Bummer! Looks like fun. We'll be down in MD for my niece's birthday. On Apr 25, 2018 2:30 PM, "Nancy Tognan" <nancy.tog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *City Nature Challenge - iNaturalist Competition – NYC vs 60 other cities > April 27-30* > The City University of NY (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College is organizing the > NYC arm of the City Nature Challenge. Over 60 cities throughout the world > are competing. See http://citynaturechallenge.org and > https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature- > challenge-2018-new-york-city. > > Challenge: Have as many people as possible make iNaturalist posts of > wildlife sightings in New York City between April 27-30, 2018. There are > four ways that NYC can “win” this competition: most total observations, > most verifiable observations, most species, and most people involved. > > Please note that I am not an organizer of this competition nor am I > affiliated with CUNY. I am attempting to assist the effort by asking > birders to each report a few sightings in order to boost our city's results. > > If you have never used iNaturalist but you are thinking about it, now > might be a good time to try it. Even if you don’t want to use it all the > time, you might find it helpful once in a while for recording the exact > location of something you might want to re-locate. If you have a > smartphone, you can download the app “iNaturalist”; if not, use the website > www.inaturalist.org > > To use iNaturalist, you need both an exact time and location of whatever > wildlife you have found - a plant, animal, fungus, slime mold, or other > evidence (scat, fur, tracks, shells, carcasses). If you can take a picture > or audio recording, you should do so, because without it, the observation > cannot be verified to become “research grade”. Unverifiable observations > will count for 3 of the competition categories, so it is still useful to > make them. > > > - If you use the app, it will automatically record the date/time, your > latitude/longitude, along with whatever photo you take with your cell > phone. Suggestion: If you take a long zoom picture with a non-cell-phone > camera, take a cell phone picture of the displayed photo in the back of > your camera. > - If you use the website: > - You may enter a sighting with a photo from any camera without > using the app. You would need to enter a time and location manually. > - Or if you used the app and posted no photo or a bad photo, you > can update your sighting with a better photo. > - However you make the entry, you need to make some guess as to the > species, family, or other grouping of the organism (“monarch butterfly”, > “insect”, etc.) > > You can read more about this at https://www.inaturalist. > org/pages/getting+started > > Nancy Tognan > VP, Queens County Bird Club > nancy.tog...@gmail.com > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
