iNaturalist Research-grade Observations (iNaturalist-Observations)

iNaturalist.org is a website where anyone can record their observations from nature. Members record observations for numerous reasons, including participation in citizen science projects, class projects, and personal fulfillment.
Contact: Ken-ichi Ueda (kueda@inaturalist.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 February 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Rights for individual observations belong to the individual observers. In jurisdictions where collections of data are are considered intellectual property, the rights holder of this collection is the California Academy of Sciences.
Access Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. Anyone is free to access it for non-commercial use.
Collection Statistics
  • 5,923,143 occurrence
  • 5,909,303 (100%) georeferenced
  • 5,537,744 (93%) with images
  • 5,350,841 (90%) identified to species
  • 1,523 families
  • 22,112 genera
  • 68,991 species
  • 70,725 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics