How Many Species are in Your Backyard?
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2020
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Love your channel
Wow, this is something I've always wanted to do...to promote being an amateur scientist to a lot of people. Imagine if more than half the population are science/math legible? How far could our society be?
That’s a great idea. I will try this with my son.
Awesome, how is your account named? I need a refence to know how hard it will be to catch up with you.
@@jorajungs1413 he has 81 observations and 76 species at the moment. You can beat that with an afternoon hike or two if you're observant. ;-)
I love how Joe has his cap backwards, going on adventure to capture shots of different species😂 like Ash in Pokémon
😂 Agreed.
Ash only turns hit Har when he going to catch a pokemon, and that was back in the day. His hat is normally forward.
@@Medabee8 When turns his hat backwards shits about to go down.
Or because it’s fashionable?
@@Omlet221 yes.... It could be
This is a great idea to do with kids (and by ourselves).
This is like a real life Pokemon Go. Downloaded the app, and just looking at pictures makes me happy somehow. Looking forward to hopefully contributing myself as well!
Imma go hunt now, wish me luck
Jobless me.
Someone: what's your occupation?
Me: I'm a citizen scientist 😎
🤣🤣🤣
Me too! I had to quit my job as a fisheries biologist due to chronic health problems. My job on Facebook is listed as citizen scientist at iNaturalist. 😀
I expected it to be sponsored by curiosity stream
I have been doing this literally for the past week, I identified more than 30 species, and it was really astonishing! But Finding the exact species was a real nightmare...😄😄
@Ryder Hughes It is available in the play store...
@Ryder Hughes Using inaturalist in the web is better than the app
@@thepuirox1997 Agree
@@thepuirox1997 I like to upload the observations from the phone and then investigate further in the web site.
I don't know, seems more comfortable to me upload it with the app.
I just saw a bird and googled it for 30 minutes and found that it was a black drongo. This is going to make it so much better. I am currently working on identifying the birds in my colony because I am making a bird sanctuary. Thank you very much for sharing this app. I love your videos.
Just got the app and noticed a lot of observations in my area! Can't wait to get out there and start using it.
I found a shiny colored bettle i made a picture and the app couldn't found an matching beetle, Semmes like i found another beetle species 😯
Do Wait. Do not get out. You will find virus outside... And then inside... your house... And then inside... Your body
@@alexp.2178 Make sure to post it, maybe someone in the iNat community knows what it is!
I love this so much, as another Texas Boy growing up my grandparents could ID any flower, or bird that crossed their path. I cant wait to have that level of understanding of what's around me
Not only can you have fun while looking and walking around observing nature, you also help scientists too-
damn-
The only question can I take photos of my chickens
Im gonna feel honored lol
@@marzipan3437 You can but they don't contribute anything and will be marked as "casual" and not be eligible for "research grade"
Yeah I kinda meant it as a joke it would be cool but nope
This is my favorite app!! Even at the university level, I've found this app so helpful. It makes me smile so much to see the joy and excitement from discovering nature being shared amongst the iNaturalist community. I've used this app to get me in the right direction for using literature keying out different species of plants. It saves so much time (and hundreds of pages) for researchers and brings a great introduction to nature for the backyard explorer. Thank you for covering this!!!
Lol same I love this app to death! My goal is to try and get 500 observations by July 29th. I'm already at 402, so if I can just get 98 more observations that would be awesome
I live in Australia, in the bush, actually the last of the bush in our area, as the encroaching developers close in on us. I have been taking video and photos for memories. I have been listening to the wildlife since we moved here 10 years ago..... I have a story if anyone is interested ...
One day a friend of mine was over having a coffee with me. I heard the Noisy Minors going absolutely ballistic and then all of a sudden there were kookaburras making weird kind of noises .... almost aggressive sounding? (Maybe that was my assumption lol) I said to my friend “listen. Hear the birds.? There is a lace monitor out there” she laughed so hard at me, seriously thought I was telling a joke. We walked out the front and a few hundred metres toward the gate, sure enough a massive lace monitor was heading up to probably steal eggs! Ha! To really science I know..... but just wanted to point out how cool it is that we have animals that can communicate in a way that humans can figure out,
The other day my daughter said “the birds found James” James is our cat lol. We’d been calling him so the birds started screaming.... at Mr James awwwwww.
