Previous Year Results

Here are the results:

The official City Nature Challenge results were announced yesterday afternoon and we want to share them with you. Thank you to everyone who participated, we couldn’t be more excited about the results, especially for our fourth year! 🎉 🌎

Greater Phoenix Area:
We had 13,562 observations of 1,129 species by 413 people. 342 people also made identifications. Greater Phoenix landed as 44th in the world out of 690 urban communities!

Global Top Three:
La Paz, Bolivia, Monterrey, Mexico, and  San Antonio, Texas.

Thank you again to all of the amazing participants and collaborators. See you next year! 🤓

Greater Phoenix Area:
Top observer: @drmoasu with 3,114
Most species: @drmoasu with 454
Most identifications: @ecoexplorers with 3,446

Saguaro was our top species.

Here are the collective results:

Here are the collective results:

Observations: 2,436,844

Species: 65,682+, including more than 3,940+ rare/endangered/threatened species

Observers: 83,528 

Most-observed species globally: Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)

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Here are the results:

The official City Nature Challenge results were announced yesterday afternoon and we want to share them with you. Thank you to everyone who participated, we couldn’t be more excited about the results, especially for our third year! 🎉 🌎

Greater Phoenix Area:
We had 7,629 observations of 1,034 species by 398 people. 400 people also made identifications. Greater Phoenix landed as 54th in the world out of 482 urban communities!

Global Top Three:
La Paz, Bolivia, Cape Town, South Africa, and  Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.

Thank you again to all of the amazing participants and collaborators. See you next year! 🤓

Greater Phoenix Area:
Top observer: @drmoasu with 1,596
Most species: @lmspopova with 305
Most identifications: @stevejones with 1,314

Saguaro was our top species.

Here are the collective results:

Observations: 1,870,763

Species: 57,227+, including more than 2,570 rare/endangered/threatened species

Observers: 66,394

Most-observed species globally: Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)

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Here are the results:

The official City Nature Challenge results were announced yesterday afternoon and we want to share them with you. Thank you to everyone who participated, we couldn’t be more excited about the results, especially for our second year! 🎉 🌎

Greater Phoenix Area:
We had 17,791 observations of 1,123 species by 434 people. 329 people also made identifications. Greater Phoenix landed as 18th in the world out of 445 urban communities!

Southwest Competition:
🥇Greater Phoenix took first place!
🥈Albuquerque was second
🥉El Paso took third
Together we made 33,828 observations of 2,433 species by 1,075 people. Amazing!

Global Top Three:
La Paz, Bolivia, Cape Town, South Africa, and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.

Thank you again to all of the amazing participants and collaborators. See you next year! 🤓

Greater Phoenix Area:
Top observer: @wolfinthefog with 4,996
Most species: @wolfinthefog with 234
Most identifications: @larivera with 1,408 

Here are the collective results:

Observations: 1,694,877
Species: 50,176+, including more 2,244 than rare/endangered/threatened species
Observers: 67,220
Most-observed species globally: Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

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That’s a wrap! The official City Nature Challenge results were announced on May 10th and we want to share them with you. Thank you to everyone who participated, we couldn’t be more excited about the results, especially for our first year!

Collective Global Results

Observations: 1,270,767

Species: 45,300+, including more than 2,100 rare/endangered/threatened species

Observers: 52,777

Most-observed species globally: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Global Top Three:
Cape Town, South Africa, Washington, D.C, and Dallas/Fort Worth 

Greater Phoenix landed as 30th in the world out of 419 cities!
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Southwest Competition (Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson):
Albuquerque took first place, Greater Phoenix was second and Tucson took third. Congrats to Albuquerque! 

Together we made 22,857 observations of 2,138 species by 823 people.
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Greater Phoenix Area:
We had 9,702 observations of 1039 species by 283 people. 291 people also made identifications! 

Top observer: @direwolfplayz with 1,729
Most species: @larivera with 239
Most identifications: @stevejones with 1,919 

Top 3 observed species: Triangle leaf bursage, Saguaro, Brittlebush

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