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I love iNaturalist and am sometimes blown away by the automatic suggestions. I use it for birds, plants, bugs, mushrooms, trees, everything. Some time ago they added audio clips as well. It would be great to see more of these open communities inter-connected and sharing their databases.

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Most of these platforms contribute their GBIF which aggregates it together. I contribute my sightings to iNaturaliast, but when I need the data for occurrences pull GBIF. I think this is perfect, because each site can compete on the best reporting interface, while not fragmenting data for data consumers.

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