Thank you for the upload, I love it,
I know exactly what you mean, I always know when a Wedge Tailed Eagle, or some kind of Grey Hawk is about, as the Sulphur crested Cockatoos go nuts and swarm, along with the other birds.
That’s such a cute and funny story!! 🤣Thanks for sharing
Silver Lune we have six chooks and they’re the ones that “tell” me there’s a hawk or eagle because they run for cover lol... first they all stand about just watching the sky , making tiny clucking sounds then they bolt lol quite funny sometimes, poor old chookies
Hope all is well in your worlds :)
SnazzyPool
Happy to oblige 💁✌️
@@bananapeaches6370 Wow, that must be quite the thing to watch! Very smart chooks you have in your care!!
Also, it's a shame that the bush around you may be turned into housing at some stage, especially since you have Lace Monitors, I don't think I've seen one around here. They're probably out there, or it could be too cold.
I'm lucky that the bush around me is a national park, so it won't change much in regards to development.
Enjoy your afternoon!
Not in Iceland, there’s only myfluga and regular flies
You may by surprised. Life has a nack of existing in the most extreme and bizarre places
There are 282 animal species documented in iceland on iNat.
Here in Iceland there are veeeeery few species of insects. Big colorful butterflies are the rarest and coolest things you will find here :I
Also not in Hong Kong, where there’s no backyards :(
@@kennetht5923 there are a stunning 6.220 species of animals documented in Hong Kong!
Nature is all around you
Me:sees a cockroach
Also me: stares at it
Cockroach:well I’m bored, hey human!
Also cockroach:comes running to me
Me:throws literally everything in my house and gets out
Cockroach:why are they scared of me?
until they fly
0:22 dude... we got mantises the size of a human palm. i didnt even know such smaller versions even existed.
I did this with my three year old brother a while ago and had a lot of fun. We called it bug hunting haha
Oh my! I already did this as a hobby but didnt know where to share it! Thanks for the idea! Hahah
Definitely going to download this app, thanks! I'm sure they'll be stoked with the influx of citizen scientists thanks to this episode. Also I honestly love this channel. Always great information and Joe seems like a sincerely decent dude that cares about everything and everyone on this planet. Mad respect.
Me: mom can I have animal crossing?
mom: no, we have animal crossing at home.
animal crossing at home:
Animal Crossing only has 80 species of "fish" and and 80 species of "bugs". iNaturalist has _way_ more. ;-)
Upupa epops yeah. Inaturalist only has a few thousand
Nah I think animal crossing is inaturalist at home lol
I naturalist is way way better
I've been tracking the species in my own backyard (mostly) using inaturalist since August of 2018, and I'm currently at ~5000 observations across ~1200 species. I've always been a bit of a bug nerd, but Inaturalist turned me into a full-blown nature freak.
Me too lol. I am trying to get 100 new observations by next month. I'm at 400 observations and trying to reach 500. I am going to finally be an amateur!
I hit a mosquito and uploaded it to iNaturalist. Thanks Joe, its life has more purposes now.
Same, I accidentally squashed a tiny winged black insect, I posted it and it got research grade lmao
7:15 "Very spicy do not touch"
6:55
As a national park ranger based in a visitor centre I love it when people come in and ask about something they saw "out there". I often use inaturalist to show them what they have seen, as a way to not only awnser the question, but show them how easy it is to look up species on inaturalist, and hopefully inspire them to add some of thier own obs. Its a great site, and I love seeing what others are seeing. I have been contacted by a couple researchers about my things, which is always nice to know you are helping science.
Alright, Joe, you convinced me. This honestly does sound fun.
Hey Joe! I was on my front porch today and I saw a spider that looked like a hornet or yellow jacket. Thanks for making these videos there my favorite thing to watch in quarantine.
