People of #Sheffield... let's all do the #BioBlitz on 24 to 27 April... and see how many species we can record...

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1/2 Letošní City Nature Challenge proběhne za necelý měsíc. A sice ve dnech 24. až 27. 4. V rámci ČR se vedle Prahy zapojilo opět Brno, Uherské Hradiště, Č. Budějovice, Veselsko a Ostrava. A nově i Olomouc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Ut... #citynaturechallenge #citizenscience #bioblitz #inaturalist

City Nature Challenge Olomouc ...

How College Students helped me find thousands of species

One of the first emails I ever sent from Learn Adventurously was for our BioBlitz in 2022.In case you missed it, I ran an international competition encouraging anyone to pull out their phone and record biodiversity to iNaturalist. The twist is that I gamified the observations based on a point system from my undergraduate field herpetology course.I wasn’t expecting how popular it would be.In 2022, we had over 200 observers record 10,000 observations spanning over 2700 species!That […]

https://learnadv.com/events/how-college-students-helped-me-find-thousands-of-species/

Biodiversity in your city june 2021

contest winners Previous Next What was this project? Through June of 2021, we challenged anyone with a cell phone connection to document biodiversity all over the world. We accomplished this through a community project on iNaturalist.com, a website and application where users can document biodiversity for science. By using a free and open platform we were able to document over 8500 observations, of over 2600 species from all over the globe. View more observations from […]

https://learnadv.com/events/biodiversity-in-your-city-june-2021/

Unfortunately, we're in a pretty deep cold snap and snow for a couple of weeks. I'm itching to get out, but it's a bad time to spot anything new on the ground, and I don't think much will be growing except crust and jelly fungi until the next warm spell. However, I found out a winter mycoblitz was happening and managed to pick and dry a few specimens to send in. I enjoy nature but don't have a science background, so I can only hope I did things properly and that they'll be able to sequence some DNA from them.

The first is an interesting cluster of white waxcap-looking mushrooms that I found growing in leaf litter under hardwoods. My first thought was Hygrophorus eburneus, cowboy's handkerchief, though the tops were merely sticky instead of slimy; or else Hygrophorus sordidus. Perhaps I'm wrong and they're not waxcaps at all, but I really hope DNA will solve the mystery. None of my online mushroom connections seem to have any more confident input.

For the second, I managed to swipe another of the tiny earthstar specimens from under the snow. I hope it's not too old for DNA sampling..other people on iNaturalist think it could be four-rayed earthstar, Geastrum quadrifidum, after all, but we'll see. It's at least fun to give this a try. #nature #fungi #mushroom #mushrooms #mycoblitz #bioblitz #mycology

Tiu (#Passer domesticus) House Sparrow standing on a fence post.

Usually I don't like these chirpy rapey bastards but this one was standing quietly for the moment. Fairly good colour contrast and I managed to get a few snaps off.

Submitted for the iNaturalist Southern Hemisphere Bio Blitz, even though I'm (sadly) pushing Tiu all the way up the species leaderboard.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/322922413

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