Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicagoland Region

Awesome to see all the observations pour in over this (rainy and cold, per uszh) City Nature Challenge weekend! Over the next week, we'll have time to add identifications and upload any remaining observations. Results will be announced on Monday, May 8th.

One thing that is helpful is to add a fave/star to cool observations. That will help us find them and share with the international organizers and potentially land managers/researchers/the media. The fave button is each individual observation, underneath the map.

Tonight at 6PM - hope to see some of you at the iNaturalist event at Metropolitan Brewing! More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/id-the-birds-bees-with-isc-city-nature-challenge-tickets-537806773537

Collectively between April 28th and May 1st, 2023, 700 participants made 8,400 observations of 1,300 species in the Chicagoland Region!

See everything we found here https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-chicagoland-region?tab=stats

and help out with identification here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=city-nature-challenge-2023-chicagoland-region

Internationally, we collectively made over 1.8 million observations of nearly 60,000 species, 2,500 of which are listed as rare, threatened, or endangered. A total of 66,000 people made observations!

Check out all the observations globally here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023