Get ready!

Starting tonight at midnight! Full details for all the City Nature Challenge: Chicago Wilderness Region events are here:

https://habitat2030.org/city-nature-challenge/

Several events have been added in the past few days. Participate on your own in your favorite nature spot or join one of the mini bioblitzes this weekend.

A couple tips for a long weekend of bioblitzing:

• I know you guys already have iNaturalist downloaded, but if you're attending an event with iNat newbies, let them know they should download the app before the event.
• Don't forget your extra camera, batteries, and/or portable phone charger.
• Water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, something for scale like a ruler or coin, what else?
• It's perfectly ok to post observations that don't have a photo. Especially important for birding and frogging! Just add all the other information--what you saw or heard, when, and where.
• Depending on your cell service and data plan, you may want to turn OFF auto-upload and upload the observations once you get back to wifi.
• Similarly, you may want to turn off the “Suggest Species” feature (though it’s pretty cool).
• Focus on wild organisms: if you do observe captive or planted things like pets, house plants, or garden plants, be sure to mark them as such.
• Look in a variety of places! Turn logs and rocks over (always put them back into place), look up, down, explore different types of habitat.
• Let your friends know they should check out iNaturalist.org when they get home since the website has much more info than the app.

Posted on Απρίλιος 26, 2018 0303 ΜΜ by bouteloua