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  1. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    7000 animal taxa broken during the Ghana trip. According to iNat IDers, we accidentally got first ever iNat observations of two species in the process. While it's a completely random occurrence (we had no idea what we were looking at), it makes me feel groundbreaking :) A lot of things will...
  2. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    The AI is, the users aren't :) It shows you with suggestions whether the species has been "seen nearby". Obviously this can be poisoned by enough misplaced observations, but it works pretty nicely.
  3. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    The main problem with the computer vision on iNat is the missing species - when you have similar species of which some are common and some are so rare that they don't get yet included, you necessarily get the common one. Also, it's AI, so it doesn't "understand" the ID - I am afraid that it can...
  4. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    Yep, walking around with extension tubes on my camera, I'd need the birds to come closer than about a meter and then I would only get the head at best. I do sometimes walk wound with two cameras nowadays, but it's not deeply comfortable. Also since I started mammalwatching I am seeing far less...
  5. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    I finally broke 6500 "species" (more exactly unique end taxa) of animals. At the same time I am missing only 6 invertebrates for them to overtake birds. I would not have thought that this is gonna happen so soon two years ago when we started with them, but there is simply a lot of diversity in...
  6. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    It depends. There are many arthropods that you can get to species - obviously butterflies, dragonflies, but many beetles, bugs, but also a lot of diptera, bees etc... so that would be a shame to not have. But I am certainly happy for every new end taxon, whatever the depth in the tree is -...
  7. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    What do you mean by spiders being impossible? I don't really know anything about them :) But iNat IDers have managed to give me 88 taxa (quite often not species, but still different leaves of the tree) in Europe, which is not that bad. It seems to me that many spiders can't be gotten beyond...
  8. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    We call it entomological speed. At the right part of the year in the right place it can be tens of meters per hour :)
  9. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    Btw. I am not sure if this isn't noted somewhere here, but the OP of this thread has THE MOST species of anything on iNaturalist :)
  10. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    We have 657 species of lepidoptera, the vast - and really, like 90% - majority of which I have no idea how to id :) This is where iNat really shines, a group that is huge, varied across the world but universally popular, there is always someone to ID. 114 odonata - of those I can ID the...
  11. opisska

    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    Well this is exactly what iNaturalist is for - I am actually not using it for a bird list strictly speaking, because I want to use a different taxonomy and have a significant amount of non-documented birds seen/heard, but for everything else, I would be totally lost if it weren't presenting me...
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