Diario del proyecto Macaulay Summer of Nature 2021

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02 de junio de 2021

Welcome Macaulay Team!

Hey folks! Let's show off the nature around us wherever we are this summer! All through June, July, and August, make iNaturalist observations and have them count towards this project. How many different species can we find? How far can we expand our map? What will be the most observed species? Let's find out!

Here's how to participate:

1 - Join the project (the Join button is in the project banner on the app and in the browser).
2 - Make observations wherever you are June 1, 2021 through August 31, 2021.

That's it! It's easy! The project will automatically collect all of your observations once you join. Please try to keep your observations to wild individuals (no pets, potted plants, landscaped plants, zoo animals, etc.), but if you do post those, be sure to mark them as "captive/cultivated."

I'll announce who our top observers and species finders are each month and we'll also have some mini challenges that I'll post about here. The first mini challenge will coincided with Pollinator Week later this month. You'll get updates about new posts in the Activity section of the app or via email (if you enabled that function in iNaturalist).

Don't forget that you can also observe close to (or inside) your home! Visit this page from the 2020 City Nature Challenge: NYC project: Stay at Home Scavenger Hunt.

Happy Observing!
Kelly

Publicado el junio 2, 2021 03:44 TARDE por klodonnell klodonnell | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

22 de junio de 2021

June Mini Challenge - Pollinator Week

Hey Macaulay Team!

June 21 - June 27 is Pollinator Week so for this month's mini challenge we'll be looking for pollinators! From now until June 27, see how many observations you can make of insects interacting with flowers. We'll accept any observations with an insect (or other animal pollinator) and a flower in them. This might end up including things that aren't actually involved in pollination, but we'll still accept them.

The NYC Pollinator Working Group is hosting a bunch of events this week and many of them feature friends of the BioBlitz and City Nature Challenge. You'll definitely be able to find pollinators if you join some of these. See their event list here.

NYC Parks is also hosting events. Check out there list here.

Results announced June 28 in the comments below and on our Slack. Remember that you can also still keep many ANY observations to be the June top observer and/or species finder! Good luck!

Publicado el junio 22, 2021 03:01 TARDE por klodonnell klodonnell | 1 comentario | Deja un comentario

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