City Nature Challenge: SF vs LA starts tomorrow!
Starting tomorrow, Thursday, April 14, at 12 noon, the nature showdown begins! Help the San Francisco Bay Area #BeatLA by making iNaturalist observations in all 9 Bay Area counties (and out on the Bay itself, if you can get out there)! The counties that are part of the challenge are:
Marin / Sonoma / Napa / Solano / Contra Costa / Alameda / Santa Clara / San Mateo / San Francisco
Share your observations of plants and animals (and fungus and bacteria and ...) on iNaturalist, and as long as they're made within the Bay Area, they'll automatically be added to this project. Make observations in your backyard, your local parks, your school yards, on your walk to work, out on hikes... anywhere in the Bay Area!
The challenge will run until noon on Thursday, April 21.
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I love some good competition like this in the name of citizen science! :)
Hey @kestrel, can you post the link to the LA Project somewhere on this project page so folks can head over there and see how that one is going?
It's posted at the very end of the "About" section on the project page, but here it is as well: http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-l-a-vs-s-f
Oops, didn't see it. Thanks!
For those of you who are monitoring these projects and adding IDs, I just want to share a link that will help weed out some of the more obvious misidentifications: here's how you view a list of all taxa observed in a project:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/taxa?projects[]=6345&verifiable=any
You can do basically the same thing in the observations search, but this one is sorted taxonomically and I find it to be an easier way to notice obvious outliers. It doesn't help noticing observations that are misidentified as common species, though. If you want to do the same for our friends in the south, here's the same link for the LA observations:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/taxa?projects[]=6365&verifiable=any
Thanks for the links, Ken-ichi! Wish I was enough of an expert to know what would be an outlier in most groups. :) But hey, the SF Bay Area nudibranchs look a-okay!
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