Not too long after my previous note in September, announcing our collective PorchLighters' observations creeping up on the 1,000 species mark, I took a peek at the count and we were deep into the 1,200's. Not even a chance to pop a cork to celebrate the Millennial Species Count before it was, as they say, old news. A special "hats off" to (or perhaps, given the context, let's shine a light on) jollygoodyellow (https://www.inaturalist.org/people/jollygoodyellow) for her observations lifting us up and well-over that "millestone" (Latin pun, not typo).

As of today (14 November, 2019), we have 6,230 observations tagged to Project PorchLight (thanks, mercí, gracias, obrigado, zikomo, תודה! to all of you for your contributions!). 2,717 of those are considered "Research Grade" (which is pretty amazing, I have to say). But that also means that even more- 3,506, in fact- are still in need of identification, so please reach out to people within your respective networks or colleagues that might be able to spend some of their northern hemisphere "downtime" helping identify those observations still needing ID'd so your observations are able to be considered "Research Grade", shunted over to the GBIF database to contribute a bit more directly to science and conservation.
Shine on!
Stan