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How to locate observations of specific behaviours?
Once I've got sufficient observations to begin a traditional project on iNaturalist I'm interested in setting one up documenting intraspecific predation on elasmobranchs but I'm unclear on how best to locate these observations.
I've collected a number already in my favourites purely by luck and searching for the word "predation" in tags but I highly doubt I've scratched the surface. With AI capacity increases it would be good to see compute vision not only able to guess at the spe...
Project data permissions and selecting the right permissions for you and your data
When you first sign up for iNaturalist you are automatically assigned a Creative Commons (CC) licence for your data. But did you know there are different types of licences?
The default licence (CC-BY-NC) sadly does not allow scientific bodies that may be interested in biodiversity or species distribution data to access your records. If you could like your records to have a larger benefit to science, we recommend changing your licence to either No Copywrite (CC0) or Attribution (...
Итоги марта и первой четверти.
Друзья, мартом закрываем первую четверть проекта «Большой год 2025».
За предыдущих два месяца было загружено 45.000+ наблюдений, в марте мы добавили ещё более 33.000 – хороший старт весны!
В марте было на 28 наблюдателей больше, чем в феврале, а в целом к проекту присоединились уже более 400 человек!
Количество наблюдаемых видов выросло с 294 до 362 – плюс 68 за месяц.
Fun Facts about the Eastern Kingbird!
During the summer the Eastern Kingbird eats mostly flying insects and maintains a breeding territory that it defends vigorously against all other kingbirds. In the winter along the Amazon, however, it has a completely different lifestyle: it travels in flocks and eats fruit.
It’s not called a kingbird for nothing. The Eastern Kingbird has a crown of yellow, orange, or red feathers on its head, but the crown is usually concealed. When it encounters a potential preda...
Fun Facts about the Steller’s Jay!
Steller's and Blue jays are the only North American jays with crests.
Steller’s Jays have the dubious honor of being one of the most frequently misspelled names in all of bird watching. Up close, the bird’s dazzling mix of azure and blue is certainly stellar, but that’s not how you spell their name. Steller’s Jays were discovered on an Alaskan island in 1741 by Georg Steller, a naturalist on a Russian explorer’s ship. When a scientist officially described the speci...
Fun Facts about the Golden Eagle!
The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world—it's the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.
Although capable of killing large prey such as cranes, wild ungulates, and domestic livestock, the Golden Eagle subsists primarily on rabbits, hares, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs.
Because their common prey animals (mammals) don’t tend to ingest pesticides, Golden Eagles have escaped the harm sustained ...
Fun Facts about the Golden Eagle!
The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world—it's the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.
Although capable of killing large prey such as cranes, wild ungulates, and domestic livestock, the Golden Eagle subsists primarily on rabbits, hares, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs.
Because their common prey animals (mammals) don’t tend to ingest pesticides, Golden Eagles have escaped the harm sustained ...
7 Apr 2025 - Third survey
Did Point Centred Quater method sampling random points 19-35.
Also found various other bryophytes in a tree fall area.
Also located quite a few instances of Phyllanthera grayi
Join the City Nature Challenge 25 - 28 April 2025
Hi Everyone,
We are excited to let you know that Greater Belfast and the surrounding area will be participating in theCity Nature Challenge, 25–28 April 2025. You have been tagged in this post because you are either:
- A top observer from last year’s City Nature Challenge
- An active observer in the project area
- An active identifier in the project area
How to Get Involved
There are several ways to get in...
Dictyophorus (Dictyophorus) spumans ater (Distant, 1892)
Dictyophorus spumans ater (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)
Original description and illustration in:
Distant, W.L. 1892. A Naturalist in the Transvaal. London: R.H. Porter.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20046#page/287/mode/1up
Plate IV, fig. 3:https://www...
Edição 3- A Chegada da Primavera
O mês de março é considerado uma viragem fundamental no ciclo anual dos ecossistemas do Geoecótono Duriense. É o mês que marca a transição do inverno para a primavera, o que traz mudanças significativas nas condições climáticas e nos ritmos biológicos das espécies que habitam esta região. A temperatura média começa a subir, os dias tornam-se progressivamente mais longos e a pluviosidade assume um papel central na regeneração dos habitats. Este conjunto de alterações desencadeia uma série d...
🤯 Neuer Meilenstein erreicht!
🌳 Gestern wurde die 3000. Meldung in unserem Gebiet hochgeladen. Seit dem Start des Projekts sind damit etwa 250 neue Meldungen und rund 90 neue Arten hinzugekommen. Wir möchten uns hierfür herzlich bei den neu beigetretenen Usern sowie bei den altbekannten Naturalists bedanken und hoffen, bald einen weiteren Meilenstein – nämlich die 1300. Art – erreichen zu können.
🐝 Bei der 3000. Meldung von david_becker1 handelt es sich um eine Schwebfliege der Gattung Sphaerophoria, möglicherw...
Jak poznat světlušku? SVĚTLUŠKA KRÁTKOKŘÍDLÁ
Světluška krátkokřídlá (Phosphaenus hemipterus) je naše nejmenší světluška. U tohoto druhu nelétají nejen samice ale i samečci.Samci mají hnědočernou barvu, výrazná tykadla, a díky pahýlům redukovaných krovek i svou celkovou hbitostí mohou svým vzhledem připomínat spíše drabčíky.
Neotenické nelétavésamičky i larvy jsou tvarem těla podobné zmenšeným verzím samiček a larev světlušky větší, u larev však bez typických teček a u samic s výraznými tykadly a...
