City Nature Challenge ABQ

City Nature Challenge ABQ Join City Nature Challenge ABQ and the world! Sign up on inaturalist.org or download the app.

City Nature Challenge is a global community science effort to find and document urban biodiversity annually each spring during the last weekend of April/beginning of May. Everyone within the boundaries of Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Valencia Co., NM can participate by finding and photographing plants, birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fungi, animal sign, and any other wildlife in your a

rea, and submitting your photos to iNaturalist over the 4 day challenge, and continue to ID observations the following week. ABQCityNature.org

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iNaturalist tutorials:
https://youtu.be/M7qX807Cmx4
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials

FAQs:
https://citynaturechallenge.org/cnc-faqs-page/

Michael Cox, devoncox on iNaturalist.org, took 2nd place for number of species this year with 324!Michael considers hims...
06/05/2026

Michael Cox, devoncox on iNaturalist.org, took 2nd place for number of species this year with 324!

Michael considers himself a generalist, documenting all the plants he can find, photographing everything from charismatic to not-so-noticeable wildlife and their evidence, including insect galls and fungi.

Michael really delved into being a naturalist and volunteering across our area in the past decade plus, becoming part of Bernalillo County Master Naturalists, an educator at the Sandia Mountain Natural History Center, and forming his own animal tracking group- Duke City Trackheads. Check them out if you want to learn to read the animal sign all around you!

For another year, Moses J. Michelsohn, pecosvalleydiamond on iNaturalist.org , recorded the most species during our City...
05/29/2026

For another year, Moses J. Michelsohn, pecosvalleydiamond on iNaturalist.org , recorded the most species during our City Nature Challenge this year with 384 species!

45% of his finds were insects and arachnids, which shows how closely Moses looked for observations.

Thank you for all your contributions to !

Happy ! A good day to take a lesson from a turtle and take it nice and slow- go for a swim or bask in the sun!Pond sli...
05/23/2026

Happy ! A good day to take a lesson from a turtle and take it nice and slow- go for a swim or bask in the sun!

Pond slider photo by Michael Cox
Spiny softshell photo by Oliver Patrick
Common snapping turtle photo by Colleen McKee

On this , enjoy these great closeups that our community captured of bees during City Nature Challenge as they visit flo...
05/20/2026

On this , enjoy these great closeups that our community captured of bees during City Nature Challenge as they visit flowers to drink sweet nectar, getting covered in pollen grains.

Photos by:
Karen Gaines, Laurel Ladwig, Miranda Kersten, and Mike Andersen

This year was the 11th year of the global City Nature Challenge. This infographic highlights the stats and some notable ...
05/15/2026

This year was the 11th year of the global City Nature Challenge. This infographic highlights the stats and some notable observations from around the world.

The global City Nature Challenge results are in!Over 76,000 species were observed across 754 cities.5,000 of them are ra...
05/13/2026

The global City Nature Challenge results are in!
Over 76,000 species were observed across 754 cities.
5,000 of them are rare, endangered, or threatened.
70+ species never before recorded on iNaturalist.org were found.

Join us tomorrow 10-1 at the to identify together before Sunday's deadline! Check in at the table out front and follow ...
05/08/2026

Join us tomorrow 10-1 at the to identify together before Sunday's deadline! Check in at the table out front and follow signs back to the education classroom. There will be snacks.

We've got half of our observations to research grade- how much higher can we get? And can we ID 27 more species to get to 1,500?

Or just keep on identifying all you can on your own! Thank you to 542 of you who have so far 😮

Grasshopper photo by students at


Join us tomorrow 10-1 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science to identify together before Sunday's deadlin...
05/08/2026

Join us tomorrow 10-1 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science to identify together before Sunday's deadline! Check in at the table out front and follow signs back to the education classroom. There will be snacks.

We've got half of our observations to research grade- how much higher can we get? And can we ID 27 more species to get to 1,500?

Or just keep on identifying all you can on your own. Thank you to 542 of you who have so far 😮

Grasshopper photo by students at Lavaland Elementary School!

Albuquerque Public Schools

Have you gotten on to iNaturalist.org yet to help us ID? Do so thru this Sunday, May 10th! Help us with the half of our...
05/06/2026

Have you gotten on to iNaturalist.org yet to help us ID? Do so thru this Sunday, May 10th!

Help us with the half of our observations that still need to be identified or confirmed, so we can up our species count and provide "research grade" data to scientists.

Head to our Identify page and filter for what you want to focus on or browse them all:
inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=city-nature-challenge-2026-abq

Use iNaturalist.org Identification guides to learn how to sort different categories:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/citynaturechallenge/

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