City Nature Challenge 2023: Charlottesville Region, VA's Journal

Hello,
I’ve tagged you in this post because you are a top identifier in the Charlottesville area. We’re hoping you’ll participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge by helping go through the "Needs ID" observations by May 8. It is top iNat identifiers like you that will help increase our number of species recorded in the Charlottesville area and ensure that we have high-quality data. You can find our City Nature Challenge: Charlottesville Region iNaturalist project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-charlottesville-region-va

The 2023 City Nature Challenge identification period runs until Monday, May 8 at 9:00am. At that time, final results will be pulled for all 435+ cities that participated in the City Nature Challenge. Results will be announced by May 9.

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Thank you for being part of the 2023 City Nature Challenge. This was Charlottesville's sixth year participating in this global event and we've continued to improve our results every single year.

We'd love to hear from you about your experience. Please fill out the brief survey (less than 5 minutes to complete) so we can gather your feedback and make next year's event better: https://forms.office.com/r/xXPXQg6EPW

Charlottesville Results
*3,089 observations made (48% increase from 2022)
*859 species identified (25% increase from 2022)
*182 observers (decrease from 2022. Likely due to poor weather)

Highlights
*Finished 9th out of 64 similar population-size cities for number of observers
*Finished 12th out of 64 similar population-size cities for number of species
*Finished 14th out of 64 similar population-size cities for number of observations
*On average, each person made 16 observations
*45% of observations were research grade. This means 1,423 observations will contribute to scientific databases and help with scientific research.

Thank you again for all your help making observations and identifying species for City Nature Challenge! If you haven't already, please take 2-minutes to answer these questions so we can gather your feedback and improve next year's challenge: https://forms.office.com/r/xXPXQg6EPW.

Interested in doing even more? Here are some upcoming local opportunities with The Nature Conservancy:

Saturday, June 3 from 9 a.m.-noon | Clean the Bay Day | help remove trash from Meadow Creek and Schenk's Branch. Register at www.cbf.org/clean

Become a volunteer preserve steward. Email vapreservestewards@tnc.org.

Visit at TNC Preserve including Fortune's Cove (Lovingston, VA).

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