Phew! I just uploaded the last batch of my lowest priority photos that I took during last month's #CityNatureChallenge. While my last batches of observations don't count towards the official tally, they do help map out these species on #iNaturalist.
My personal target for this year's challenge was 700 wild taxa and 7,000 observations in the 4-days. In the end I've uploaded 7,276 observations of 963 taxa, of which 6,857 observations and 868 taxa were wild.
(I reckon 10,000 observations of 1,000 species is probably possible for one person with a lot of planning, even in a relatively low diversity city like Ōtautahi-Christchurch.)
Next week, I'll see if I can finish summarising all the important new finds made in the City Nature Challenge events in Aotearoa-NZ (there were a lot) and write a post about it on iNaturalist NZ.
In the meantime, below are three of my favourites of the photos I uploaded, and a map of my observations from the challenge.
Spider eating moth: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/359998244
NZ Tailed Forest Spider: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/357470468
Mokarakara caterpillar: https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/360057381
