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  1. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    Here's my favourite observation of my finds on day one of the City Nature Challenge. It's a tailed forest spider, a NZ endemic species. It's an elegant teardrop-shaped small spider.

    This is the first time I've found one in our garden, making it the 820th species for our garden. It's also a first for our neighbourhood on iNaturalist.

    Welcome.

    inaturalist.nz/observations/35

    #cnc2026 #iNaturalistNZ #spiders

    #cnc2026 #inaturalistnz #spiders
  2. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    The City Nature Challenge is still in full swing. We're seven days away from the deadline of 10 May, for uploading and identifing all the photos and audio recordings made on 24–27 April.

    I've just finished uploading my photos from 24 April, which was a bike into work and back, a bioblitz on the university campus with students, then a moth light on my deck at home. (That’s 1,498 observations of 359 species from me.) Now I move onto my Saturday, where I surveyed my garden then went for a run around the neighbourhood, then another moth light. The, I’ll be onto Sunday's epic guided walk from the hills to the centre of the city.

    If you're watching the results unfold, Te Upoko o te Ika (Wellington) is a just an whisker ahead of Ōtautahi-Christchurch at the moment for the NZ city with the most observations. The NZ total so far is 4,627 species and 58,506 observations, made by 1,738 people. It’s pretty epic.

    With still a week of identifying and uploading to go, those numbers are going to continue to climb (they went up by over 200 observations while I was typing this).

    If you took photos of nature in your city on 24–27 April, uploading them to #iNaturalist will contribute to the challenge. It's a great way to contribute to this global snapshot of nature in our cities.

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    #cnc2026 #iNaturalistNZ

    #inaturalist #cnc2026 #inaturalistnz
  3. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    Today is the fourth and last day of observing species for the #CityNatureChallenge. I’m out the door now taking my cameras for an all-day bike in Christchurch City’s Port Hills, and will then end my day with a moth light at our house.

    What wild species can you find today?

    Keep in mind that after Monday is over we have two weeks to upload the rest of our photos and audio recordings to #iNaturalist and help to identify all the species that have been found.

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    #CNC2026 #NZ

    #citynaturechallenge #inaturalist #cnc2026 #nz
  4. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    There are lots of events going on around Ōtautahi-Christchurch and surrounding towns today, for Day 3 of the 2026 City Nature Challenge. See the link below. There’s something for just about everyone.

    I’m heading out in a moment to lead a walk from the Sign of the Takahe in the Cashmere Hills down to the Botanic Gardens (leaving 9:45 from the bus stop). We’re scheduled to pass through the South Library (currently a building site) at 1 pm, and the Art Gallery at 4 pm.

    And, the weather is looking great.

    Whether you’re on an organised event or doing your own thing, any species observations you make that you upload to #iNaturalist today and Monday count towards the City Nature Challenge. Globally the challenge has already passed 900,000 observations since it started on Friday.

    inaturalist.nz/posts/129161-ch

    #CNC2026 #CityNatureChallenge

    #inaturalist #cnc2026 #citynaturechallenge
  5. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    And the 2026 City Nature Challenge is GO with Aotearoa-New Zealand making the first observations!

    😀

    inaturalist.org/projects/city-

    #CityNatureChallenge #CNC2026

    #citynaturechallenge #cnc2026
  6. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    The global City Nature Challenge starts at midnight on 23 April, which here in New Zealand is now less than four hours away.

    If you’re new to the City Nature Challenge, it’s four days of observing nature, in hundreds of cities around the world. That’s followed by two weeks of uploading photos and identifying species on #iNaturalist.

    It’s a great way to get together with others and have some fun exploring your city and seeing what wild species you can find.

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    inaturalist.nz/projects/city-n

    #CityNatureChallenge #CNC2026

    #inaturalist #citynaturechallenge #cnc2026