April Review

I started this project because I felt that Washington County was underrepresented in the biology community and especially here on iNaturalist. There are so many projects in California, but so few here in beautiful Oregon. I wanted to change that. This project was inspired by a similar project conducted in parts of California. I did not know what to expect, but I am delighted the results of this first Month. This project started with 19186 observations and 2067 species. It is now at 20628 observations and 2173 species. In just 24 days, 106 species were discovered in the county. With 1442 new observations, that means 1 in every 13 observations was a new species. I don’t expect this to keep going at this rate, but it shows there are a lot of species missing from this project. I have no proof, but I feel this could one day have 3,000 species, or more. Below are the new species by category, with specific species in a few categories that I enjoy.

New species

Plants 61

Insects 21

Mollusks 3

Fungi 2

Arachnids 2

Reptiles 1
Western Skink

Amphibians 0

Mammals 1
Camas Pocket Gopher

Birds 11
Blue Grosbeak
Yellow Warbler
Common Tern
Red-necked Phalarope
Cliff Swallow
Sabine’s Gull
Pacific Loon
Mute Swan
Wilson’s Phalarope
Glaucous Gull
Sandhill Crane

Fishes 1
Redside Shiner

Other 7
Western Brook Lamprey

Thank you to everyone for going out and exploring. There is so much this county has to offer.

See you in May,

Happy Exploring

Posted on 30 April, 2020 22:37 by chrisleearm chrisleearm

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