I've been on inaturalist since 2015. It's very cool to see how it's grown over time.
I made a list of backyard regular birds the other week, about 30 and another list af local area regulars, about 25. My favourite are the Tasmanian currawongs that taught me to feed them.
I've started using the app and it's remarkably effective at recognising common plants! I love learning their names!
I'm going to go out and snap all the aussie spiders in my backyard! Tell my wife I love her.
I live on 50+ acres in a region I didn't grow up in. I was looking for something like this a week or two ago. Perfect timing!
So glad you posted his video. I've been wanting to start a nature journal of sorts for a long while, but haven't jumped on it because I wanted something digital.
Yesss! ❤️ 🐜 🐛 I got super excited when i clicked on this video, I guessed you were talking about the iNaturalist app. I’ve been using this app for the past two years now and it’s awesome!
I've been looking for an app that can identify plants! I don't know the names of plants or what they look in different stages, but I see a lot of different plants I don't know the names of! Thank you for introducing this app, I never even knew it existed
I'm really really into macrophotography and never heard of this app! I have a lot of photos documenting a variety of insects and small animals on my region. I used Google Lens to learn what is in the photo, but that would be it. I've just download iNaturalist and can't wait to share them all! Thanks for the tip!
“Very spicy, do not touch.” 😂
And it is localized in portuguese!!
Just joined the team
thanks for putting this out there! iNat is such a phenomenal platform
Now I gotta go complete my everything-dex
I can't say how grateful I am for this video informing me about this app back in May!!! I moved to a different US region at the beginning of the year and now know the names of so many of the critters in my yard (so many creepy looking ones are actually very beneficial). It's helping me to ID and weed out invasive plants & encourage indigenous ones. It's brought a lot of joy and curiosity in an otherwise maddening year. Thanks x 1000000
This is now likely one of my most shared vids. Big advocate of inaturalist, and this makes it easy to explain to others.
Cool! When I was in college there was a class in which we could propose ideas for apps, and I came up with this exact concept. My classmates also told me: so you're basically making a real-life Pokedex?
When were you in college? I feel this context is very useful for the full mental picture. I assume iNaturalist did not exist yet?
I’m legit running out into my yard RIGHT NOW!! LOL! I can’t wait! Excellent share, dude! Thanks!
Downloaded and excited! It would be awesome to cover and publicize more of these citizen scientist projects!
4:21
I have a picture of this flower in my smartphone. Beautiful!
Just posted my first few observations! thanks for showing me this app!!!
I love this app. I downloaded it to identificate some plants near my house something like a year ago (recomended by Phil Torres, the lepidopterologist, not the astronomer), and its soooo awesome. 10/10 would recommend!
I got trained and worked as an arborist (tree care) in the western USA while I was in college getting my engineering degree, then moved east, and realized there's so many more plants I have no idea about. This is going to be perfect for helping to polish up the knowledge I don't use as often anymore. Plus animals...I'm legit excited!
Thanks, Joe. I joined 3 years ago when I first watched this video, and since then, I’ve observed >870 species in 4420 observations. I can’t wait to wake up everyday and hop onto iNat to see what I can find!
I found a snake in my backyard in the first 5 minutes! And within 20 minutes, it was ID'd as a 'western terrestrial garter snake'
My man you might wanna take a better care of your backyard
Great video! Gonna share this with my friends!
5:45 i love that voicecrack :D
Hey! I already use this! It's cool to see it being talked about. Absolutely download this if you often wonder what things are.
i look forward to your videos every week. keep up the good work!
I love iNaturalist! I had to make 10 observations for my Ecology class, and I haven’t stopped since (currently over 1,800 observations).
I’ll have to take a whole day off to ID everything just in and around the yard. But I’m looking forward to it!
My backyard is is ten acres, covered in a blanket of tall grasses, and it’s supposed to rain for about the next two weeks. I think i might wait until this rain stops to do this.... I also would probably be covered in ticks and grass marks after doing this too.
