🐦 Calidris (Calidris Sandpipers)
📅 Observed on 2025-02-03
👤 By: calebcatto
📌 Location: Penong SA 5690, Australia
🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291886022
📷 Photo credits: (c) Caleb Catto, some rights reserved (CC BY)
🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calidris
🐦 Calidris (Calidris Sandpipers)
📅 Observed on 2025-02-03
👤 By: calebcatto
📌 Location: Penong SA 5690, Australia
🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291886022
📷 Photo credits: (c) Caleb Catto, some rights reserved (CC BY)
🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calidris
A long overdue #Introduction.
I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).
I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.
#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Naturalist
A Prickly Wild Rose (Rosa acicularis) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. An introduced Northern Hemisphere plant, maybe from Canada.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435786 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #Plants #Plantae
A Prickly Wild Rose (Rosa acicularis) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. An introduced Northern Hemisphere plant, maybe from Canada.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435786 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #Plants #Plantae
Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.
I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.
So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.
There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749
There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605
There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888
Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916
#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring
Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.
I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.
So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.
There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749
There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605
There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888
Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916
#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring
A Silvereye or Tauhou (Zosterops lateralis) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. A common bird that colonised New Zealand from Australia in the 1850s. Related to the Swinhoe’s White-eye (Zosterops simplex) found in Singapore.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435784 ].
A Silvereye or Tauhou (Zosterops lateralis) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. A common bird that colonised New Zealand from Australia in the 1850s. Related to the Swinhoe’s White-eye (Zosterops simplex) found in Singapore.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435784 ].
New Zealand Scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve on 25 Dec 2025. These ducks are endemic to New Zealand. Second shot shows a female swimming in front of the male.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435774 ].
New Zealand Scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve on 25 Dec 2025. These ducks are endemic to New Zealand. Second shot shows a female swimming in front of the male.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435774 ].
A Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. Introduced as a game bird from Australia in the 1860s, but may have naturally arrived at around the same time.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435771 ].
A Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand on 25 Dec 2025. Introduced as a game bird from Australia in the 1860s, but may have naturally arrived at around the same time.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435771 ].
🌿 Hippobroma longiflora (Star of Bethlehem)
📅 Observed on 2025-01-28
👤 By: robertdmartin
📌 Location: Grand Port District, Mauritius
🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/329311883
📷 Photo credits: (c) Robert Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY)
🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippobroma_longiflora
#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Plants #Bloomscrolling
🌿 Hippobroma longiflora (Star of Bethlehem)
📅 Observed on 2025-01-28
👤 By: robertdmartin
📌 Location: Grand Port District, Mauritius
🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/329311883
📷 Photo credits: (c) Robert Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY)
🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippobroma_longiflora
#iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Plants #Bloomscrolling
Violets (genus Viola) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand, on 25 Dec 2025. There were plenty of these pretty flowers by the walking track.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435769 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #Plants #Plantae
Violets (genus Viola) spotted at Glenorchy Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, New Zealand, on 25 Dec 2025. There were plenty of these pretty flowers by the walking track.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/333435769 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #NewZealand #Plants #Plantae
The beloved #iNaturalist is adding generative features… the text is as mild as they could muster, staff assures users that comments won’t be summarised, but then what, exactly, is the improved system for tips and suggestions for IDs going to be? The roll out targets a small group of users first. Let’s hope they cut it at the root if the new system is as appallingly misleading and counterproductive as the usual LLM offers out there.
The beloved #iNaturalist is adding generative features… the text is as mild as they could muster, staff assures users that comments won’t be summarised, but then what, exactly, is the improved system for tips and suggestions for IDs going to be? The roll out targets a small group of users first. Let’s hope they cut it at the root if the new system is as appallingly misleading and counterproductive as the usual LLM offers out there.
