IS THE CITY NATURE CHALLENGE BIOBLITZ OVER? NOT QUITE!
Hi, everybody!
I sure hope you had a chance to go out and take photos or make audio files of the other species around us from last Friday to Monday, and that you had a good time despite the uninspiring blustery weather we had.
May 8 at 9 a.m. will be the final day to upload photos and audio files taken from April 28 to May 1 (11:59 p.m.) within Jefferson County (Louisville) so they count for this iNaturalist Global Bioblitz involving 485 cities!
We'll have another week to work on identifying species to get as many as we can to Research Grade correctly. Once brought to research grade this citizen science dataset becomes available for scientists to use. This is a distinction between the iNaturalist app and others that simply identify species for you.
If you can help with identifications this week, your help will be most appreciated!
Our work on identifications this week may change the species number you see today, as some species are downgraded to genus or family taxonomic levels. But others may go from Order or Family levels and be identified down to species by some of us and curators and other experts who help. I am contacting the known leaderboard experts for a particular species that may be in doubt and asking them if they can ID them from the photos provided.
If you haven't checked our status on number of species, observations, observers, and identifiers, go here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-louisville-metro
Click on those words to see who and which are in the lead.
Click on the word Stats and you will see three rings. Click on the colors in each of those rings to see more details about, say, birds, insects, plants.
On the ring labeled: Observations, click on the yellow sector of the ring, and you will see all the as yet UNIDENTIFIED observations. Then if you can help ID them, please help!
Two weeks from now we will get all the biodiversity summary data comparing all the cities and we'll see how Louisville stands compared to other cities our size from around the world!
IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHERE LOUISVILLE STANDS IN COMPARISON WITH LEXINGTON AND FRANKFORT on number of species found, number of observations uploaded and number of observers, go here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/kentucky-city-nature-challenge-2023-cities
Hope you are enjoying the slightly warmer weather. Talk to you soon!
Margaret Carreiro
(margaridamaria)
Administrator of the CNC for Louisville Metro
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May 2nd isn't the deadline. According to the email sent this morning from the organizers: "You all have until 9 am your local time on Monday, May 8th to get all your observations uploaded. You can upload any photos you took from April 28th - May 1st."
Yes, thanks NABA-centralky. I added a new journal post saying that, but I will edit it here too. This was different from last year!
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