов, общее количество наблюдений приближается к 95.000 (+33.000).
По итогам марта я прогнозировал, что к концу апреля появится пять наблюдателей, участвующих в проекте, котор...
128 тысяч наблюдений
Фиксируем статистику:
128 164 НАБЛЮДЕНИЙ, 2 194 ВИДОВ, 1 429 ЭКСПЕРТОВ, 1 214 НАБЛЮДАТЕЛЕЙ
Mecistes tarsalis Chapuis, 1874
Diagnosis from Zoia 2009: Legs black/metallic blue (not with reddish tibiae), sometimes with bronze or geenish reflections. Antennae black with articles 2 to 6 partially reddish. Elytra: punctures irregular, not or poorly arranged in longitudinal rows, in places separated by smooth logitudinal costae; each elytron with a longitudinal costa, starting from the humerus and almost reaching the elytral apex; elytral setae sparse, yellowish or whitish in colour, curved.
Original descri...
Рекомендации к фотографированию споровых растений
Если у растения есть структуры, связанные с размножением - лучше постараться сфотографировать их тоже (можно добавить несколько фото к наблюдению, если на одном не помещаются). Например, у папоротников сорусы со спорангиями чаще всего расположены с нижней стороны листа - стоит сфотографировать и её тоже. У мхов можно постараться заснять коробочку, если она есть.
Spiders
Spiders, but also unknown flying objects, have never been my friends - ok at a distance (social distancing), but not so cool too close.
Since I started using iNaturalist, I've been outside a lot more often and exploring nature (I think you can also see that in the number of observations 😜). But for the last few weeks I've been particularly fond of spiders and I can't get enough of them, especially the jumping spiders are so cute with their lovely faces.
I think exploring nature h...
Species count
Observed and posted on inaturalist: 44
Estimated species as of May: 58-65+ (5.7% of all Thailand species)
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