You made our 2026 Big Backyard BioBlitz a massive success!

This year, a whopping 11,000+ BioBlitzers proved how powerful community science can be.

Thank you to everyone who participated. Together, you documented an amazing 6,300+ species and shared over 68,000+ observations of species across Canada.

All of this data helps conservation experts map species distributions and monitor long-term changes across Canada. They can reveal shifts in migration or hibernation patterns, changes in flowering timelines or variations in fruit and seed production — all potential signs that climate change is affecting plants and wildlife. The more we know about nature, the more we can support it.

Below is just a sample of your amazing observations.

Species most frequently documented:

Monarch

Wild carrot

Common milkweed


Globally threatened species most frequently observed:

Monarch

Common grackle

Green ash


Introduced/invasive species most frequently observed:

Wild carrot

Japanese beetles

Purple loosestrife


Observations by category:

34,877

Plants

19,026

Insects

5,315

Birds

3,089

Fungi (including Lichen)

531

Amphibians

1,269

Arachnids

1,188

Mammals

710

Mollusks

247

Reptiles

Thank you again for participating. We hope you had as much fun as we did!