A ready-to-print nature report for landowners after a bioblitz
Asked for by a bioblitz organizer on the iNaturalist forum · original source
After a bioblitz, volunteers may record hundreds of species on someone's land, but often all they can hand the owner is a link. A simple tool could turn the event's sightings into a friendly report: how many species were found, counts by group (birds, bees, plants), the rare or notable finds first, then the full list in family order. Something the owner can print, keep and share.
For builders: a suggested starting point
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The weekend plan
A rough weekend-sized plan to help you start. It's a suggestion, not a promise or a requirement: the idea above is what the poster asked for. Change anything. About the steward
- Done for one weekend
- An organizer uploads the spreadsheet export of their bioblitz sightings and gets a tidy, printable report for the landowner: totals, counts by group, notable finds first, then the full species list in family order.
- Suggested shape
- Web app that reads the event's spreadsheet export from iNaturalist
- In scope
- Read the observations CSV in the browser, so the file never leaves the organizer's computer. Exporting from iNaturalist needs an account; show the organizer which columns to tick, including the family and species name extras, and explain how to re-export if they're missing.
- Count species by the species-level name, so subspecies don't count twice, and list sightings identified only to a broader group (such as "a moth") separately instead of as extra species. Show the totals: sightings, species, and counts by group such as birds, insects, plants and fungi.
- Let the organizer tick the species to feature as notable finds and add a short note to each, since the tool can't know what's rare on that land. Say plainly that the report lists what volunteers saw and is not a professional survey.
- Lay out a print-friendly report: title and date, the numbers, the notable finds, then the full list sorted by group and family with common and scientific names.
- Protect sensitive species: a report about one named property can give away where a rare plant grows, even without map points. By default, leave out sightings iNaturalist marks as obscured or private (say how many), and leave out observer names.
- Optional, if there's time
- Photos for the notable finds, only where the photo's license allows reuse, credited to the person who took it.
- A note on species with no earlier record at that place, if the organizer adds a list of past records.
- Save the report as a PDF.
Plain text with the idea, its link and this plan, for tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable. Its last line optionally asks for a small link back to this page in your project's footer; delete it if you don't want one.
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