I'm an amateur photographer based in Porto, Portugal. Currently finishing my MSc thesis in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution.

Although my main interest are animals, since I joined iNaturalist I've gained interest in all living things (so I try to register everything I can lay my eyes upon).

Useful identification guides

I decided to put together a list of guides and databases that may help other users identify portuguese and european organisms. iNaturalist guides was a cool feature that created a good guide database, but has been "abandoned" in 2019.

• Portuguese flora (Portugal)
• Portuguese birds (Portugal)
• Insect orders (Portugal)
• Insects (World)
• Bird sounds (World) (You can use either the website or the app)

Glossaries

When you try to identify everything, the nomenclature can become a bit overwhelming, so here is a list of glossaries that may help you understand some terms.

• Botany glossary
• Entomological glossary and dictionary
• Moths glossary

Cool features on iNaturalist

iNaturalist is filled with cool features. Some are easily accessible on the website, but others are hidden or tricky to come across. So here is a list of features I find interesting.

• Your iNaturalist stats (replace the user ID with your own and the year with the year for which you want to check your stats)
• Heatmap of your observations (replace the "user id" with your own on the URL)
• View your ID stats (replace the "user id" with your own on the URL)
• Display observations that you identified (replace the "user id" with your own on the URL)

iNaturalist tutorials

Things that might help you take your iNaturalist experience to the next level

• How to work with search URLs
• How to use HTML tags to format text