Date: 11/22/24 10:55 am From: Ragupathy Kannan <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> Subject: First Black Scoter from AR in iNaturalist
I encourage AR-birders to try iNaturalist if you have not. Their powerful AI identifies photos and is accurate most of the time. Even eBird does not have an AI tool to ID bird photos.
I noticed that my Black Scoter photo was the first from our state in its database of over 200 million observations (including about 700,000 from Arkansas). And it was immediately vetted by people and elevated to Research Grade (meaning, a scientifically valid observation): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252428564 iNaturalist does other cool stuff, like the biodiversity project blitz project I did in Malaysia, which got a lot of locals fired up: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/dr-r-kannan-s-fulbright-malaysia-biodiversity-blitz For what iNaturalist has done to Arkansas biodiversity documentation and education, click here.
KannanFt. Smith
