City Nature Challenge 2018! (April 27-30)
This Friday is the first day of the third City Nature Challenge, a friendly competition to see which metro area can rack up the most observations, species, and participants in those four days. This year it's an international competition with ~70 locations participating, including Antarctica (stretching the definition of "city" quite a bit, but who cares!). In Santa Clara County there are a few organized events:
4/28
Palo Alto Baylands
4/29
Palo Alto Foothills Park
Coyote Meadows in San Jose
Besides those events and others in neighboring counties, the wildflowers are blooming, the meadows are green and full of butterflies and lizards, and I highly encourage everyone to go for a walk in their neighborhood or any of our lovely open space preserves and enjoy the wonderful spring weather!
Here's the SF Bay Area portion of the City Nature Challenge, where you can find a list of events in other counties & check out the leaderboard & observations as they start coming in:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2018-san-francisco-bay-area
Here's the overall event, where you can see worldwide observations & leaderboards and how we rank:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2018
And here are the results from 2017 and 2016, for comparison:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2017-umbrella (a nice bar graph of the results here)
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2016
P.S. #beatLA, and... #beatSanMateo? Last year Santa Clara County was 5th place in everything amongst Bay Area counties, and I'm sure we can rise in the rankings!
San Mateo:
4799 observations, 1008 species, 145 people
Marin:
3929 obs, 870 sp, 151 pp
San Francisco:
3903 obs, 721 sp, 172 pp
Alameda:
2410 obs, 720 sp, 92 pp
Santa Clara:
2290 obs, 718 sp, 104 pp
Contra Costa:
2012 obs, 620 sp, 60 pp
Sonoma:
1973 obs , 711 sp, 104 pp
Napa:
343 obs, 204 sp, 21 pp
Solano:
262 obs, 174 sp, 13 pp
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SAN MATEO ROCKS! And will continue to do so this year (though I will be assisting a few other counties, turncoat knee-jerk tolerant and inclusive liberal that I am)! @dpom @leslie_flint
2018's results for comparison:
San Francisco:
9295 obs, 1055 sp, 401 pp
Marin:
6763 obs, 1196 sp, 204 pp
San Mateo:
6242 obs, 1156 sp, 240 pp
Santa Clara:
5575 obs , 1072 sp, 241 pp
Alameda:
3868 obs, 910 sp, 274 pp
Sonoma:
3857 obs, 953 sp, 199 pp
Contra Costa:
3450 obs, 922 sp, 140 pp
Napa:
665 obs, 271 sp, 26 pp
Solano:
257 obs, 161 sp, 25 pp
Every county had more participants, and every county except Solano had many hundreds or thousands more observations, many almost double (or more in the case of SF)! Santa Clara handily displaced Alameda for 4th place, and overall had a very high species:observation ratio. Good job, everyone!
Here are the results for SF Bay, and the worldwide results.
A couple of my favorite observations from SF Bay:
rattlesnakes' mating dance
an Asian hammerhead flatworm recorded from the US for the first time
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