Woodland Park Zoo is thrilled to help mobilize people across the Seattle metropolitan area (all of Snohomish, King and Pierce counties) to join the City Nature Challenge – a friendly nature-observation competition using iNaturalist! Whether your Amphibian Monitoring team is monitoring your site during that time period or you’re using iNaturalist to record your own personal wildlife observations, we hope you’ll join the City Nature Challenge!
You can support this effort by being an observer, helping others identify their observations, or better yet – both!
To be an observer:
Take photos of wild plants, animals and fungi in the Seattle metro area
• Only species in the wild count for this competition! Cultivated plants in a garden or non-native animals at the zoo won’t be counted as observations for City Nature Challenge.
To help identify observations:
Check your local library branch, nature center, park, zoo or aquarium to learn of events you can join during the City Nature Challenge weekend to log observations with others! Here are a few options to get you started:
Woodland Park Zoo
We encourage you to come to Woodland Park Zoo and help us contribute observations of the diverse native animals – such as birds and insects – that frequent our zoo grounds!
www.zoo.org/visit
Pt. Defiance Park Bioblitz
April 27-28, 2:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA
https://www.pdza.org/citizen-science
All volunteer shifts full!
SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve Bioblitz
April 28, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Explore the Nature Preserve, spot wildlife, and record your sightings at SHADOW’s first Bioblitz.
http://shadowhabitat.org/activity/shadow-lake-nature-preserve-bio-blitz/
Seattle Public Libraries
Wallingford Branch
Saturday, April 28, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Woodland Park Zoo staff will be available to show you how to use the app and get you started logging observations of local animals and plants!
More info here: https://www.spl.org/event-calendar
Green Lake Branch
Saturday, April 28, 11:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Let’s get wild! Meet at the Green Lake Library to explore and observe wildlife at the park as part of the City Nature Challenge.
More info here!: https://www.spl.org/event-calendar
Seward Park Bioblitz
Sunday, April 29, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Info and RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seward-park-bioblitz-tickets-45067561289
City Nature Challenge Education Toolkit
Are you a teacher or an educator?
Here’s a toolkit just for you!
http://citynaturechallenge.org/education-toolkit/
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