Thank You! -- Closing Thoughts

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that participated in this bioblitz! There were some incredible observations made, and I was really impressed with the turn-out! It was a true pleasure getting to meet some of the top naturalists in the Houston area and to learn about some of your experiences with nature. I learned so much about the wildlife in this region and had a blast doing it, so thank you all again for making this possible! Hope y'all had fun as well!

Looks like most observations have been uploaded at this time, so I will begin identifying plant species with the refuge botanist later today. He's been familiar with the plants on the Mid-Coast refuges for the last 20 years, so we are very thankful to have his guidance. Unfortunately, the refuge doesn't have an entomologist so I'm asking you guys to help one last time in identifying insects! :)

We had a large number of insect observations (41.6%), now let's try and get the correct identifications for all these species to boost our research-grade observations for the project. Only identify the species if you are comfortable doing so. It's okay if you don't know, there's bound to be someone who will.

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-We reached 1,500+ observations with 526 species (and still counting!), WOOOOW!

-Over 200 people contributed (including identifiers)

-We nearly doubled the observation count at San Bernard in a single weekend

-We added at least 200 new species to the San Bernard iNaturalist page

-Overall, bioblitz was a great success! Thank you all!

Hope to meet some of you again. Let me know if you hear of any other bioblitz coming up in the future, I'd love to help!

Posted on August 13, 2020 05:23 PM by katittle