2022 monitoring season well underway!!
Hello to our 2022 Amphibian Monitoring volunteers!
We're excited that our 2022 monitoring season is well underway and your observations are rolling in! Thank you for your great observations, all of the details that you're providing in your notes, and your efforts to get good photographs!
We wanted to post a note here to our Project Curators and any others who engage in identifying our observations - thank you so much for helping with those IDs! To help all of us improve our own identification skills, it would be excellent if you can include Comments when you add an identification - please include a few notes about what characteristics you're focusing on to make your ID. Thanks so much!!
Also, either when you're adding a new observation or reviewing past observations, you can add the new Annotations to your observation ("alive or dead" and "life stage" in particular). Here's info on this new feature -
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/annotations
One of the coolest things is that, as more observations get Annotations, the iNat species page builds very cool phenology (timing) graphs. For example, here's the NW Salamander page - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/26747-Ambystoma-gracile (on the right hand side, click on the "Life Stage" tab of the graph.)
Cheers,
Katie
Woodland Park Zoo
Comments
Hi Katie- Please tell me if there is a way to view the list of project sites to compare current observations. For example- we on Cougar Mountain at the Klondike Marsh would like to know what is being seen 400 feet lower than our site, at Lewis Creek Park (which Sally L. and I have monitored in past years.) The only way I can check on this is to zoom out on the map and click on individual markers. The ability to view the current breeding activity observed at other sites would provide regional context and some insight into phenology of our target species. I'd like for current project members to be able to see observations sorted by date and location! Thanks!
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