Ugh, I hate that they demand I make an account. Why‽
Comment on but like seriously do try it
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Birdwatching: get and support the Merlin app. Its a great way to find out what birds live or pass through your area.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
What does it mean that this bird is “likely in 4 today”?
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
geese. geese are what pass through my area.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Same for iNaturalist for plants and fungi!
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
My immediate assumption is that any observations made by me are meaningless noise and that I should avoid making them unless I see something really weird. But that could also be a problem because then it looks like shiny Caterpie is really common in this area while the regular one is rare. Do you know what behavior the creators of the app prefer?
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I do not know, and I didn’t find much on their site other than a few good practices listed here: www.inaturalist.org/pages/community+guidelines
They do have a forum where etiquette questions come up, so that might be a good place to get a feel for it, e.g. forum.inaturalist.org/t/…/5
The main thing seems to be honesty about your observations (if you’re unsure of an ID, note that) and be available for comments and corrections on your posts.
Good luck!
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Thank you very much!