Thank you to everyone who made observations during the City Nature Challenge. You are part of the global community of nearly 40,000 observers who participated in this worldwide Citizen Science project.
To explore the global observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020
There's still more to be done!
CNC ABQ needs your help to...
Finish uploading your observations
You have until Sunday night to upload any observations you made during the four-day observation period. If you took photos on your phone, you can upload them through the app. If you made observations using a camera, you can upload using the iNaturalist Upload page (
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload); we recommend watching this short video on how to best use iNaturalist’s Photo Uploader:
https://vimeo.com/167431843.
Help with identifications
In iNaturalist, go to your city’s project, click “Observations” and you’ll see an “Identify” button pop up just below it. Clicking this will take you to the iNaturalist Identify page and show you all of your city’s observations that still need to be identified. From this page, you can restrict what it shows you by taxon, which helps if you know how to ID certain groups. If you’re not an expert in any group, you can still help by identifying the “unknowns” - the observations with no IDs at all! Click the “Filters” button and then select the dashed-line leaf with a question mark in it. This will show you all the observations that are currently listed as “unknown.” It’s really helpful to go through these and add high-level IDs like “plants” or “insects” or “birds” or “fungi” - whatever you know about the organism - so people who do know how to ID these groups down to species can find them! Here’s a short video about using the Identify page:
https://vimeo.com/246153496
Mark observations as "not wild"
If you know you made observations of organisms that were not wild, but forgot to select "captive/cultivated" before uploading them, please do so now! Every observation has a "Data Quality Assessment" at the bottom of the page, one of the lines says "Organism is Wild." Once you've done that for your observations, you can also look through the other observations made in your city and help us out by doing the same: if you see an observation of something that is OBVIOUSLY not wild (a plant growing in a pot, a fish in a fish tank, a vegetable in a garden, etc.), then go ahead and click that thumbs down for "Organism is Wild!"
Thank you to everyone who participated!