Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro

04 de diciembre de 2022

Reminder of our upcoming organizers meeting!

Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicagoland Region. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 28th through May 1st, 2023. Save the dates!

Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 10AM Central
via Zoom

To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will send you the meeting link.

Other links:

Thinking of planning an event?
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, we will be collecting all events and displaying them on our regional hub. Example events include:

  • bioblitz
  • guided nature hikes
  • iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
  • virtual identification party or nature storytelling
  • sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
  • learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
  • urban nature trivia Zoom
Publicado el diciembre 4, 2022 04:39 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

20 de octubre de 2022

Join the Chicago region City Nature Challenge team

Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicago Region. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 28th through May 1st, 2023. Save the dates!

Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 10AM Central
via Zoom

To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will reach out with additional information closer to the date.

Other links:

Thinking of planning an event?
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, we will be collecting all events and displaying them on our regional hub. Example events include:

  • bioblitz
  • guided nature hikes
  • iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
  • virtual identification party or nature storytelling
  • sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
  • learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
  • urban nature trivia Zoom
Publicado el octubre 20, 2022 04:40 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

09 de mayo de 2022

City Nature Challenge 2022 wraps up

The City Nature Challenge 2022 has come to a close!

Infographic text:
City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro
Powered by iNaturalist
Between April 29th and May 2nd, 2022:
over 9,200 observations
pver 1,300 species
over 800 observers
over 500 identifiers

photo of marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) @dannl (CC BY-NC)
photo of blue-grey gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) @randall228 (CC BY-NC)

Most-observed:
Animal: red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), Ben Zerante @benzerante (CC BY-NC)
Fungus: dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus), A. J. Kishta @akishta @CC BY-NC)
Plant: lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), Mike B. @taco2000 (CC BY-SA)

photo of great blue heron (Ardea herodias) eating American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), @kitundu (C) used with permission

Graphic by cassi saari @bouteloua
See everything we found at https://bit.ly/cnc2022

Logos: City Nature Challenge 2022, California Academy of Sciences, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Chicago Park District, Chicago Wilderness, Budburst: a project of the Chicago Botanic Garden, Shedd Aquarium, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Ornithological Society, Northeast Chapter of the Illinois Native Plant Society, Illinois Science Council

View the most-faved photos for the Chicago Metro area: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?order_by=votes&place_id=any&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2022-chicago-metro&verifiable=any

And see the global collective results across 445 cities below:

The identification process continues! See how you can help here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-chicago-metro/journal/65266 (no expertise required).

If you or your organization are interested in helping organizing locally next time, reach out at cassi.saari@chicagoparkdistrict.com and I will add you to our email list.

see you around iNat!
—cassi / @bouteloua

Publicado el mayo 9, 2022 09:15 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

03 de mayo de 2022

Identify time!

Time to identify City Nature Challenge observations! Results will be announced Monday, May 9th.

Did you know that anyone can help with identification on iNaturalist?

No formal training or expertise is needed because even sorting observations into very general categories like "plant" or "frog" can be super helpful! Globally there are currently 304,162 observations that don't have any label at all. Can you help out?

Some stats:

May 3rd May 4th May 5th May 6th May 7th May 8th Identify link
City Nature Challenge 2022 Chicago Metro observations with no ID at all 437 observations 308 observations 229 observations 125 observations 90 observations 59 observations help identify
Observations with no ID globally all-time 304,162 observations 296,938 observations 291,698 observations 282,951 observations 282,119 observations 273,499 observations help identify
CNC2022Chi all "Needs ID" observations 4,680 observations 4,208 observations 4,101 observations 3,924 observations 3,844 observations 3,706 observations help identify
CNC2022Chi observations at rank "order" or coarser 363 observations 377 observations 403 observations 427 observations 438 observations 395 observations help identify
CNC2022Chi underlooked captive/cultivated plants at rank genus or coarser 226 observations 271 observations 291 observations 303 observations 302 observations 315 observations help identify

Tutorial

Learn more about using the Identify page in this quick video:

Other ways to help

Not so interested in identifying? How about marking whether a plant is budding, flowering, or fruiting, or if an observation is of an egg, larva, or adult? There are a ton of other ideas listed here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ways-to-help-out-on-inat-wiki/1983

Publicado el mayo 3, 2022 12:53 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 6 comentarios | Deja un comentario

01 de mayo de 2022

Chicago Metro Hitlist

What haven't we found yet that we found in previous CNC years?

