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Find wildlife. Take a picture. Share.
Mark Trumbull
Like a lot of people I鈥檝e been doing a fair number of weekend hikes, but on this past Sunday鈥檚 outing I found myself doing something I usually wouldn鈥檛: bending down to turn over a small trailside log.
What for? To see if critters are getting active of course. I was in training, you see. A local nature center was teaching amateurs like me how to be citizen scientists.
鈥淎lways roll the log toward you,鈥� the naturalist said, so anything that wants to run away has a clear escape route on the opposite side.
Useful advice anytime. But it might come in handy right away 鈥� for me and maybe you too. A worldwide is happening from April 30 to May 4, with anyone in participating cities invited to document the plants, animals, and聽 insects that are living wild there.
Find wildlife. Take a picture. Share.
Those are the basic instructions. For many people this will mean using a smartphone app called iNaturalist that makes the process easy. Online and can guide the uninitiated.
The results can end up being used by scientists to track changes in urban environments 鈥� valuable alongside other research at a time of significant worldwide. I鈥檓 expecting simpler benefits as well, in the joy of observing and learning. Even about things that creep and crawl.
