Many thanks to #iNaturalist’s identifier Erikas Lutovinovas, who just ID’ed a few of my #Diptera observations. Turns out some are very rarely observed:
This has being causing quite a stir in the Singapore birding community. A King Bird-of-Paradise (Cicinnurus regius) spotted recently in the forest. Native to New Guinea, it is probably an escapee.
Wollt ihr mal sehen, was ich bisher 2023 bei #iNaturalist gemacht habe? Das Suchen und Bestimmen von Arten, auch ganz unauffälligen, macht einen Riesenspaß.
Zugleich ist es eine Art Trauerarbeit, um mit dem katastrophalen Rückgang der #Biodiversität zurechtzukommen: Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen dokumentiere ich, was noch da ist.
Viele meiner stümperhaften Bestimmungsversuche bei den Pilzen bleiben offen: Vermutlich gibt es nicht so Pilzkenner*innen in der Community.
An Anthophora curta napping on a rock by the beach in Isla Vista, in Santa Barbara, California, this past Summer 2023 while visiting UCSB. Its silvery colours and large green eyes are captivating. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173683325
I've recently discovered iNaturalist, an app and website for cataloguing living beings in the wild. You take a photo, upload it and identify it. It has automatic species/genus recognition/suggestions, life lists, and millions of photos and submissions from other users.
There's a great new feature on #iNaturalist that lets users decide which common names they'd like displayed across iNat. This overrides the language choice.
In Aotearoa-NZ, there was an awkward tension between users wanting to use #iNaturalistNZ in English, but see the default Māori common names. That's now easy to do.
Tony Iwane at iNat has written a post on the iNat Forum on how to do it. It's a new option in the Content & Display section of your Account Settings.