For birds, we've previously documented common gallinule, long-billed dowitcher, fox sparrow, ovenbird, pectoral sandpiper, and warbling vireo, but none of those yet (and others) yet in 2022. New to the Chicago Metro Region during the CNC period so far are marbled godwits, American woodcocks, semipalmated plovers, and hooded warblers - i.e. those species were not added to iNat during the CNC period in prior years. In 2022, no green frog, snapping turtle, leopard frog, chorus frog yet - it's a bit chilly so they're probably hiding!

You can play around with changing the taxon_id number and sorting the columns on the right side of this Compare tool to see other new/missing species. It's currently showing vertebrates, but you would change the number at the end of each URL to, for example, 40151 to look at just mammals. Note that everything has to be divided into groups that have fewer than 500 taxa in the search results, due to the limitations of the Compare tool. Learn even more about search URLs here.


Semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) observed by @breanddave at Rainbow Beach Dunes in Cook County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113943488

New to iNat in the Chicago Metro during CNC 2022

Sort by the "before CNC2022" column to find species we haven't observed yet and the "during CNC2022" for those newly observed in the Chicago metro region on iNaturalist in 2022. These aren't necessarily totally newly documented for the region, just the first time they've ever been added to iNaturalist for the region (still cool!). I've excluded casual observations here.

Plants

Fungi

Animals

Etc.

  • Other life (viruses, bacteria, slime molds, etc.)

You'll sometimes find species on here that are the result of computer vision errors and other misidentifications as well as observations that should be marked captive/cultivated. Fixing these helps sort the wheat from the chaff and keeps range maps representative of wild organisms.

Check back on these links later as new observations and identifications continue to come in.

Publicado el mayo 1, 2022 03:54 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

29 de abril de 2022

City Nature Challenge 2022 begins!

And we're off! The City Nature Challenge began last night at midnight and will run 4 days through Monday, May 2nd at midnight.

Track what we're finding here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-chicago-metro

Check out these Frequently Asked Questions: https://citynaturechallenge.org/cnc-faqs-page/ and feel free to use this journal post as a place to ask/answer questions.

Publicado el abril 29, 2022 12:14 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

29 de marzo de 2022

City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro Events

See full event details on the CNC Chicago Wilderness webpage. If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, please fill out this form by April 15th.

This list is actively being updated with new events.

All times are local time unless otherwise indicated.

Monday, April 25th

6:00PM-6:45PM Central: Illinois Science Council's Talk and Walk, City Nature Challenge (virtual)

Tuesday, April 26th

7:00PM Central (6:00PM Mountain): iNaturalist MasterClass: Making Science-Worthy Observations (virtual)

Friday, April 29th

10:00AM-11:00AM: City Nature Challenge Hike at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve (Illinois-Kane)
1:00PM-3:00PM: Roosevelt University Schaumburg Bioblitz (Illinois-Cook)
6:00PM-7:00PM: Bioblitz 101 - Kickoff and Introduction (virtual)

Saturday, April 30th

7:30AM-10:30AM: City Nature Challenge Walk at Bemis Woods North (Illinois-Cook)
8:00AM-10:00AM: Spring Early Birds at North Park Village Nature Center (Illinois-Cook)
9:30AM-11:00AM: Walk at Kankakee Sands' Conrad Station Savanna Trail (Indiana-Newton)
10:30AM-11:30AM: City Nature Challenge at Burnham Nature Sanctuary (Illinois-Cook)
10:00AM-2:00PM: 63rd St. Beach Clean-up and Bioblitz (Illinois-Cook)
11:00AM-2:00PM: Bioblitz at Lincoln Park Zoo's Nature Boardwalk (Illinois-Cook)
11:00AM-2:00PM: City Nature Challenge at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Illinois-Cook)
12:30PM-2:00PM: City Nature Challenge at Northerly Island (Illinois-Cook)
1:00PM-2:30PM: Intro to iNaturalist and City Nature Challenge at Indian Prairie Public Library (Illinois-DuPage)
1:00PM-3:00PM: UIC Eco-Educators BioBlitz at Jackson Park (Illinois-Cook)

