City Nature Challenge 2024: Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Areas Dagbok

Hello everyone!
We are getting so excited for the 2024 Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge!

Globally, this will be the biggest CNC ever - there are 691 cities in 51 countries on all seven continents participating! Thank you for joining us and participating this year!

We hope to see you out at some of the fun events happening around our area over the CNC weekend. You can find those events listed here:
https://www.zoo.org/conservation/naturechallenge/events

If questions come up as you begin to participate, the best resource is this Frequently Asked Questions page on the global CNC page:
https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/faq

Here is a fun video that introduces the City Nature Challenge if you want to share this with your friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8w9kPreKs

And here are some local City Nature Challenge pages with further info and "how to" resources:
Woodland Park Zoo page: https://www.zoo.org/conservation/naturechallenge
Pt Defiance Zoo page: https://www.pdza.org/event/city-nature-challenge/
NW Trek page: https://www.nwtrek.org/event/city-nature-challenge/

We can wait to see what you find!

Cheers,
Katie on behalf of your Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge planning team

Your local planning team for the Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge includes:
Woodland Park Zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Habitat at Home Program, Green Tukwila / City of Tukwila, The Nature Conservancy in Washington, Washington Invasive Species Council, Washington State Department of Agriculture Pest Program.

Less than an hour to go to the start of City Nature Challenge 2024!

The global City Nature Challenge has officially started (as of 5am our time today, Thursday 4/25, which is midnight Friday 4/26 in New Zealand)!

If you're interested in seeing what's going on globally, you can check in on the live results at https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/live , which is the easiest way to see the total numbers since they had to divide into two umbrella projects this year:

North & South America
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-north-and-south-america

Eurasia, Africa, & Oceania
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-eurasia-africa-oceania

Have fun making your observations this weekend - stay safe, connect with nature and help us gain a better understanding of the biodiversity we have in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties!

We can't wait to see what we all find out there!

We'll be looking for interesting observations to highlight both in some CNC infographics and in the results press release, so if you'd like to point our attention to a cool observation, add it in the chat here!

Thank you for your participation!

• Katie on behalf of your Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge planning team

Your local planning team for the Seattle-Tacoma City Nature Challenge includes:
Woodland Park Zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Habitat at Home Program, Green Tukwila / City of Tukwila, The Nature Conservancy in Washington, Washington Invasive Species Council, Washington State Department of Agriculture Pest Program.

Hello City Nature Challenge participants!

Despite the somewhat cold and blustery weather this weekend, you all are getting some amazing observations (and supporting one another with helpful identifications)!

Keep it up and have fun - push yourself to look closer, focus in on small things and find some species new to you in the last couple of days of City Nature Challenge!

Also see if you can get a couple of new people involved - can we bump up our number of observers, as well as our total observations and species?

Thanks for your participation!

• Katie on behalf of your Seattle-Tacoma CNC organizers