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City Nature Challenge: Get on iNaturalist!
Good morning everyone!
Just wanted to send out a call to arms for the City Nature Challenge, I was looking through the species reported and it's a pretty weak showing so far. Miami has only 372 species (of life: plants, animals, fungi etc) reported from April 14th-18th! Today is the last day to report observations so if you see anything at all that is alive in Miami-Dade County, post it on iNaturalist! It is very easy to use, you post a picture, the species you saw and the time and place you saw it (not that different from ebird). Anything you report in Miami-Dade County will automatically be added to our City Nature Challenge.
Only five warbler species have been reported so far (common yellowthroat, american redstart, northern waterthrush, pine warbler, and prairie warbler). We only have 1106 observations and 43 participants compared to San Francisco which has 16836 observations and 531 participants! Do your part to show the world how diverse Miami's flora and fauna is!
Here are the links where you can compare cities:
http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2017-miami
http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2017-san-francisco-bay-area
Post whatever you saw over the weekend! All you need is a picture. Yellow-throated warbler, black-throated blue etc if you saw any of these birds or any other warblers or other birds post them on iNat!
P.S. I don't have any affiliation with iNaturalist besides thinking it is a really great tool and just want to help Miami shine the way it should :D
Hope you can help
-Joseph Montes de Oca
Comments
Those numbers should increase once everything is entered. I assisted the folks from the county's Environmentally Endangered Lands program yesterday and today on some of their sites, documenting everything and my group had over 500 species. Although migratory birds were scarce, we had some other interesting sightings, including a coyote and a federally endangered butterfly. Today I managed to scratch-up 7 species of warblers in 3 locations. Shame this event wasn't held in fall or winter when we have many more bird species around.
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