City Nature Challenge 2021: North East England Results Details
Here’s a little more detail on the final City Nature Challenge results for our area, North East England.
Throughout the recording days nbrodin and jmcommon were neck and neck for gaining the top spot for making the most observations. In the end nbrodin came out top with a fantastic set of 321 records, but jmcommon gained top place for most species recorded with a whopping 262! We must also credit bumble_being for putting in a serious shift helping to identify species and completing the most at 254 identifications! Top work all three of you but also to everyone who took part and submitted even one record!
From the map, you can see we had pretty good coverage of the area.
Nicola35 collected some records right up on the Scottish border, whilst sianeileen was out recording along the North Yorkshire border. Over to the west, right on the Cumbrian border duncan34 was contributing and we had much more coastal representation this year all down the east coast.
Nicola35 even sent in photos and records from a dive beneath the waves of the sea! In case you didn’t know, the border for our region extends 10km out into the North Sea, so, thinking ahead...does anybody know any boat-going sea fishermen who could help us out next year? Or more scuba divers?
We got records from all the main groups of organisms apart from reptiles, which is hardly surprising given the cold weather. Plants were the most widely recorded group and the species that got the most records overall, was Lesser Celandine.
It was nice to get several sound records of various birds singing. Being able to record bird song and other sounds is a great feature of the iNaturalist app.
Fungi gained some records and one of the most interesting was the Beech Woodwart spotted by lazza who also put in great effort for the challenge.
Invertebrates seemed few and far between for the time of year. Again this was probably due to the cold weather we were experiencing. Quite a few slugs and snails were recorded and a special shout out to kathryndt for doing some river sampling and spotting a mayfly larva!
Mammals and amphibians were spotted or signs of their presence. Did you know, feather, fur, poo and other signs can still count as a record as they provide evidence of the presence of a particular species?
There are plenty of photos to look at and I would urge you to have a browse around the results to see some of the wonderful wildlife in our area. For example, duncan34 got a great camera trap shot of a fox, tracy-ann63 got a super snap of a Red Kite as well as a lovely Roe Deer.
Have a look too at the results from around the globe too. It’s wonderful to consider that we were part of a world-wide effort to explore, spot and record the amazing wildlife to be found around the world.
Thank you once again for participating. It’s absolutely fantastic to know you are out there caring about nature and wildlife. If you missed participating in the CNC this year, then block out your diary for the end of April/beginning of May next year and we’ll see you there!
A MASSIVE THANK YOU once again to everyone who joined in!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021-north-east-england
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2021
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How about getting Billy Shiels to contribute next year. Their boats are out around the Farne Islands from Seahouses every day!
That's a great idea vkent! Thanks!
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