We're not done yet!

THE CITY NATURE CHALLENGE ISN'T OVER YET! Thanks to the collective efforts of Utahns this weekend, we’ve surpassed 5K observations, and are on our way to identifying more than 800 different species living with us here in Northern Utah. Official global and local UT results for the CNC will be announced the week of 5/10, but there is still work to do! (1) Have photos from the weekend you haven’t uploaded yet? You have until 5/9/21 to get them on iNaturalist to count towards the 2021 CNC. Every observation helps! (2) Help make IDs and tell us about any exciting observations you come across! We need your help to look through the thousands of amazing observations made in UT. If you come across any first records, see a great photo, fun story, unique observation, or something piques your interest - post it in the comments here!

More details on how you can help:
-Finish uploading your April 30-May 3 observations-
As long as your photos were TAKEN April 30-May 3, 2021, then you can upload them through May 9 and have them count for the 2021 City Nature Challenge. 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 on your home computer; here is a short video with more info: https://vimeo.com/167431843

-Love the CNC? Have any CNC stories from this weekend? We'd love to hear it! Tell us in the comments section below.

-Help with Identifications through May 9th-
In the same way that anyone can be an observer, anyone can also help identify observations. Identifications are a crucial step to an observation becoming a research quality record. To get started, select "Observations" on our project page and then choose “Identify.” From this page, you can add various filters to your search, to explore groups of species you know a little bit about. If you’re not an expert in any group, you can still help by identifying the “unknowns” - the observations with no IDs at all! To do this, 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 is a video about using the Identify page: https://vimeo.com/246153496

No matter what, please only add an ID of which you can be reasonably sure - it’s fine if you don’t know what something is, and it’s fine to only add a genus or family or even kingdom level ID.

If you are interested, you can also expand your identification skills beyond Utah - to help ID observations made during the CNC worldwide (over 1.1 MILLION observations so far!) Here is the Identify page for the entire City Nature Challenge.

Thank you for your amazing observations over the weekend, and if you are able/interested, for helping to make these 2021 CNC observations research-quality data points.

Don't forget to tell us about any interesting observations you come across (e.g., first records, interesting photos, observations that were hard to get, one of your own you are proud of, etc.), or thoughts on the 2021 CNC by posting below!

-NHMU Citizen Science & the 2021 UT CNC Organizers

Publicado el mayo 5, 2021 05:09 TARDE por nhmucitsci