TUESDAY MORNING BLUES: and now what?

Well done Cape Town!

At present (9am SAST) the 2020 City Nature Challenge is over except for Hawaii.
The scoreboard at present is:
Observations:

1. Cape Town 31.1k
2. San Franscisco 28.5k
3. Houston-Galvaston 24.7k

Species:

1. Houston-Galveston 2,764
   2 San Francisco 2,595

2. Cape Town 2,548
3. Dallas/Fort Worth 2,231

Observers:

1. San Francisco 2,357
2. Los Angeles 1,495
3. Washington 1,444 (Cape Town #7: 997)

So very well done all. We posted a formidable target. And even though we were not allowed to leave our homes except for emergencies and shopping, we have recorded a formidable base of species in our gardens and streets across the city.

SO WHAT Next?
Time to start identifying! Are you willing and able to help?
Then please look at the following 2 minute turtorial of the Identification tool. https://vimeo.com/246153496

What needs to be done?
To get started, look at the tutorial and click this link
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual%2Cresearch&iconic_taxa=unknown&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2020-cape-town&place_id=any&page=5

1. Our first step is to process all observations without any identification at all. The aim is to post them to where our experts can get started working on them.
   So please post to: Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Lichens, Fungi. Insects & Spiders. BUT PLEASE, do not make an ID of Plants. Leave the plants for those who can recognize the different plant families as our experts work at family level. So if you recognize a Daisy, or Pea, or Grass, or Protea, or Orchid: that is cool make the IDs. Otherwise leave them unidentified.

2. NOTE: if we all go to this page, then we will all be doing the same thing. So notice in the url (the blue link) that it says "page 5" - please retype the "5" with a number of your choice (below 50) and click the "enter" key. You will then unlikely to be duplicating someone else's IDs.

That is our task for today. Reduce the unknowns and get IDs ready for the experts, specialists and dedicated Capetonians.

However,
1!. if you still have observations to upload, please make that your top priority
2!. If you are an expert in a group, then please feel free to type in your group in the "species" box of the identify page, and start working on those immediately. We will refine the url tomorrow, but today it is a matter of checking the IDs that have been made during the rush and excitement of uploading - and checking that American names have not been incorrectly given to our plants and animals by the AI.

Good luck.
Tomorrow at 11am, we will have a webinar for those with problems or issues. More details later.
Otherwise please feel free to ask questions below.

Posted on 28 de abril de 2020, 08:40 AM by tonyrebelo