The results are in!
The City Nature Challenge (CNC) 2023 results are in! We had 15,054 observations of 2065 species made by 634 people. That puts us at 28th in observations, 29th in species, and 23rd in participants out of 482 cities worldwide.
We beat NYC in all categories, DC beat us in all categories, and Boston beat us in observations and participants, but we got the better of them in species.
Worldwide, La Paz, Bolivia swept all three categories with over 126k observations, 5344 species, and 3025 participants. In the US, Dallas/Fort Worth was number 1 in observations (48k), Houston-Galveston for species (3707), and San Francisco Bay Area for participants (2488).
As usual, congratulations to @srall for having the most observations in Philly despite the fact that she splits the 4 days between Philly and NYC. She's #1 here and #3 in NYC with well over 1k observations in both cities! She's also #8 worldwide for most observations. Sara also had the third most number of species in Philly. What an impressive effort!
Also congratulations to @mattparr for being the first person in Philly CNC history to cross 500 species. That's an impressive feat considering the weather we had this year. In addition to having the most species this year, Matt also had the second most observations with 1290 observations.
Congratulations also to @jameshoughton who had the 3rd highest ever species count in Philly CNC history with 451 species which puts him second on this year's species list. James also had the third most number of observations.
Well done to everyone else who contributed observations and IDs! The weather wasn't ideal, but you soldiered on and put up some impressive numbers on the board.
A big thank you once again to everyone who participated and helped spread the word. We couldn't do this without you. Mark your calendars for next year's CNC: April 27-30, 2024
PS: I'll try to organize some local iNat meetups over the summer, so please let me know in the comments if you'd like to be notified.
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Had a great (if soggy) time. I would love to hear about meetups.
Yay thank you @navin_sasikumar for organizing !
I will be moving to Old City in June (after many years back and forth between NYC and Philly) so now on #TeamPhilly for good. Look forward to meetups too.
My nominee for Most Dramatic Photo of CNC 2023 (also a fair representation of the weather):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159852532 by @naturejeanne
CNC 2023 observation of which I am most envious (never seen!):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159273038 by @bugsandbirds
Thanks as always for organizing @navin_sasikumar. And thanks for the shout-out @mattparr. Had seen some of those leafhoppers on this plant several days before and was glad one was still there for the challenge days. Matt, I think I might have seen you at John Heinz one day.
Impressed how the core Philly people kicked it up despite the weather. The species count was impressive.
Would love to do a meet-up, particularly one at John Heinz that is easy for me to get to. - Celeste
@srall Thanks again for participating and showing us all how it's done. I'll definitely keep you in mind for meetups. I'll see if we can do one to the Pine Barrens. I don't drive, so I'll have to figure out if I can get a ride out of Philly. But fingers crossed.
@mattparr That's exciting! Glad to have you here permanently. Ooh, those are some great observations. I'm definitely jealous of @bugsandbirds's Penthimia observation too. We need to find one in Philly now. There are only 4 observations ever in the Philly CNC area, 3 of them by Celeste!
@bugsandbirds We'll try to do a John Heinz meetup this summer for sure. Looking forward to meeting all of you at some point.
@mattparr Thanks for mentioning my observation. I didn't notice the hawk looking down like that, until I downloaded the pictures and looked closer. I was trying to keep the camera and lens from getting wet in the rain.
That reminds me that I have 2 more of that Penthimia from before CNC that I haven't uploaded yet! Would definitely do a meet-up in the Pine Barrens too.
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