Monday, 27 April 2020

Re: [cobirds] City Nature Challenge Colorado!

Hey CoBirders!

Today is the last day to take photos for the City Nature Challenge (11:59PM tonight!), but any photos that you have taken from Midnight Friday morning to tonight can be submitted over the next few days.  Please have all photos uploaded before Friday May 1 to be counted for the City Nature Challenge (CNC).

If you'd like to help but are unable to safely get outside, feel free to help with the identifications of all of the things that people observed.  Simply go to the project page and begin verifying or correcting ID's.  The period for identification is Tuesday through Friday, and all of the CNC winners will be announced Monday May 4.

Here's the project page links again:

Also, check out the main City Nature Challenge project page to see the world-wide results: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020

Beyond the City Nature Challenge, I'd like to encourage you all to use iNaturalist if you don't already do so.  I have found it to be fun and extremely informative over the past 6 years.  It's the perfect addition to all of my birding outings...  I always have my eBird list going, and am using my phone to take pictures of plants, bugs, birds (through my binoculars), etc. the whole time.  If I don't know the ID of a plant or a beetle, I just take a picture of it, submit it to iNaturalist (where the app often correctly identifies it for me) and users from all over the world work together to help me get an ID on it.

Thanks, and please reach out if you need help using iNaturalist!
Matt Webb

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:15 AM Matt Webb <matthewmichaelwebb@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll send out a follow up today
Matt

Sent from my ENIAC

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 9:52 AM Nicholas Komar <quetzal65@comcast.net> wrote:
Matt, you might want to let people know when the Challenge is over. Today right? And when images/sound files need to be uploaded in order to be included.  Thanks. 

Nick Komar
Fort Collins CO

On Apr 26, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Matt Webb <matthewmichaelwebb@gmail.com> wrote:


Hey all,

I just wanted to let you know about the City Nature Challenge, which is currently taking place on iNaturalist.  Over 300 Cities across the world are competing throughout this weekend to see who can submit the most observations of nature in their areas.  There are 3 different challenges taking place here in our state, one in Northern Colorado, one in the Denver-Boulder area, and one down south in Colorado Springs.

Full disclosure: I am coordinating the Northern Colorado effort.

Here's links to each iNaturalist project page where you can follow the action to see who is in the lead and what kinds of cool things are being seen and submitted!


You can learn more about the City Nature Challenge at their website here: https://citynaturechallenge.org/

I'd encourage those of you out birding to take lots of pictures of not just birds, but the plants, the bugs, the mammals, the bacteria... well everything!  And submit each to iNaturalist.  You can even submit sound recordings.  So do your part to help your locale compete against the likes of Capetown South Africa, and Tokyo, Japan!  Of course, if you do, do so in accordance with all of your local regulations and suggestions regarding the current global pandemic.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to learn more about how to use iNaturalist!

Thanks!
Matt Webb
Fort Collins, CO

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