City Nature Challenge: the results are in!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped organize, participated in, and identified observations from the 6th annual City Nature Challenge! Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, internationally over 10,000 more people participated compared to last year, and for the first time ever, there were over one million observations in the four days of the challenge!

Here are the collective results:
Observations: 1,270,767
Species: 45,300+, including more than 2,100 rare/endangered/threatened species
Observers: 52,777
Most-observed species globally: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Here in Surrey, our results were:
3,869 observations (2,607 in 2020)
595 species (560 in 2020)
94 observers (87 in 2020)
318 Identifiers (296 in 2020)

Although it wasn't a competition this year, we HAVE TO point out that for just our second time doing the CNC we were once again in the top 5 for observations in Canada! What an amazing community of nature-appreciating folks we have! An enormous THANK YOU to all of you! And a special shout-out to our top...
Observers: @johndreynolds, @david_dyck, @deboraobrist, @culturenaturewildlife, @fylin, @emilyln, @tkavs, @drclements, @northvandad

Since you can't click the links in the infographic, here are some of the interesting observations from around the world:
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Lixus placidus weevil
Turkish Snail (Helix lucorum)
Witches’ Cauldron (Sarcosoma globosum)
Blainville’s Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii)
Purplish-backed Jay (Cyanocorax beecheii)
Sargassumfish (Histrio histrio)
Southern Lion (Panthera leo ssp. melanochaita)
Common Giant Flying Squirrel (Petaurista philippensis)
Euglossa macrorhyncha bee
Adelpha zea butterfly
Short-clubbed Wasp Orchid (Chiloglottis reflexa)

The City Nature Challenge also contributed to the most observations uploaded in a week on iNaturalist again - and also gave iNaturalist the first two weeks ever with over one million observations uploaded!

Thanks everyone! Continue to help IDing those CNC observations - it takes a while to get through them! We're looking forward to CNC 2022!

Posted on May 13, 2021 02:50 PM by surrey-bc_biodiversity