So that's a wrap for GSB 2022 - by Tony Rebelo

Thank you everybody for your participation, your help with planning, organizing, observing, identifying and sundry other tasks that make for a great event.

Currently, the overall standing is:

Observations
1 Overstrand 19,807
2 Colombia 18,842
3 Cape Town 15,048
4 Garden Route 11,737
5 Overberg 10,294

Species
1 Colombia 2,572
2 Overstrand 2,398
3 Garden Route 2,334
4 Cape Town 2,236
5 Coffs Harbour Region 1,791

Observers
1 Cape Town 334
2 Greater Sydney 275
3 Colombia 234
4 Greater Adelaide 176
5 Brisbane City QLD 173

Turning to Southern African results.
97,988 Observations
9,738 Species
1,406 Identifiers
1,581 Observers

Thanks to all our observers:
top 5 observers - observations
1 tonyrebelo 2,540
2 jandrevanzyl 1,470
3 hhodgson 1,448
4 sandraf 1,367
5 linkie 1,341

top 5 observers - species
1 linkie 727
2 sandraf 667
3 hhodgson 490
4 troos 485
5 nicky 478

top 5 identifiers
1 tonyrebelo 7,555
2 dianastuder 3,369
3 traianbertau 2,925
4 rjpretor 2,564
5 sedgesrock 2,148

50.5% of observations were Research Grade
4.7% were casual grade

Plants accounted for 65% of observations
Insects for 19% and birds 5%.

See our faves here: thanks everyone for the great photos and sounds, and for voting for the best observations.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?order_by=votes&place_id=any&project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-2022-southern-africa-umbrella&verifiable=any

Congratulations. Well done especially to our top teams. Positions Internationally:
Overstrand: 1 on observations, 2 on species,
Cape Town: 1 on observers, 3 on observations, 4 on species,
Garden Route: 3 on species, 4 on observations,
Overberg: 5 on observations.

Thanks to @tonyrebelo

Publicado el 16 de noviembre de 2022 por sandyi