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
- Non-flowering plants
- Poales (grasses, sedges, rushes, and friends)
- Monocots excluding Poales
- Apiales (carrots and friends)
- Asterales (sunflowers and friends)
- Boraginales (borages and friends)
- Brassicales (mustards and friends)
- Caryophyllales (pinks and friends)
- Fabales (peas and friends)
- Fagales (beeches and friends)
- Gentianales (gentians and friends)
- Lamiales (mints and friends)
- Malpighiales (nances and friends)
- Ranunculales (buttercups and friends)
- Rosales (roses and friends)
- Solanales (tomatoes and friends)
- All other (eu)dicots except the groups above
Fungi
- Fungi without bacidiomycetes
- Basidiomycetes without Polyporales or Agaricales
- Agaricales
- Polyporales
Animals
- Birds
- Mammals
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Ray-finned fishes
- Coleoptera except Cucujiformia (beetles)
- Cucujiformia (cucujiform beetles)
- Hemiptera except Heteroptera (Hemiptera other than true bugs)
- Heteroptera (true bugs)
- Brachycera (brachyceran flies)
- Nematocera (nematoceran flies)
- Hymenoptera except Anthophila (ants, wasps, sawflies, excluding bees)
- Anthophila (bees)
- Papilionoidea (butterflies)
- Noctuoidea (owlet moths and friends)
- Bombycoidea (sphinx moths and friends)
- Geometroidea (geometer moths and friends)
- Pyraloidea (pyralid and crambid snout moths)
- Tortricoidea (tortricid leafroller moths and friends)
- Other moths than the groups listed above
- Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
- Insects except the groups above and below
- Arachnids
- All other 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.
