Phase IIa Identifications.

Thank you everyone for helping with the huge Identification effort underway. If you can spare any time, please join in and help with identifications.

Special thanks to our heavy duty identifiers. You can see who they are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa?tab=identifiers

How far are we?

• We have 113,897 observations, submitted by 2,872 observers.
• We have 9,089 species - will we make 10,000 species??
• We have 1,156 identifiers, who have made 135,000 identifications. - we will need 227,000 identifications at a minimum to get all observations to Research Grade.

Of our 113,897 observations

• Some 855 observations have no media - these cannot be identified or verified. All have been commented on: please check that all your observations have media.
• Some 8,136 observations are planted or captive. - please remember to mark any observations as captive if necessary!
• Some 9,079 (8%) are not verifiable (this includes planted and medialess observations)
• Needs ID 75,199 (66%) - our goal is to get this below 30% by Sunday night.
• Research Grade: 29,697 (26%) observations - our goal is to get this to 66% by Sunday night.

So what now?

Please help with Identifications - Round 2:

Phase 1: Unknowns:
We need everyone to muck in here please. We need to move these 18,566 Unknown observations to family or lower level.

• Unknowns: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=any&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa&place_id=any&verifiable=true
• If you would like to focus on your city, then add it to the "place" box at the top of the filter.
  

Phase 2: IDs above family:
(You can filter further by adding your preferred group in the "search species" box.)
If you would like to focus on your city, then add it to the "place" box at the top of the filter.

• Plants: help ID plants to family or lower here
• Vertebrates: help ID birds, mammals, herps and fish to family or lower here

• Invertebrates: help ID Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs and Worms to family or lower here and
  Option help ID Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs and Worms without Moths to family or lower here

• Fungi : help ID Fungi and Lichens to family or lower here

Phase 3: Specialists.
Can specialists please start clearing your orders, families, tribes and genera.

1. Filter by adding your preferred group in the "search species" box
2. Remember when you get to the end of the batch, to mark all as "reviewed"
3. When done with all your taxa, please help clear the Phase 2 and 1 observations.
4. Here is your link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa&verifiable=true&place_id=any
5. At this stage we are only focusing on observations that need identification. Validation of observations already Research Grade can wait at this stage.

Good luck: summaries will be posted below, until we enter the next phase.
More details can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa/journal/93660-phase-ii-identifications

NOTE:

• Please Fave any observations that are worthy, for any reason you think it is special. These will tally to the Observation of the City Nature Challenge, at various levels. You can also Fave any that you might want to return to after the CNC. (Your Faved observations are available on your dashboard).

• Remember to mark any observations that are planted or captive by ticking the Captive-Cultivated box.
  
  (both of these can be done at the bottom of the Left Hand Panel.

• You can also add annotations, projects and observation fields on the Annotations Tab on the top of the Right Hand Panel.

The Deadline is Sunday night. So please muck in now!!

Publicado el 02 de mayo de 2024 a las 11:43 AM por tonyrebelo