Wildlife Observations

Many of us explore nature all the time and wished we had a way to document and learn from wildlife sightings in our every day adventures.  Now with the use of mobile technology (smartphones), we can download an app and wildlife project therein, and log a wildlife sighting while on a hike, road trip, run, swim, camping trip, bike ride etc.  The utility of the iNaturalist app, one can georeference, embed a photograph and answer important form questions, which will facilitate researcher and stakeholder efforts to monitor wildlife species around the globe.  Questions for the wildlife observations project in the iNaturalist app address weather conditions, animal condition, species, surrounding habitat, and behavior.  The data will be used to learn about hotspots for wildlife species according to habitat, temperature etc. which might target areas and seasons to conserve species of concern.