In between bioblitzes, every observation is still important.
If you join the Natural Values Atlas Tasmania project, all your observations will be added to the Tasmanian database as a record of the location of important species.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/natural-values-atlas-tasmania
Read more about the NVAT here:
https://www.naturalvaluesatlas.tas.gov.au/#HomePage
Well done GSB2024 Tasmania Team!
Final stats:
2421 observations
824 species
262 identifiers (thankyou!!)
149 observers
What were the most observed species? Who saw the most species? Explore all the stats at the project page:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania
The stats are looking good, now only 978 observations needing ID.
Revisit your own observations and see if you can ID them further, even if just a few levels. Sometimes changing something from "insects" to "beetles" or from "plants" to "solanums" will help attract an ID expert in that field to help out.
All IDs need to be finalised by 7 October to count in the official #GSB2024 results.
Here's a direct link to the 978 observations currently needing ID - there could be new ones uploaded since you last looked!
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania&quality_grade=needs_id
Explore the project stats here: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania?tab=stats
We still need ID help!
There are around 1000 observations that need ID to species level, or a second ID to make them "research grade." A bit over 500 of these are plants. So if you are good at plant ID please jump on and see if you can help out:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania&quality_grade=needs_id&iconic_taxa=Plantae
You can also use the "filter" button to choose other categories of organisms to focus on.
All IDs for #GSB2024 need to be finalised by 7 October. As a team, we've made great progress and now have more than half of all IDs completed.
If you're already looking forward to the next big bioBlitz, it's time to register for the global City Nature Challenge, happening in April 2025.
https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/about
GSB2024 Tasmania now has over 2100 observations, but over 1000 of these still need an ID to species level, or a second ID to reach "research grade."
Use the filter to choose categories you are most confident IDing. Ask nicely if you need more information about the observation.
All observations need to be uploaded and IDed by 7 October.
This link should take you to all observations that need ID:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania&quality_grade=needs_id
We've just passed the 2000 observations mark!
But if you know someone who was out on the weekend and took some photos of plants, animals and fungi, but didn't know about the BioBlitz, they can still upload and ID them until 7 October.
So long as the observation took place between Fri 20-Mon 23 Sep.
Now is a great time to look at the posts of others and help ID them as much as you can. Here's a link to the posts the need ID. You can filter these by mammals, birds, fungi, spiders etc.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-2024-tasmania&quality_grade=needs_id
Tassie is currently sitting at 22nd on the leaderboard, with some great international company!
Today is the last day to make observations - anything observed up until midnight will count, and they must be uploaded and IDed by 7 October (more on that later!)
Check out the international leaderboard here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2024-umbrella
Last weekend day, but Monday is still counted! Head out and take some more photos &/sound recordings of your neighbourhood diversity today.
At 8:30am, Tasmania has 870 observations of 427 species. There are 98 people who have generously IDed observations. And 82 observers (but only 25 have joined the project!). That's over 10 observations per observer, on average, with the leader having made 83 observations.
Want to see the biodiversity captured at Tamar NRM & Launceston Field Naturists BioBlitz day at Skemps? This link should take you there:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2024-09-20&d2=2024-09-22&nelat=-41.284965484891536&nelng=147.39529714521106&swlat=-41.30269957889564&swlng=147.33779058393176
Don't forget to upload your photos and sound recordings to iNat to make your observations count - iNat is a platform that values evidence based, community verified observation.
If you're in the north, @Tamar NRM is running a field day at Skemps, and tonight is Moth Night at home - more on that as it gets dark!
Please join the iNat project - it will put a "project badge" on all of your observations, for this weekend only. This helps raise awareness of the event. And invite your friends, family and foes!