Sunday, May 1st

7:30AM-10:00AM: Marian R. Byrnes Park Bird Walk (Illinois-Cook)
10:00AM-3:00PM: City Nature Challenge 2022 at Sand Ridge (Illinois-Cook)
11:00AM-2:00PM: City Nature Challenge at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Illinois-Cook)

Monday, May 2nd

No events currently listed

Monday, May 9th

6:00PM-7:00PM: Bioblitz Celebration and Wrap-up (virtual)

Learn more and RSVP at https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge

Publicado el marzo 29, 2022 06:53 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 6 comentarios | Deja un comentario

14 de marzo de 2022

Add your City Nature Challenge 2022 events here

If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, please fill out this form by April 15th.

We'll be posting the list of public events on the CNC: Chicago Metro website and this project page.

Examples:

  • socially distanced bioblitz
  • guided nature hikes
  • iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
  • virtual identification party or nature storytelling
  • sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
  • learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
  • urban nature trivia Zoom

We're also having monthly planning meetings on third Tuesdays at 10AM (next one is March 15th). Please reach out to me if you or a colleague might be interested in attending those, or comment below if you have any ideas for the Chicago region's CNC!

Again - here is the form where you can submit your event!

cassi / @bouteloua

Publicado el marzo 14, 2022 12:52 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

22 de noviembre de 2021

iNaturalist Trainings (November 2021)

On November 30th, the City Nature Challenge international organizers are holding iNaturalist trainings, two in English and one in Spanish.

These are geared toward City Nature Challenge regional organizers but I am sure they will be chock full of anything vital a new iNatter might need to know.

Some of the things they will cover are:

  • how to make observations with the app and through the website
  • how to add identifications, how to find places
  • how to make a project

You can sign up to attend a meeting here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EGXLr7ydtsPqCIT6H2WauREWNp7baax59a2cl86NANk/edit?usp=sharing

The sign-up spreadsheet includes other time zones and alternative ways to get to the Zoom meetings.

Here is the meeting information for attending:
30 November, 10AM Central (English)
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCc2wcBmiSKz_6JafY7SqpaMKhL3jVOCNcyAVR2HGKU/edit?usp=sharing
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88210261499

30 November, 4PM Central (Spanish)
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Knvf--z6GvaUF2MtM-l8boJYDThz1pbLM-seEmFUp8c/edit?usp=sharing
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84505391330?pwd=bjl0SXdqZXZ0WTRCVUZJYkhZQlM5QT09

30 November, 6PM Central (English)
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18R-OI6jZDmGb2jWOCkP9K3fy6e2Sxs5H0xF_leax2Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83663133053

Publicado el noviembre 22, 2021 06:18 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

07 de septiembre de 2021

Help organize the City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro

Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2022: Chicago Metro. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 29th - May 2nd. Save the date!

Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
January 18th, 2022 at 10AM
via Zoom

To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will reach out with additional information closer to the date.

Other links:

Thinking of planning an event?
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicago Metro area, we will be collecting all events and displaying them on our regional hub. Example events include:

  • bioblitz
  • guided nature hikes
  • iNaturalist workshops/trainings (e.g. for beginners, how to add IDs, educator-focused, or advanced iNat usage)
  • virtual identification party or nature storytelling
  • sharing how your organization or research uses iNat data
  • learning about urban flora and fauna through iNat or Seek
  • urban nature trivia Zoom
Publicado el septiembre 7, 2021 07:55 TARDE por bouteloua bouteloua | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario