📜 EwA Week Highlights: Sights from the City Nature Challenge and Beyond

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Mike McGlathery

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EwA Highlights

May 4, 2024

Hello everyone!


Thanks for reading the May 4th edition of the EwA highlights. I had lots of observations to sift through this week due to the City Nature Challenge - over 2000 of them! Thanks to everyone who participated.

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📸 Fish are one of the most underrepresented macroorganisms on EwA’s iNat simply due to how difficult it is for us humans to photograph animals that spend the entirety of their lives underwater. While the CNC didn’t change that substantially, it did give our naturalists the chance to observe a few, such as this largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) spotted by Jennifer.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Jennifer Clifford · Cambridge, MA · Apr. 29, 2024) 

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Some species will readily demonstrate to you how they earned their common name, such as carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) or flycatchers (family Tyrannidae). One such example that’s new to me is the ant-eating spiders (genus Euryopis). Kate found this spider doing just that at Fresh Pond.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Kate Estrop · Cambridge, MA · Apr. 29, 2024) 

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After all those observations, one of the same species as last week remained as EwA’s most-observed after the CNC: the wood anemone (Anemonoides cinquefolia), observed here by Deana. 


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Deana Tempest Thomas · Lincoln, RI · May 2, 2024)

📊 Thanks to everyone for your great biodiversity records this past week, totaling 2,104 observations of 740 distinct species. If you’re curious about the records from this week that have been validated by the iNat community so far, you can find them » here.


🏆 Running tally: To date, we have recorded 179,992 observations of 10,774 distinct species! Check out our EwA umbrella project, see the details per site/observer, and more » here.


📅 EwA Upcoming Public Events

Ewa Field Events » Check the EwA Spring [ Event details and registration » ] Don’t miss some great opportunities to follow the rhythm of the season in our local habitats and in the local wildlife! Space is limited for all our field events. Wildlife ethics is important to us and we seek to avoid putting the pressure on natural habitats which large gatherings unavoidably do. We are asking our audience to register-and-commit (or cancel when you know you can’t come) to avoid no-shows.


EwA Fieldwork (and Resources)

It’s a great time to join our monitoring programs. Check EwA’s Volunteer Program Calendar 📅  to know when things happen. And if a session is of interest to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to get the rendezvous location.


📅 EwA Sites Map | 🌱 Site Protocols and Guides · Field Rosters · Field Notes » All here! | ℹ️ More about EwA’s Citizen Science Program » Here


❓ Do you have any questions? Don’t be shy. Just email me or reply to this thread. 


That’s all for this week—hope you have a good one!


-Mike

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