This year, a whopping 8600+ Big Backyard BioBlitzers proved how powerful community science can be.
Thank you to everyone who snapped photos and recorded audio clips. Together, you documented an amazing 5,300+ species and shared 45,000+ observations of plants, mammals, birds, insects and other living creatures.
It was a massive community science effort that will help conservation experts map species distribution and monitor long-term changes across the country. This helps identify things like whether or not migration or hibernation patterns are changing, or shows if the timelines for flowering, fruit and seed production of plants are changing. All can be signs of whether or not temperature and other weather changes from climate change are impacting plants and wildlife.
Here’s just a sample of what was found.
You can view more findings here. Thank you again for participating - it was a heck of a lot of fun!
