City Nature Challenge - Day 1
We're 23 hours into the City Nature Challenge, and it's been a great first day! Aside from one very brief early morning surge from Hong Kong, we've been at the top of the leaderboard all day, maintaining a steady lead. However, dawn is breaking on the east coast of the Americas, so we'll need to get back to work tomorrow!
As of about 11:00PM, we've tallied 2494 observations of 702 species from 93 observers, with identifications being provided by 87 iNaturalist.nz users - including some fantastic folks from out of town who are putting in a lot of work to help with the surge.
The three closest cities are:
Hong Kong: 1993 observations, 597 species, 165 observers - 4 hours behind us
Klang Valley (Kuala Lumpur): 1621 observations, 407 species, 121 observers - 4 hours behind us
Cape Town: 1576 observations, 373 species, 182 observers - 10 hours behind us
Hong Kong and Klang Valley (both with populations of over 7 million people!) were towards the top of the final leaderboard last year, with 20,000+ observations and around 700 observers each! So go us for keeping ahead of them on day 1!
In fact, our one-day tally would place us about midway up the final results board for last year's Challenge. And that's without all of the observations that folks made today that will be getting uploaded over the next 10 days.
This is so exciting! 😃
Keep up the awesome work, everyone, and spread the word. We have some real momentum going!
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