"The naturalist suffers a pleasant nuisance in not being able to walk a hundred yards without being fairly tied to the spot by some new & wondrous creature.” (Charles Darwin)

EN ⸱ Nature enthusiast since I'm a kid, I'm graduated from the National Museum of Natural History of Paris (evolution and systematics), for which I am curently working at the Conservatoire botanique national. Always glad to learn about all kinds of life forms, thanks for your IDs! My profile picture is the cute Linnaea borealis, named after Linné.

FR ⸱ Botaniste au Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, délégation Bourgogne, service du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.

Projects:
• PeregriNat, an 8 month naturalist trip around France
• Birding Big Year 2023 in France

Yearly stats:
2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019

Observations lists:

https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/matthieu_gauvain/30545-listes-d-observations

Observations heatmap:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?user_id=matthieu_gauvain#3/7.565/28.644

GBIF stats and graphs:

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/taxonomy?q=matthieu_gauvain

eBird profile: https://ebird.org/profile/MjkzMDkwOQ