City Nature Challenge 2024: Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area [Observe or ID]

If you are (or will be) in the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan area this weekend, you might join and post to the City Nature Challenge. We know you "see" bees--but please, let's help get the native bees noticed and overwhelm the honey bee posts by others!

- - - - - - APR 26, 2024 - APR 29, 2024 - - - - - -

"Help the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area (including Everett, Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma and any place within Snohomish, King and Pierce counties!) show the world how biodiverse our region is by making as many observations of as many species as possible during the 2024 City Nature Challenge, April 26 - April 29!

In 2023, 482 cities motivated more than 66,300 people to upload more than 1.87 million observations of nature to iNaturalist in the four days of the City Nature Challenge..."

To join find the project here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-seattle-tacoma-metropolitan-area
(More details in the journal there too.)

Woodland Park Zoo has more information:
https://www.zoo.org/conservation/naturechallenge

• - - - - - FOLLOW UP --> IDENTIFY SPECIES OBSERVED --> by May 5th!

If you are up to another challenge, everyone there and the rest of us outside the project area could pitch in to help identify what they find. Please remember too only ID the things you know, and use a higher level, even adding Plants or Insects or Bees is a useful.

There is a Identify how-to Vimeo here:
https://vimeo.com/246153496

It is worth checking out the video:
I just learned there are shortcuts for doing IDs. Click Shift + ? to see these on a page in iNat:
I > Identify
C > Comment
A > Agree
X > captive/cultivated
Z > Zoom
--> <-- Arrows move forward or back in [Identify] mode

Adding [Annotations] builds the charts on the taxon pages--

Using Annotations please add details like an insects sex and lifestage or if a plant is flowering or fruiting and more. This is something you may click to add on anyone's observations anywhere in the world.

You may have noticed that we have been putting more of these on your pages already. It will make our WA native bee data more scientific and useful. Thank you to the identifiers out here that have picked up on this already.

Publicerat 24 april 2024 00.57 av wenatcheeb