City Nature Challenge 2020: Geelong's Boletim

Well done to everyone for a good day's effort. Great to see we lead in observation for a while and still do with total species. The list of species is looking very encoruaging. Of course with the time differences , we should see in the morning how the Western hemisphere cities who have been in the challenge before start have fared.

Lets see if our moth night can get a few more new species before retiring the night.
Tomorrow is another day to add the commons and starting thinking about some species we ought to have found in our backyards and local parks and reserves.

Cheers RodL

In the prelude to the City Nature Challenge, the Geelong Region project ran from 1st March to 22nd April and recorded 3248 observation, found 1150 species with 206 observers. At the start of day three of the CNC, we are now approaching the same level of iNat activity and maybe we will even surpass the lead up numbers (observations and species) during the today if the weather improves. Currently Geelong has 2810 observations, 912 species with 91 observers. Great effort!

Number of observers much lower as many of the Melbourne based naturalists who visited the area at the start of March are no longer able to do so due to the travel restrictions.

Cheers Rod

Tomorrow is the last day for observations to be made in the City Nature Challenge. For observations to be valid, photos will need to be date stamped with a time within CNC period. That is up to Monday midnight. Important that your camera time is accurate with AEST Time zone setting and not Summer time.

Valid observation may up uploaded for a further 6 days, however we ought to strive to have them in the iNaturalist system by end Wednesday latest. This will provide adequate time for the identifiers to finalise species Identification and resolve any technical issues.

Thank you all for your contribution and efforts in documenting our local biodiversity.

Currently we are second place in the Australian rankings behind Adelaide.

Good hunting for tomorrow.

Regards Rod