Welcome to WildCAM! Please read the following info!

This is the citizen science portal for WildCAM (Wildlife Cameras for Adaptive Management). We encourage anyone using camera traps in British Columbia or Alberta to join WildCAM (www.wildcams.ca) and submit their photos of wildlife in western Canada.

Before you add your photos to the WildCAM project, please note the following information:

Multiple photos of the same event and individual are considered to be a single observation and should be combined when uploading photos.

Similarly, for large batches of photos from the same camera station, make sure you combine photos into single observations, where appropriate. Generally, photos of the same species at the same camera station are considered to be separate observations when they occur at least 30 minutes apart.

The date and time of each camera trap photo should be automatically filled in when you upload them. If this does not occur, please manually add this information from the photo timestamps.

We ask that you try to fill out as many of the fields as possible when submitting observations (e.g. habitat type, camera height, model, etc).

If you'd like your photos to be part of ongoing or future research projects, please get in touch so we can let you know what information is important for you to collect when you set up your camera(s). We are currently developing a datasheet to highlight which data should be recorded when setting up camera traps which we will post here in the coming weeks. Check back for updates and stay tuned!!

For questions about using iNaturalist, please refer the help page (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help). For information about WildCAM, contact info@wildcams.ca or send us a message via iNaturalist.

Posted on April 5, 2020 12:25 AM by alys_g