So proud of you Surrey iNat community, let the identifying begin!

The pressure of the CNC blitz has ended and Surrey remains ranked 4th in Canada for observations at 2109! Now the grunt work begins of going through and uploading and identifying all your wonderful contributions. Some of our top observers and identifiers are working their way through all your submissions. Here are some tips and requests from the CNC project team before the final results are tabulated May 4th:

• If you still have photos you took during April 24-27 but haven't had a chance to upload them yet, now is the time, through May 3.
• It's also time to help with identifications! Remember, you don't have to be an expert to help ID. It is especially important to go through the "unknown"s and get them even to a coarse ID like "plants" or "beetles" or "fungi". This will help those working to ID down to species find those observations. Here is a short video on how to use the Identify Page on iNaturalist: https://vimeo.com/246153496
• As you're going through observations, PLEASE mark anything that looks captive/cultivated as such.
• Surrey will now the final results on May 4th - so stay tuned and we will share those with you through a journal post and likely through social media (follow Surrey on FB, Twitter or Instagram).

We're in the home stretch - almost done! Time to work on IDing and going through our observations this week. Then take some time to recover from the "CNC hangover" - which apparently is a real thing!

Posted on April 28, 2020 07:47 PM by surrey-bc_biodiversity