Saturday April 6, 2019: Only 19 days until the City Nature Challenge starts!

Before we know it April 26th will be here – its time now to prepare so that you are ready to get out exploring, observing and recording observations of wildlife. Take a moment or two and explore content on iNaturalist. Who has been recording what in your neighbourhood – just enter your postal code in the location box and then move around the map refreshing content as you change areas. Check out your favourite locations. Search for your favourite species and view recorded observations.

Next, if you have not already done so we would like to encourage you to join iNaturalist as soon as possible. Once you have joined you can start sharing your observations. Choose your method – perhaps you prefer to use the free app or perhaps you prefer using your camera and uploading photos online. Either method works.

Next, please join our HRM-CNC project – this is not required for your observations to be included in the challenge statistics, but your name will be included in the challenge’s leaderboard and you can monitor contributions from fellow participants in our area. Plus, by being a member of the iNat project you will be notified of news items and have access to suggested areas to explore. Under projects choose: ‘City Nature Challenge 2019: Halifax Regional Municipality’.

As a reminder, any observations recorded 00:01am Friday, April 26th to midnight on Monday April 29th will count towards the challenge. These observations must be uploaded to iNaturalist by midnight May 5th . The objective is to get the highest number of participants; the highest number of species; and the most number of observations – we need your help!

Posted on April 6, 2019 06:56 PM by mkkennedy