Report & Photos by John Martin Hakai Institute and the Friends of False Creek held a citizen science bioblitz of the False Creek area from from Sep 2 to Sep 5. Nature Vancouver participated in this citizen science project as a supporting partner. Work had begun by many marine biologists from the Hakai Institute during the year but this event brought in the general community. While scientists collected and processed data in the waters of false creek, citizens were asked…
Submitted by John Martin Survey Date: July 29 2022; Revised: August 01 2022 Disclaimer: Due to the potential overlap and limitations in auto-id software, the listed species detected during this survey may not be fully accurate. For more accurate identification, the bat calls should be analyzed using more sophisticated bat acoustic software. Detection Survey Information Type of Detection Survey: Bat Survey Survey Site: South side of Ambleside Pond from the west bend towards the east end of the pond. Recording Device: Echo Touch…
Submitted by John Martin – May 10 Update Hello: I thought I would post the results from iNaturalist for this year’s “City Nature Challenge 2022”.Here is the link. City Nature Challenge 2022: Greater Vancouver · iNaturalist Canada For the record, my user id on inaturalist is “NorthVanDad” and as you can see, I was able to post the most observations and the highest species count for this event. There were many great observations besides mine and from all accounts the city of…