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In support of this year’s City Nature Challenge, the BC Parks Foundation is running an iNaturalist contest. Participants can sign up on this online form with their iNaturalist handle and make at least one observation from now until May 1 to try and win a $100 Arc’teryx gift card.

Ignore the first instruction for the QR code (that was from post cards they were handing out this weekend). You can can also enter the contest after today as long as your observation is made between April 28 and May 1 (inclusive).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfduVrpP7AT5seKWCoyhlyyzY1JacceHu2Dr-jarGAPLbZYgA/viewform

Good luck!

In support of this year’s City Nature Challenge, the BC Parks Foundation is running an iNaturalist contest. Participants can sign up on this online form with their iNaturalist handle and make at least one observation from now until May 1 to try and win a $100 Arc’teryx gift card.

Ignore the first instruction for the QR code (that was from post cards they were handing out this weekend). You can can also enter the contest after today as long as your observation is made between April 28 and May 1 (inclusive).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfduVrpP7AT5seKWCoyhlyyzY1JacceHu2Dr-jarGAPLbZYgA/viewform

Good luck!

• 🌺We are now in the uploading and identification period. You all have until 9 am your local time on Monday, May 8th to get all your observations uploaded. You can upload any photos you took from April 28th - May 1st.
• 🌵 Be sure to remind everyone that we’re really hoping to document wild plants and animals, and if they did make observations of organisms they know are not wild, to please mark them as captive/cultivated (and as people work to identify observations, they can also mark anyone’s observation as not wild in the Data Quality Assessment section)
• 🌳 Surrey's results will be recorded as of 9am our time on Monday, May 8. The organizers at California Academy of Sciences will send out the full results and infographic around 2-3pm PT that day.

Get uploading and ID'ing!

• 🌺We are now in the uploading and identification period. You all have until 9 am your local time on Monday, May 8th to get all your observations uploaded. You can upload any photos you took from April 28th - May 1st.
• 🌵 Be sure to remind everyone that we’re really hoping to document wild plants and animals, and if they did make observations of organisms they know are not wild, to please mark them as captive/cultivated (and as people work to identify observations, they can also mark anyone’s observation as not wild in the Data Quality Assessment section)
• 🌳 Surrey's results will be recorded as of 9am our time on Monday, May 8. The organizers at California Academy of Sciences will send out the full results and infographic around 2-3pm PT that day.

Get uploading and ID'ing!

All of the City of Surrey's observations have now been added.

Way to go everyone! We're just shy of last year's numbers, but we also have lower casual observations which is great!

2022: OBSERVATION: 1,657, SPECIES: 410, IDENTIFIERS: 232, OBSERVERS:77
2023 (today's tally): OBSERVATIONS: 1,633, SPECIES: 409, IDENTIFIERS: 172, OBSERVERS: 70

One more day to go, let's see if we have any last minute adds tomorrow, and thank you to all the identifiers out there helping out.

All of the City of Surrey's observations have now been added.

Way to go everyone! We're just shy of last year's numbers, but we also have lower casual observations which is great!

2022: OBSERVATION: 1,657, SPECIES: 410, IDENTIFIERS: 232, OBSERVERS:77
2023 (today's tally): OBSERVATIONS: 1,633, SPECIES: 409, IDENTIFIERS: 172, OBSERVERS: 70

One more day to go, let's see if we have any last minute adds tomorrow, and thank you to all the identifiers out there helping out.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in Surrey's 4th annual City Nature Challenge. Your contributions pushed us over the top for the highest totals for a single city on the Lower Mainland, and surpassing observations from last year! More info on the Canadian umbrella project here:
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/city-nature-challenge-canada-2023-defi-nature-urbaine.

for international stats 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)

A special thanks to Surrey's 100+ 'iNatters'
david_dyck at 383 observations, 146 species
creature_librarian at 316 observations, 153 species
skesau at 157 observations, 88 species
sumeetg at 122 observations, 58 species.

And a special shout out to the almost 200 identifiers that helped get 53% of those 1804 observations to research grade. Just a reminder, if you have time, please see if you can help out with the remaining 804 observations in need of ID. Many of these are tantalizingly close to research grade!

On behalf of the City of Surrey, thank you for all your marathon community science efforts this past week, and over the years. Whether it was the ubiquitous salmonberry or the cryptic candy lichen, your observations continue to provide invaluable information on the state of our local biodiversity. I look forward to your ongoing observations, and stellar showing for the City Nature Challenge 2024, when the City's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy celebrates its tenth year!

With gratitude,
Pamela Zevit RPBio
Biodiversity Conservation Planner
City of Surrey

Congratulations to everyone who participated in Surrey's 4th annual City Nature Challenge. Your contributions pushed us over the top for the highest totals for a single city on the Lower Mainland, and surpassing observations from last year! More info on the Canadian umbrella project here:
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/city-nature-challenge-canada-2023-defi-nature-urbaine.

for international stats 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)

A special thanks to Surrey's 100+ 'iNatters'
david_dyck at 383 observations, 146 species
creature_librarian at 316 observations, 153 species
skesau at 157 observations, 88 species
sumeetg at 122 observations, 58 species.

And a special shout out to the almost 200 identifiers that helped get 53% of those 1804 observations to research grade. Just a reminder, if you have time, please see if you can help out with the remaining 804 observations in need of ID. Many of these are tantalizingly close to research grade!

On behalf of the City of Surrey, thank you for all your marathon community science efforts this past week, and over the years. Whether it was the ubiquitous salmonberry or the cryptic candy lichen, your observations continue to provide invaluable information on the state of our local biodiversity. I look forward to your ongoing observations, and stellar showing for the City Nature Challenge 2024, when the City's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy celebrates its tenth year!

With gratitude,
Pamela Zevit RPBio
Biodiversity Conservation Planner
City of Surrey