Guest Post: CNC Results and Wrap-up!

Greetings Washington DC Area CNC Community - the official results for the 2019 City Nature Challenge are in! On behalf of Carrie, Deborah, and the rest of the area planning team thank you for making this year’s Challenge such a success. The Washington DC area had 1,258 observers (5th internationally), we logged 29,944 observations (11th out of 159 cities) and we identified 2,031 species (15th internationally). Kudos to:

Observer @jmgconsult for most observations - 1,180
Observer @capitalnaturalist, Capital Naturalist Alonso Abugattas for most species - 431
...and Mayapples for being our region’s most observed plant species - followed by the American Robin for animal species.

It’s a big world and we had a lot of competitors. We should be proud of all of the discoveries and engagement that have been part of our CNC experience — and our place on the leaderboard. Everyone wins when citizens and scientists around the world are observing the natural world they are part of. The species need us.

Thank you for your participation.

Stella Tarnay (@stella20009)
Capital Nature
Washington Area Citizen Science Network

Posted on May 7, 2019 07:11 PM by dbarber dbarber

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Also thanks to everyone who helped with identifications of others' observations, with especially huge thanks to @tsn and @jmgconsult for their hundreds upon hundreds of ID's throughout the Challenge.

Posted by dbarber almost 5 years ago

The numbers from Washington DC were INCREDIBLE!!! That participation was crazy good! Well done. :)

Posted by sambiology almost 5 years ago

What a great effort, everyone! I'd like to thank the organizers both online and off, the cheerleaders, the information posters, and the people who helped with IDing. @tsn is always so helpful for that, and I really appreciate the time spent and information shared by him and everyone else who helped. And to everyone who participated! It's good to see that such an urban/suburban area still has so many people interested in nature. :-)

Posted by ashley_bradford almost 5 years ago

I'm so proud of our region's efforts! I'm especially glad this year for reaching further out into the suburbs where we have so much wildlife and wonderful protected areas. Well done, everyone.

@jmgconsult @capitalnaturalist and @stella20009, I was just wondering if you received any notification when you were tagged in the above post. (I'm trying to figure out if we have a bug in notifications for tagging in journal posts).

Posted by carrieseltzer almost 5 years ago

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