The Great Southern Bioblitz 2021 is days away!
Hello everyone,
The Great Southern Bioblitz is back for another year. After an amazing event in 2020 the Southern Hemisphere once again gets the opportunity for a large-scale BioBlitz during its Spring. This year's observation period will run from October 22nd-25th, the perfect time for birds, flowering plants, bugs and more.
Spring is the peak time for most species with plants flowering following the cool damp winter and before the heat of summer. It's also the time when most fauna species are active. Large areas of Australia have had a wet winter and early spring this year, so the conditions should be perfect for you to get out and explore your local area to discover what’s around. So, please get involved in this event.
The goal is for members of the community and visitors to Baw Baw Shire to record as many species as possible during the event dates. Participants are encouraged to submit all observations of plants, animals, insects etc. and it doesn’t matter if they’re from conservation areas, parks or even your backyard. It all counts and will help to demonstrate the diversity of species that call the area home.
Anyone can participate in the Bioblitz, whether as an individual, a family or as a member of an organisation.
This project has been setup to bring together all of the amazing observations that residents / visitors to Baw Baw Shire will take during the Bioblitz, and also as a way to see how how other members of this great community are going.
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Contact us through social media or via greatsouthernbioblitz@gmail.com
Good luck to everyone.
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@hdavid here. I have uploaded about 20 photos from Narracan (eastern part of Baw Baw), but they haven't turned up on the project. Have I missed doing something that is necessary to make them appear. My first posts were yesterday (22 Oct 21).
Hello @hdavid,
I had a look at the project and I think I know whats wrong. The are three iNaturalist Baw Baw "locations" that have been created (by someone) that when joined together represent Baw Baw Shire. Looks like for one of these areas the creator has ommitted a very small area along Narracan Connection Rd, which is right where your observations are. So, I can't update the iNaturalist location, so to get your observations appearing you will need to edit them and place the location marker a little to the east of the current location towards Coalville Rd ....in the forest closer to Narracan Creek.
Try this with one observation and see if that works.
Thanks,
Tony
Thanks for the info. I've successfully edited the location of a couple of my uploads and they now appear on the project. I'll do the rest sometime soon. Those blanks on the map of the shire are weird. Thanks again. David
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