Jak poznat světlušku? SVĚTLUŠKA VĚTŠÍ
Světluška větší (Lampyris noctiluca) je, jak již název napovídá, naší největší světluškou. Její tmavě zbarvenísamci při letu nesvítí, i když lucerničky mají. Jsou však primitivní; tvoří je pouze pár teček na spodku zadního článku zadečku zděděný z larválního stádia. Samečci svítí pouze v případě ohrožení, například při pádu do vody, chycení do pavoučí sítě nebo do ruky nemotorného člověka.
Samice světlušky větší jsou bezkřídlé a nelétají. Zbarvením jso...
Jak poznat světlušku? SVĚTLUŠKA MENŠÍ
Světluška menší (Lamprohiza splendidula) je naší nejrozšířenější světluškou. Jsou to právě létajícísamečci tohoto druhu, kteří vytvářejí světlené roje díky dobře vyvinutým lucerničkám umístěným na spodní straně dvou zadečkových článků. Tyto lucerničky lze na samečcích dobře najít i za světla v podobě dvou bílých pásků na spodu jinak hnědočerného těla.
Samičky nejsou schopné letu, protože se u nich nevyvíjí křídla a svým vzhledem jsou celkově podobné sp...
A new threat to the European marine environment, The exotic polyclad flatworm Postenterogonia orbicularis (Schmarda, 1859)
First European record of invasive flatworm Postenterogonia orbicularis in Asturian (Spain). Help track its spread and ecological impact on native bivalves! #InvasiveSpecies
All scientific information:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103758
Le City Nature Challenge arrive à grand pas !
Cette année, la Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Sol en Ville, l'association Faunes, la société botanique d'Alsace et le Jardin des Sciences de l'Université de Strasbourg s'associent pour participer au 1er défi nature urbaine de la capitale européenne !
Le principe : Photographier et identifier le plus d'espèces sauvages pendant 3 jours, en utilisant l'application iNaturalist !
Que vous soyez amateur·ices ou professionnel·le, n'importe qui peut participer !
Vous pou...
April is going to be busy!
Reporting on the last 2 weeks because, sadly, the rain has postponed a few nest box monitoring activities. We hope that the volunteers who couldn't make it will have a second chance to sign-up and join one of the future monitoring events!
Three monitoring activities occurred, around the South side of the Sunshine Coast.
The first one was fully booked with 5 amazing returning citizen scientists who were eager to monitor Ben Bennett Bushland Park. They knocked off 10 nest bo...
石碇高中校園，有新嬌客露面囉~
石碇高中校園，有新嬌客露面囉~
Cassidinae larvae found on April 5 2025 in Serowe, Central Botswana
A group of about 20 larvae found on upper surface of leaves of a convolvulaceae sp plant.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/268761665
They are now being reared on leaves of the same plant in a sealed jar.
365 mosses: day 100
I found this moss in the ‘cup’ of a potted Bromeliad (for those not familiar with Bromeliads, their leaves form a cup which holds water) in the greenhouse. I didn’t immediately recognise it, so I took some over to the lab to look at it under a microscope. I still didn’t immediately recognise it. Based on cell shape and growth form, I figured it was probably in either the Brachytheciaceae or Amblystegiaceae family. I eventually narrowed it down to a few possibilities, and finally concluded ...
Plant ID Workshop - Plant and Soil Society, The University of Melbourne
I joined the Plant ID Workshop - Plant and Soil Society, The University of Melbourne. In the workshop, I learned about different ways to documents plant in everyday setting, such as creating a Natural History Journal, plant and flower press, and iNaturalist apps. We walked around the University of Melbourne to find and identify several plants.
You Yang Regional Park
I visited You Yang Regional Park at Saturday, 5 April 2025. I arrived at around 10.15 AM and went through the Flinders Peak Walk (3.5 kilometers walk, 2 hour round trip).
My Milestones
Milestones
The following is a list of the milestones that I find important and wish iNat would record/display. I've long been a proponent of gamifying citizen science to increase data collection, but this will have to do for now! These milestones are grouped by several factors, such astype (observation/identification/species) andtaxonomic group (overall/animals/birds/plants). More sections will be added as the milestones are met!
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Planning a Grass Roots Bioblitz
In 2024, The Bureau of Land Management and Nevada Department of Wildlife cosponsored the first bioblitz at Gold Butte National Monument. This year those two organizations are focusing their resources at Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. This presented an opportunity for the Friends of Gold Butte (FoGB), a donation based conservation organization located in Mesquite, NV, to plan and execute this year's bioblitz.
FoGB had less than three months until the 100+ F day-time temps were upon ...
UNA PENA LAMENTABLE
Al día de hoy la zona de la que documente por años, hoy se encuentra invadida por predios ilegales, talada, contaminada e inclusive involucrada en varios delitos.
Es una tristeza profunda en el corazón ver como las personas destruimos lo que mas importa.
Update - April 6
Common Green Darners are now reported from across the state in March. 57 observations, 14 counties, 21 different observers. All good. We also have some April records. We needed this week's precipitation to recharge the wetlands, but I'm ready for some sunshine and warmer days.
The April issue for Ohio Dragon Flyer is now ready. It is distributed via the Ohio Odonata Society website. Connect at
Pelicans on the Pond
Arrived early to the Blanca Vista park with my pups. While the dogs enjoyed running free in the dog park area, I scanned the neighboring pond. Pelicans, avocets, gulls, and geese huddled together on a flat. The pond was steaming, the early morning light was reflecting off the water, and I discovered just how smudged my binocular lens were. There was too much cloud coverage to say "good morning" to our local fourteener, but I know she must be enjoying her new coat of snow. We need the water...
