Official CVC Butterfly Blitz start date tomorrow - May 30th!

Hello CVC Butterfly Blitz participants!

Although this project has been up and running for a while now, the official start date of the summer-long blitz is tomorrow - May 30th. We are presenting our last training webinar tomorrow; in combination with last weekend's training, you should all now be prepared to get outside and observe butterflies!

I will be resetting the start date of the iNaturalist project to begin on May 30th instead of April 1st, as it is currently set. Don't panic if you see a change in the leaderboard and the species counts. The date change is to be fair to those who are waiting until their training is complete before starting to look for butterflies, as well as those who have been waiting for the start date in our promotional materials.

I also would like to call your attention to two other CVC Butterfly Blitz 2020 projects on iNaturalist:
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2020-sensitive-species
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/cvc-butterfly-blitz-2020-all-species

Creating these projects is a necessary (but confusing) step to ensure that we collect information on all butterflies observed in the watershed over the summer - even those sensitive species for which the observation coordinates are obscured. Details on why this is needed can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#placeindex

In the meantime, all you need to know is that the species you have observed is not a sensitive species you don't need to add it to any CVC Butterfly Blitz 2020 collection project - it will be automatically detected and added*.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
laura.timms@cvc.ca

Thanks,
Laura

  • unless you are using obscured coordinates for geoprivacy; in which case your observations may not be automatically included - contact me for more information
Publicado el viernes, 29 de mayo de 2020 a las 08:43 PM por lltimms lltimms

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