This year’s Great Southern Bioblitz has been quite a success overall considering it is in its first year. With 3000+ participants from 155 regions around the southern hemisphere, we reached a total of more than 90 000 observations of over 12 000 different species in just 4 days!
Our locals from the Coffs and Bellingen region did our area proud, finishing high up on the totals leader board. A huge thankyou to everyone who participated from our zone, particularly those of you who downloaded and used the iNaturalist app for the first time. We hope that you enjoyed your day(s) exploring local natural environments and hopefully learning a thing or two about the organisms that live there. Please continue to submit any interesting sightings you come across, as they may one day become an important record!
The overall victory went to the seasoned campaigners in Cape Town, South Africa, who have previously participated in similar events for the City Nature Challenge. We have a long way to go if we want to compete with Cape Town, but our stats were nonetheless very impressive:
Results for Coffs/Bellingen in overall event:
Totals for the Coffs/Bellingen Region over 4 days:
Top 5 most observed sightings in our area:
We had 16 sightings of vulnerable or endangered species in our area, including 5 sightings of the Grey-headed Flying Fox and this sighting of the Sphagnum Frog (Philoria sphagnicolus) by @baileyensis: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60938567
Thanks so much to all of our local observers during the event, in particular our top 20 observers:
@dianadavey, @adrian2370, @briancadam, @ralfmagee, @kimwin, @luke__e, @cesdamess, @shaunbamford, @mdebrauwer, @jane508, @jen94, @rebecca984, @happywombat, @ratite, @alyssa_bamford, @sienna12345, @fmksandy, @dorothy104, @coffstrails, @nicklambert
Also a huge thank you to our top identifiers, without whom we would have many, many more unknowns and a much smaller species list! @thebeachcomber, @mmmr91, @ben_travaglini, @adrian2370, @cesdamess, @ briancadam, @dustaway, @scottwgavins, @heathwallum, @reiner, @twan3253, @extraneus, @torhek, @indrabone, @paul1046, @lifeisamazing, @sultana, @vicfazio3, @predomalpha, @pewin, @nicklambert
All stats and sightings for the Coffs/Bellingen region can be found on our iNaturalist project by clicking this link:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-coffs-harbour-region
Remember, each of our 3413 observations was photographed, uploaded, and identified within the time period and shows what a small group of local people is capable of achieving in a short amount of time. Hopefully the up-to-date data generated from this event and other local sightings will be of use for things such as analysis of distributions of species in the area.
Thanks once again for your participation and we hope to see you all again next time around!
We’ll finish with a few of the many highlights:
We used the scope of our zone to the full while observing during the event. Here are some sightings from the very edges of our area:
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Thanks Nick for a great overview of the results! And thanks for the huge effort you put in towards making our area's result so good and for inspiring us all to get involved! Kim
Thanks Kim! Hope you enjoyed it and glad to see you are still here on iNat ;)
Hopefully see you round about!
Sorry If you got a notification, I just noticed the image links weren't working, so I fixed them and it re-tagged everyone ... :|
I wondered what was going on. :)
wow amazing work everyone! Can't wait to see what we find this year
Cheers, I missed this last year!
Melbourne got cold and drizzle forecast every day so things look bad here.
Some crazy weather here today (I've read anecdotal reports of ~40cm of hail in some parts!). Hopefully it clears up, fingers crossed for you guys down there
@briancadam My place got reasonably smashed by the storm, broken windows and roof etc.
The best thing today though was my mate who lives a couple of streets away snowboarding in his front yard through the thick hail. There are some crazy videos of the weather here, particularly bad in Toormina.
@reiner It's not too looking too promising here either. Most of the trees here now have no leaves left!!!
Lol! I saw a video of that! sorry to hear about the house. Hopefully we’ll find some good stuff and it clears across the east coast (as much as we need the water here lol) - at least the frogs will be out :)
Cheers. Yep, snails and frogs. We get a bit of sun and everything will be out!
Hope everyone was ok after that chaotic pounding of hail! Wishing everyone the best for the Bioblitz
We are off and racing!!
You guys are doing alright this year - currently second for species. I wish there was a "Greater Melbourne" as we'd be leading now (and I've only posted up to 10AM yesterday).
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?d1=2021-10-22&place_id=7858
Yes, a Greater Melbourne would be up there! Concentrating more on species diversity as it's difficult to compete for the overall with our numbers.
Our 15 or so observers will keep plodding away. You should consider coming to Coffs late October next year @reiner !! ;) :D
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