Great job on the Observation Phase, on to the ID phase!

That was fun and exciting, and maybe a little exhausting, wasn't it? We had a great time documenting our biodiversity. There's so much wildlife in and around Philadelphia, and we thank you for helping us document it and holding our own against other cities around the world. We're almost at 17k observations, over 2k taxa (1870 ID'd all the way to species), and 945 observers. Can we get to 1000 observers and 2000 species?

@srall leads the Philadelphia observations total, and @conboy in species. Sara participated in both the NYC and Philadelphia CNCs. She's second in NYC and first in Philly. We've no idea how you manage to do this, Sara. We're very impressed and we thank you for joining us again this year. And Andrew, that's a really impressive species list. Well done!

While the observations phase might be done, it's time to ID all of the photos that we have in our project. And also upload any photos you still have.

To start IDing observations, from the project main page, click Observations and then Identify. Or go straight here. You can filter taxa by whatever you are good at IDing. Good at plants? Filter by Plants. Birds? Same thing. If you're not an expert at any particular taxon, no problem, help us ID all the 'unknown' observations. You don't need to ID them all to species. If an Unknown is a plant, you can apply the label plants and anyone who is looking at just plants will be able to find it and narrow it down further. Try to get as specific as you can though. If you think a plant is an oak, ID it as an oak.

Here are some links to help you get started IDing observationsthat are not ID'd to species yet:
Unknown observations
Plants
Fungi and lichen
Insects
Arachnids
Molluscs
Reptiles and Apmibians
Mammals
Birds

Happy identifying!

Posted on Μάιος 05, 2021 1226 ΜΜ by navin_sasikumar