Eastern Forktail is the first species that is County-Complete for 2023. Here are the numbers after this weekend.
Fragile Forktail | Eastern Pondhawk | Common Whitetail | Blue Dasher | Widow Skimmer | Eastern Amberwing | Prince Baskettail |
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Wyandot | Fayette | Putnam | Seneca | Fayette | Ashland | |
Seneca | Wyandot | Athens | ||||
Columbiana | ||||||
Fayette | ||||||
Henry | ||||||
Hocking | ||||||
Holmes | ||||||
Marion | ||||||
Ottawa | ||||||
Richland | ||||||
Sandusky | ||||||
Seneca | ||||||
Vinton | ||||||
Wyandot |
Counties listed are those that are still needed for the species.
Now that Eastern Forktail is complete there is an added column for Prince Baskettail, which is the next highest - as we complete other species we'll add in others - maybe Violet Dancer, Stream Bluet, or Autumn Meadowhawk.
I had a question about what's the point? Our survey project is dependent on voluntary submissions of Odonata photos. We don't have a schedule or master plan beyond accepting photos and verifying IDs where we can. We have a number of areas of the state where observations are low. So if we have current year records of our most common species, we can assume a minimum level of reporting - if we're not able to report the minimum, then we're potentially missing less common species. My reporting will hopefully encourage folks to take a look.
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