We reached the 1000 participant goal!
A huge huge thank you to everyone for participating this year. Getting to 1000 participants has been a goal of ours for 5 years now. We've danced around in the 900s in years past (not last year though, we only had 600 odd people participate due to the bad weather) without ever reaching that coveted 1k. I thought this year was going to be more of the same, but right now, we're sitting pretty at exactly 1000 participants.
Even though it's still not a competition, we can't help our competitive spirit. We're currently at 26th in observations, 23rd in species, and 14th in participants out of 690 odd cities around the world. You can see the full list at CNC Live Results. Only 3 cities that are north of us have more species than us, and they're all in Austria. Does anybody have any thoughts on why Austria does so well with species numbers?
But back to us, we have our highest ever numbers for species and participants this year. And I'm really proud of the community for stepping up and rising to the challenge.
You still have until 9 am Monday, the 6th to upload and ID all your observations, but it's better not to wait until the last moment. If you'd like to help us ID observations and increase our species count and our percentage of research grade observations, you can do so at this link.
Thanks again to everyone participating, whether it's observing or IDing or both!
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Thank you for all of your advocacy surrounding this event. I am grateful to all of you for promoting a better understanding of the natural world in Philadelphia! Kudos to the CNC24:GPA team!
I'm so proud of the Philly naturalist community! I can't wait to see where we end up, and where we can push ourselves to in the future :)
I'm new to the CNC this year, and relatively new to iNat, and I thank you for leading this effort! I'll be sure to spread the word further next year.
Thank you for organizing, Navin! @navin_sasikumar I look forward to it every year.
And of course today was the day I found 2 things that were still on your needed species list.
Thanks, everyone! While I might be the face of the CNC here on iNat, there's a whole group of volunteers (like @k_a_christopher above) who help make this a reality. A huge thank you to all of them as well.
@lmwp So glad to have you join us this year. And yes, please help us spread the word and get even more participants and species next year!
@bugsandbirds We always find species on our needs list the day after the CNC - like the Swainson's Warbler that showed up in the city yesterday! :)
So happy we reached 1000 folks this year! Great work, everyone, and thanks @navin_sasikumar for all your work!
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