April 24-27 is City Nature Challenge , an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities. Join one or both walks, offered in collaboration with Lexington Living Landscapes.
The walks are an opportunity to learn to use iNaturalist to observe and share biodiversity information in Lexington’s conservation land and to participate in this year’s iNaturalist is an online social network of people who care about biodiversity and want to contribute to knowledge and learn from each other. So far, people in Lexington have made over 30,000 observations comprising over 2,100 species of plants, birds, bugs, fungi, etc. in iNaturalist!
Please download the iNaturalist app to your phone (iPhone or Android) and create an account before you arrive. Come even if you don’t intend to make official observations yourself; help us find plants and animals to record, and see how the process works.
Online iNaturalist Tutorial for the City Nature Challenge
Thursday, April 23, 7:00 pm
Join us as Lexington resident and iNaturalist expert Barbara Katzenberg walks us through how to use iNaturalist. Before the session, please download the iNaturalist app to your phone and create an iNaturalist account. Also have a sprig handy of something with leaves to practice on (a conifer or evergreen broadleaved plant like holly).
Register for the Zoom link here.
iNaturalist Observation Walk at Paint Mine
Saturday April 25, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Meet in the Estabrook School parking lot. Heavy rain cancels. No dogs except certified service dogs.
Leader: Evan Paige – epaige@lexingtonma.gov
iNaturalist Observation Walk at Dunback Meadow
Sunday April 26, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Meet at the Allen Street entrance to Dunback Meadow. Parking is available on Allen Street. Heavy rain cancels. No dogs except certified service dogs.
Leader: Barbara Katzenberg – barbara.katzenberg@lexingtontmma.org