Red Book of Armenia - Animals | Հայաստանի Կարմիր գիրք's Journal

2023 is over, let me summarize some results:

We have 57 observers of Armenian Red Books species this year and these are top 10:

@kattenkwaad is the best observer of The Red Book birds: 37 red book species.

@kseniiamarianna is the best observer of The Red Book reptilia: 6 red book species.

@theo_fiedler is the best observer of The Red Book insecta: 6 red book species.

@karineavetisyan is the best observer of The Red Book mamalia: 2 red book species.

@vardanasatryan is the best (and the only) observer of The Red Book fish: Kura Barbel.

9 Armenian Red Book species were first observed on iNats:

Thank you all for such a productive year!

Ladies and gentlemen,

@scops @kattenkwaad @terrajanis @loggi @opisska @lucaboscain @drilvonen @axelgosseries

You are the top iNats birdwatchers of Armenia, thus you might be interested...

I've collected the list of rare species, which are present in Armenian checklists on eBirds, but have no observations in Armenia on iNats. Here is the table:

I hope that may inspire you to find some of them and add iNats observations as well!

And here is the list of species, which are present in the Red Book of Armenia, but have no observation neither on eBird nor on iNats:

And this list is not that hopeless - some of these species where found not that long ago in nearby areas (e.g. Ammoperdix griseogularis).

Ladies and gentlemen,

@tomaaasv @karineavetisyan @artem @cyathus @drilvonen @hyacinthus @axelgosseries @lucaboscain @theo_fiedler @heinerziegler @ahospers @ohanjanyan

You are the top observers of the insects in Armenia, thus I would like to make you know...

Over the last several days I've worked with iNats curators to include a number of taxa, which are listed in the Red Book of Armenia, but were missing in the list of iNats known species.

This resulted in adding the following list of species:

Being newly added species, they have no observations on iNats. If you happen to have observations, which can be related to those, you are welcome to add such.

That said, there are still several species in progress (e.g. Machimus erevanensis).

There is also a list of species, which is absent in GBIF taxa data base, which makes it very difficult to argue that they are accepted by worldwide scientific community. E.g. Cardiophorus araxicola, Lithurge fuscipenne, etc. Those are unlikely to be added to iNats any time soon.