Wow hats off to all you keeners out there already gathering observations on such a rainy day!
Here are some reminders as you begin collecting and adding observations:
• If you were out in the wee hours last night gathering owl calls or coyote yips, any observations collected at 12:01 am April 26 OUR TIME are valid as are observations collected by 11:59 pm April 29. Cool fact the CNC starts (and ends) FIRST in New Zealand and start (and ends) LAST in Hawaii.
• Any observations made within the City of Surrey boundary between April 26 and April 29 will automatically be added to our Surrey project and the broader Metro Vancouver Regional project– don't have to join the Surrey or Metro project to have your observations show up, and you don't need to add their observations to these projects to have them show up… you just need to make them and upload them to iNaturalist. *But joining individual projects is a nice way of showing direct support for your city :)
• All observations must be MADE between April 26 & April 29, but they can be uploaded later (but must be uploaded by May 6 at 9am OUR TIME to count)
• Identifications can happen throughout the full City Nature Challenge window, up until everyone's project results are pulled (they can keep happening afterwards of course, they just won’t count for the CNC!)
• PLEASE help us with data curation by:
o Marking non-wild organisms as captive/cultivated when making the observations, and
o If you see observations from our city that are clearly of captive or cultivated organisms, mark them as not wild in the Data Quality Assessment section of the observation – for others helping with identifications please do the same! *the Surrey CNC project is already set up to exclude humans, domestic dogs, domestic cats and most livestock. Please avoid adding house plants or captured images from your computer or TV.
• CNC central will pull every city’s or region's results on 6 May at 9AM our time – so whatever numbers (observations, species, identifiers, observers) are showing in our local project will be our final results. *Reminder for this year Surrey's data will be merged into the Metro Vancouver Regional project and added to national and international umbrella projects. If you want to track how we've done locally, check the Surrey CNC 2024 project, which we're running for local tracking and reporting purposes.
Woot, hats off to all those keeners out there already contributing , we're already at 46 observations and 33 species!
Here are some reminders as you begin collecting and adding observations:
• If you were out in the wee hours last night gathering owl calls or coyote yips, any observations collected at 12:01 am April 26 OUR TIME are valid as are observations collected by 11:59 pm April 29. Cool fact the CNC starts (and ends) FIRST in New Zealand and start (and ends) LAST in Hawaii.
• Any observations made within the City of Surrey boundary between April 26 and April 29 will automatically be added to our Surrey project and the broader Metro Vancouver Regional project– don't have to join the Surrey or Metro project to have your observations show up, and you don't need to add their observations to these projects to have them show up… you just need to make them and upload them to iNaturalist. *But joining individual projects is a nice way of showing direct support for your city :)
• All observations must be MADE between April 26 & April 29, but they can be uploaded later (but must be uploaded by May 6 at 9am OUR TIME to count)
• Identifications can happen throughout the full City Nature Challenge window, up until everyone's project results are pulled (they can keep happening afterwards of course, they just won’t count for the CNC!)
• PLEASE help us with data curation by:
o Marking non-wild organisms as captive/cultivated when making the observations, and
o If you see observations from our city that are clearly of captive or cultivated organisms, mark them as not wild in the Data Quality Assessment section of the observation – for others helping with identifications please do the same! *the Surrey CNC project is already set up to exclude humans, domestic dogs, domestic cats and most livestock. Please avoid adding house plants or captured images from your computer or TV.
• CNC central will pull every city’s or region's results on 6 May at 9AM our time – so whatever numbers (observations, species, identifiers, observers) are showing in our local project will be our final results. *Reminder for this year Surrey's data will be merged into the Metro Vancouver Regional project and added to national and international umbrella projects. If you want to track how we've done locally, check the Surrey CNC 2024 project, which we're running for local tracking and reporting purposes.
