City Nature Challenge 2023: Winnipeg Region, MB, Canada's Boletim

Our group had an enjoyable time looking for wild things in and around Selkirk - Little Lake Park was particularly productive. Got a few more of our Friday uploaded included the Short eared owl!

Hope Monday is good to you. Remember that the event includes Monday until midnight.

That was a pretty windy four days. Bird migration was a much bigger presence in this years local event - I think we caught the beginning of the waterfowl movement together with the earliest of the perching birds. Active insects were much harder to find. The day after the observation period ended we found a tiger beetle emergence event which would have been great to see in the observations - well we will know what to look for next year.

Over 1.6 million observations worldwide collected in this years event and during the CNC, iNaturalist hit 10 million observations in Canada!

Two more days to upload observations and contribute identifications for them to be included in the official counts. I will post the results in the journal once I have them.

Thanks to you all!

This marks three years in a row we've made more than one million observations in four days. No matter whether you made one or many observations you can take pride in that accomplishment. Next year’s City Nature Challenge: April 27-30, 2024 – put it on your calendar!

The official results are built from a snapshot of all the data collected in iNaturalist as of May 8th 9am local time for each project. As time goes on, more observations collected within the study period may be added and new identifications made. This will change the stats you see when you look at any of the projects - this is a good thing .

Here are the collective results:

Observations: 1,870,763
Species: 57,227+, including more than 2,570 rare/endangered/threatened species
Observers: 66,394
Most-observed species globally: Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)

And congratulations to our “top” cities: