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#iNaturalist

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Jon Sullivan

Check out this rare orange colour morph of a North Island kākā, reported on #iNaturalistNZ from Aotea Great Barrier Island by a new iNat user, karlliec.

Lloyd Esler commented that "Apparently a colour morph known from the old times. There is one in Southland Museum. The man who shot it was fined two pounds I think as the red morph was protected. There is a book called The Red Kaka."

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

iNaturalist NZNorth Island Kākā (Subspecies Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis)North Island Kākā from Aotea Conservation Park, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, NZ on April 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM by Karllie Clifton. This is a kākā but it has way more orange than any we have seen here before. Just wondering if an...
#birds#nz#parrots
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Ryan Hodnett

inaturalist.org/blog/108240-da

iNaturalistHelp find these missing Canadian speciesMore than 40,000 species have been recorded on iNaturalist in Canada, yet based on the Wild Species Report, there are an estimated 80,000 species in the country. Canada is one of the countries best represented on iNaturalist, but there are still many geographic areas without iNaturalist activity, and many species still missing or poorly represented. We’ve partnered with the Canadian Wildlife Federation to try and fill these gaps. Can you help in a national scavenger hunt? Here are maps showing the locations of Canada museum specimens of species still missing from Canada on iNat. These locations are based on Global Biodiversity Information Facility localities, so they may contain some errors - like the Pacific Barracuda in Manitoba.... But errors aside, we hope this will be a good starting point for looking at gaps from Canada. Clicking on the points will bring up a link to observations of other species that have been recorded in the vicinity of where the museum specimen was as well ...
#iNaturalist#iNat#Canada
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Jon Sullivan

Check out Aotearoa's five-finger looper moth, Xyridacma alectoraria. It's a big, elegant, yellow moth with a fringe of *hot pink*.

This one came into my home moth light in January, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and I uploaded it to #iNaturalist today.

My best guess for why it looks like this is that the older leaves of its host plant, five-finger, often turn yellow before they fall. I'm not sure why the hot pink works (but it does).

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

A cropped close-up of the head a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead, and orange mouth parts.
A face on photo of a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead.
A photo of a yellow moth with a few pale spots on the wings. The front fringe of the wing is lined with a thin strip of hot pink.
#mothodon#moths#nz
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InkySchwartz

@ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite
A2. I often notice nature when I'm out for a ride sometimes like the a young hawk hanging out really close to the trail, or the watersnake warming themselves on the sunlit trailbed, or the chipmunk that bounced off my foot while riding last summer, or all the plants flowering in their cycles throughout the year.

To record my observations I use the #iNaturalist app or sometimes just take photos.

#bikenite
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Flatbush Gardener 🌈

@thestrangelet
Nikon or Canon. Both have excellent full-frame mirrorless wide-aperture bodies and lenses.

I use Nikon because that was the first I bought when I moved to NYC in 1979. My main is the Z6II. I also still use my Z5. I still have every camera body and lens I ever bought. But I only use those two bodies. Wide range of brand and 3rd-party lenses.

My nature photos go up on iNaturalist
inaturalist.org/observations?p

#NaturePhotography #iNaturalist
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