Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2021: Ithaca NY

Good morning BioBlitzers - welcome to Day 2 of the global City Nature Challenge, Finger Lakes Edition. Yesterday was a good kickoff with 37 participants making 588 observations of 292 species. The rain and cold weather have provided us with a challenge, but with luck a few more species will emerge this weekend.

In addition to our local species count, check out the live updates to the global totals here -
https://citynaturechallenge.org/collective-results-2021/

And invite your friends, neighbors and family out into Nature this weekend to enjoy and help preserve our regional biodiversity!

Happy Last Day of the City Nature Challenge. We’ve had so many interesting and beautiful organisms documented – your enthusiasm has been terrific! As of Monday morning we have 129 observers documenting 643 species, among 2128 total observations.

Following the observation period – which ends tonight at midnight – May 4-9 is devoted to identifying species (and you can also still upload any observations made Apr30-May3 that you didn’t get to). Identification week is as important as the observation period. If you have expertise with a group of organisms please contribute a little more time helping our global community confirm the final species tally.

The FINAL totals for all cities will be announced on May 10.
Keep tabs on how everyone is doing here –
https://citynaturechallenge.org/collective-results-2021/

And notice that our Finger Lakes team has shown spirit far beyond our small size!
Congrats to all and thank you!
PS – make sure to check out the cool photos that our team has uploaded!

We’ve got four more days to finalize identifications & upload those last few observations. If you take a look at the global results page (https://citynaturechallenge.org/collective-results-2021/) you’ll see that more than 50,000 people participated and made more than one million observations. The event organizers are thrilled – conservation is finally achieving the status of a rock concert or sporting event (just a single event, but it’s a start). The organizers have also asked us to let them know if we found anything “interesting/unusual/fun” that they can highlight. If those of you who specialize in a particular taxon have noticed anything that might fit that criterion please let me know & I’ll send it along. As I’ve reviewed our team’s observations I remain amazed by the diversity of life that we’ve documented in the ITH/FLX area. You should all scroll through the observations – gorgeous birds, crazy fungi, incredible insects, a fox on a deck and a swimming beaver – just too cool. Again many, many thanks for your efforts!