If you are a wildlife observer/recorder and use iNaturalist to upload your photos and to record your observations (and make them available for conservation etc.) then if you use Chrome as your browser (or a Chrome derivative (i.e. Edge, Brave, Opera, etc.)) then you can install 2 tools as extensions in your browser which help during your iNaturalist usage. These extensions are: 'iNaturalist Extension Suite' and 'Tools for iNaturalist' and they can both be downloaded from the Chrome Store.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/inaturalist-enhancement-s/hdnjehcihcpjphgbkagjobenejgldnah?hl=en-GB&fbclid=IwAR3GCC7ysjsbrMKGnmCtKIl9BgUWs-pst7aHLrpL03bwAXV5AJAF_fKGZp4

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tools-for-inaturalist/pmlhnjpkaojokgpabkfbembpklhjobkj?hl=en-GB&fbclid=IwAR1hGitSHh8Jn7CxnBrypXn7FCtwSHVJaclSOYerOOyQ8-PL7nRNE_PeF7k

Enjoy !!

Sadly, currently, Firefox is not supported and the ability to use Chrome extensions in Firefox has been removed.

See here: https://irecord.org.uk/linking-inaturalist

Data which reaches "Research Grade" in iNaturalist will be passed to iRecord in the NBN - UK's biological data verification process for inclusion of records in the NBN Species Atlas - https://nbnatlas.org/

During the UK Data Verification process it is necessary for the reviewers to be able to assign names of the recorders to the records so that they can have some understanding of the expertise of the individual recorder associated with the record they are looking at.

On iNaturalist many recorders/observers use 'nicknames' as their User Name instead of using their real/actual names; this makes it very difficult if not impossible for UK record verifiers to be certain of some records and as a consequence some data is unable to be used.

If you want your records to be usable within the UK can you please consider changing your User Name in iNaturalist to the following format: "forename_ surname".

Many thanks for your help in this matter.

National Biodiversity Network:

The NBN Trust is delighted to be bringing you iNaturalistUK (https://uk.inaturalist.org) - in partnership with the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the Biological Records Centre (BRC). This is the UK portal of the popular, global, wildlife recording app - iNaturalist.org

If you are already a member of the iNaturalist recording community, and mainly record British wildlife, you may wish link to iNaturalistUK.

For more information about iNaturalistUK, please visit: https://nbn.org.uk/inaturalistuk/

If you have any queries, please read our page of Q&As: http://ow.ly/9Vlq50EhvG2

If your question is not answered there, please get in touch via email: inaturalistuk@nbn.org.uk

A Tool to Transfer Your iNat Records to iRecord:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/tool-for-exporting-inaturalist-data-to-irecord-or-elsewhere/19160/4

The MBAN (Merseyside BioBank Active Naturalists) project is continuing during 2020 and your sightings will be very welcome and gratefully received. Competition may not be your 'thing' but it doesn't take much effort to get into the top 10 of recorders entering their records - you may enjoy giving it a try and learning identifications as you go along.

Also this year (2020) there will be another City Nature Challenge pitting the Liverpool City Region against other Cities and Regions across the world for numbers of sightings entered, number of species found and number of recorders/observers taking part - please help if you can - see over at: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020-liverpool-city-region

Lancashire is also getting involved in the City Nature Challenge - see over at: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020-lancashire

And, Greater Manchester is also getting involved - see over at: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020-greater-manchester

Other places in Britain are also involved such as Birmingham & Black Country, Birmingham Metro Area, Brighton & Lewes Downs, Bristol & Bath, Glasgow, London, North East England, Nottingham City, and Surrey BC - see here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020

Take care everyone and enjoy your wildlife and nature - here is hoping we all find new and interesting things to see, watch and record during this year.

There is till time left this year (2019) to get plenty of records in and new species too - especially so for many sites in Wirral and Halton which have less than 50 records and plenty still with 0 (ZERO) records - see here for such sites: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/greenspace-challenge-wild-places-league

Enjoy your recording and please enter your records ASAP (with photos if at all possible).

To get your records included in this project please get in touch and let me know your iNaturalist username as i don't always recognise you! (ben.deed@merseysidebiobank.org.uk).