Everything is editable, and things like descriptions, photos, videos can be added at a later date.
Don’t worry if WildObs doesn’t find your species or location immediately, those can be refined later (including being added to the WildObs database.)
Tags (keywords) are comma separated categorizations. E.g. first-of-season.
Title and Description are optional, but do enrich the encounter.
Syndicate means “this is more than the everyday encounter, it should be published as such”.
Public/Private allows you to record encounters, but not share them with anybody else.
Quickest Record Entry:
Record your Encounter (with context)
Whenever you see the following link button on the top right of a page you can enter a wildobs, and information from the page you are on will be used as defaults on that wildobs encounter. This can save both typing and look-ups.
Species page: The species (what) is defaulted.
Place page: The place (where) is defaulted.
Encounter page. The species & place are defaulted.
Image page. The photograph is defaulted.
For example if you’ve seen another encounter that you’ve posted before, you can press “Record your WildObs” on that encounter to carry over most of t he details (with the time changing to now.)
Thanks for sharing your wildlife, and guiding others to nature.
We just released WildObs Mobile for Android version 1.3 into the market with a new menu item: HOME.
The HOME button allows you to log in to WildObs Mobile and enabled features like commenting upon encounters, and allowing you to record encounters from your mobile browser.
As always, feedback is welcomed and encouraged. Please let us know how this works for you.
Login to your WildObs account from your Android device.
Record the what, where & when of your wildlife encounters. This version provides optional support for use of device GPS to capture location information speeding your wildlife recording.
Record your WildObs wildlife encounters from your Android device
With FaceBook, with Twitter, feedback mechanisms and all the online social mediums for conversations we’ve attempted to integrate WildObs into those social mediums not create yet another one. As such we resisted creating a forum system for WildObs, until now…
Some conversations are just not that social … they are quite specific, and not something to overload your friends and followers activity streams with. So, we’ve launched WildObs Forums with initially some pretty focused goals:
There have been a number of requests to for importing photographs previously uploaded to Flickr into WildObs, for use in describing a wildlife encounter. In short the process is:
Go to your wildobs photograph gallery from your home page, and use the Flickr tab.
Allow WildObs to connect to Flickr, authorizing it (typically once only) if needed.
Select the photograph or photographs you wish to import.
Create new wildlife encounters from one or more of these photographs.
Want access to your wildlife encounters when you are out an about? Want to know what you saw the last time you visited this park, beach, or location? Want to know what others have been seeing that isn’t on your life-list? If so, then WildObs Naturalist (the latest member of the WildObs family of wildlife applications) is for you.
WildObs Naturalist ... find your nature
View your recent, local and popular encounters (or encounters by tag):
WildObs Naturalist: Your encounters
Review your wildlife life-list:
Check your species life-list
See what others have seen close to where you are that is not on your life-list, then find out where to find those species locally:
WildObs Naturalist - Local species not on your Lifelist
WildObs Lookout is the latest iphone application to join the WildObs family of wildlife iphone applications. Lookout allows you to find nature around you (to “keep a lookout”) and get some ideas of what wildlife you could experience. Let crowd-sourcing help you get away from the crowds and experiencing nature…
Are you visiting a park for the first time, are you looking for something new around you? Do you have an itch to experience something new? Let the many amazing wildlife observers in the wildobs community lead you to nature. See what others are seeing, and tune in to the wildlife around you:
Lookout is location based, it shows you encounters around where you are.
Dive into each encounter:
Map the encounters, include your current location, launch Google maps for driving directions.
Expand photographs for greater detail.
Explore the species (locally, on wildobs and on the Internet w/ NWF.org and Wikipedia.)
