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)
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!
Check out the global stats here.
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.
See the competition.
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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