CNC:NYC - Come to our last ID party! Tell us about your exciting finds!
Our last ID party is tomorrow, Wednesday May 3 (details below). We're going to try to get through as many observations as we can! While we're doing that, we're going to look for cool observations we can share with the global organizers of CNC. If you can't make it to our ID party, let us know about your observation highlights in the comments below. Here's what they are particularly interested in:
- species that haven’t been recorded in particular areas before
- important finds of rare/endangered/threatened species
- observations that have a great story that go along with them
- really great photos
- other fun finds or personal favorites
- urban contrasts, nature taking over, marginal spaces, etc.
Leave a comment below with a link to the observation!
Here are the details for our last ID party:
City Nature Challenge NYC Virtual ID Party
Date: May 3, 2023
Time: 5:30p-7:30p
Host: Macaulay Honors College
Location: Zoom
Description: Grab a snack and a tasty beverage and hop on our Zoom with @klodonnell to make identifications together! No taxonomic experience necessary - everyone is welcome! The basic format will be a quick intro about how to ID observations and then you'll work on them on your own while on the call. We'll hang out and chat about the cool critters people have found or the funny observations people have made.
Registration: via Eventbrite.
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157631902
This observation confirmed the existence of Nantucket Junberry in the Bronx. The Nantucket Juneberry is a state-endangered, globally rare species that's endemic to the Northeastern coast. Known to occur in Staten Island, the existence of this species in Manhattan and the Bronx has only been recently confirmed when I visited the Manhattan population two weeks ago and the Bronx population during this CNC. This species can only be positively identified when in flower, hence why it was, for a long time, mistaken for another species (Amelanchier spicata) in NYC. Nantucket Juneberry is special and distinctive in that it produces pollens on many of its deformed, irregular petals, also known as andropetaly.
For a better view of the pollen-bearing petals (without torrential downpour), here is the earlier observation in Manhattan: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155378979
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