Post the ticks too! hehe
Thank you.. great suggestion I have downloaded and started snapping
I was surprised to see how many people in Sydney Australia have this app.
I was hoping this video would be about iNaturalist. Didn't disappoint. Love that you mentioned the Never Home Alone project. I'm a fan.
Thanks... I’ve wanted something like this for years.. can’t wait to download
Omg. I am so gonna do this on my way to work.
Wonderful!!! Thank you for the idea!
1:06 they made their own version of the meme and I respect that
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When I first saw this: 2020 in high school, barely heard of iNaturalist, just wanted to know what trees were around me, not sure what I wanted to do with my life
Now: 2023 in college, Use iNat all the time, crazy plant nerd, determined to become a botanist
In short: Thanks for changing my life
That was such a small cute praying mantis. I moved while ago to somewhere with praying mantises but I didn’t know there would be any, so I never looked for them. Then winter was coming. They were unmissable and it was the best thing ever, giant mantises larger than my hands, from the Panera bread Parking lot to my backyard when I was mowing the lawn. Also snapping turtles and frogs.
Now I have something to do this weekend! Thank you! :)
Awesome- thanks for sharing .. my kids will love this.
Wow, this is really cool! Thanks, Joe!
I love this. I didn't even have to leave my room and i found 3 different types of flies, 2 different types of roaches, and bedbugs. This is the most fun ive had in YEARS!!
Thanks for the idea! I just downloaded the app and it's amazing.
Thanks for this awesome video (how did I miss it a year ago 🤔). This will pair really well with Geocaching as I often come across bugs and plants that I have never seen before. Now I finally have an outlet to share what I've found and maybe uncover what species they are and how rare my sighting of them really was.
Omg!!! Their app can help recognise species? I need it right now
Adventure is out there! Cute mantis
Love the idea of this app and am stoked to try it out
OH Thank goodness. I've been taking pics of interesting plants and bugs for years. Until now, I don't know how or where to submit them for ID and to add to the knowledge base.
Thanks!
I can't believe how fun this is!
You missed the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge Joe!
Again a very nice video from this channel :)
The potato bug makes me roll everytime. Heer i go oop i tripped. it seems so funny to me for no reason
I've always wanted a real life pokedex. Something that lets you take a photo of an animal and gives you some information about it, and you could "collect" them and fill up your pokedex
Each species on iNaturalist links to its Wikipedia article and other sources, so it kind of works like that!
Seems cool! Definetly will try that out
The spiders in my apartment: HI!
This is such a great idea, thank you for letting us know of it. One of the best ways to help children get interested in nature I think
Dude... I am so gonna do this every day. Thanks.
"Hope it's better." How has it actually gotten worse only a week later? Still love the enthusiasm. Keep up the good work.
You are really a good speaker .👍
Ive been looking for an app like this for like 2 years... seen many duds, but looking forward to trying this one :) thank you!
I've done this all my life. No big collections but always looking for creatures and critters everywhere. I even found crayfish in the lake my father grew up around. He didn't even know. At 33 in getting this app and I'm gonna have soooo much fun with my daughters.
Right on and will do. I am the photographer for Arkansas and would love to contribute to iNaturalist. Thank you, Joe.
"Bad tree"
My great uncle Leon Hepner was an entomologist at the University of Mississippi. While he's long gone, I'd like to think he'd have loved this. I never got a chance to meet him myself.
I just downloaded it! Can't wait to start using it. 😁
this is a great video, thanks joe
This app sounds really kool. Downloading it now so I don't forget about it.
Downloaded! Great!
Going to nature conservation areas is the best! So many plants and animals to document.
Sent this to my nieces. This is awesome.
Cool! I'm downloading this right now!
I'm scared to almost all arthropods but I'm also very interested with them, that's why I wrote my own fantasy/scifi novel about them!
I will definitely download this app! I've been searching for something like this actually!
Joe, you are always are so funny! I’m always observing nature wherever I go! I will totally try this app! I want to know what things are!
Thank you, Joe.