Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2023 Louisville Metro

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

Good News! If you have any photos of species taken from April 28 to May 1 that you did not get a chance to upload to this CNC Louisville Metro Bioblitz, you can still do so until 9 am. May 8.

We now have all the BIOBLITZ information for all 482 cities in 46 nations that participated from around the world. Here are some Highlights from the iNaturalist CNC Organizers of this 4-day global event! The City Nature Challenge started in 2016 with just TWO cities- San Francisco and Los Angeles. Look at how it has grown! I'll be providing findings from Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort over the next few days as I examine the Excel Spreadsheet I was sent . Stay tuned!

Meantime, here are some highlights.

Total # of observations: 1,870,763
Total # of observers: 66,394
Total # of species documented: 57,227+, including 2,570 rare/endangered/threatened species
Most observed species: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Number of participating countries: 46
Number of participating cities: 482

Go here to see Global Summary and Leaderboards for Cities
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023

Go here if you want to scroll through photos of the nearly 2600 Endangered and Threatened species found in cities from around the world. This shows us that CITIES DO HARBOR RARE, ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES and Conservation in Cities should be an important concern for local authorities and citizens.

8000 people observed 2600 RARE, ENDANGERED OR THREATENED species IN CITIES. MANY ARE BIRDS. You should see all the AFRICAN PENGUINS!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2023&quality_grade=research&threatened&verifiable=any

Also, a reminder that City Nature Challenge Louisville Metro as its own Facebook page. I will be posting visuals there- I cannot do that here. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091257433696
CNC-Louisville Metro 2023 is also on Instagram. Just use that title to find it.

I will be posting other Louisville highlights here over the next week. And on our Facebook page.

Hope you had fun even if the weather was blustery and cool during the Bioblitz.

Enjoy the spring!
Margaret Carreiro
Administrator of iNaturalist CNC Louisville Metro

Hi, Folks-

I will provide a summary of our finds here in the next days, but in the meantime, if you use Facebook, I have been posting on our very own Facebook page. Just go to the website below and scroll down to see summaries I made using CANVA.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091257433696

More coming!
Margaret Carreiro
margaridamaria on iNaturalist