Condor Watch Talk

-=- CondorWatch is 1 Year Old! -=- April 15, 2015

  • wreness by wreness moderator

    Condorwatch went Live on April 15, 2014 so today celebrates the 1 year anniversary!

    Statistics are the easy part to discuss when it comes to any "milestone" since that's the part that's typically down on paper and easy to track judge a project by.

    In our first year we have reached almost 340,000 classifications! But that's where the typical part of CondorWatch ends. You'd assume that CondorWatch is all about "watching condors" but those who are part of this project quickly learn that's not the whole story. We have also been delighted to find incredible photos of owls, skunks, mountain lions, bears, feral pigs, golden eagles, coyotes, roadrunners, kangaroo rats, humans with headlamps, weasels, rotting carcasses, jackrabbits, turkey vultures, deer, elk, cows, lizards, ravens, more ravens, vicious condor fights and even happy dances.

    On their "Citizen Scientist Tuesday" The Nature Conservancy voted CondorWatch one of the Top 10 Most Popular Citizen Scientist Projects!

    The other thing that statistics don't reveal are the wonderful people behind all the classifications who make the project what it has become. All the questions asked and answers found; the data checked for accuracy and made better; all that is observed and shared through the tireless squinting and patient photo marking, talking, messaging, posting and taking time to make suggestions on how to make things better. The (yes, funny at times!) conversations on Condorwatch are as unique as the project itself.

    In celebration we present one of Our Finest - Red7 (107) born 1994, Winner of the "Proudest Condor" in our 2014 photo contest.

    All Hail and Thank You, condorwatchers! Thank you for helping the condors survive. (More to come in the next few days on the Blog!)

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  • vjbakker by vjbakker scientist

    This post has #Dailyzoo written all over it, does it not? #Dailyzoo #Dailyzoo #Dailyzoo. Okay, there, now it does!

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  • myraf by myraf scientist

    Thank you wreness for such a great picture of the "The King of Hopper Canyon" in all his grandeur! And a HUGE THANK YOU to all the CondorWatchers! We are so grateful for your help, insight, and continued persistence (even with the raven photos!). Look out for an upcoming blog post in the next few days to acknowledge the 1 year anniversary of CondorWatch!

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  • DZM by DZM admin

    I'm going to go ahead and put this on Daily Zoo right now. 😃

    EDIT: Okay, tomorrow, then. Already something up for today!

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  • wreness by wreness moderator in response to DZM's comment.

    Thanks, DZM! Thank you, Myraf & Vj. Thanks everyone who spends their time on Condorwatch and of course thank you Red7 😄

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  • DZM by DZM admin in response to wreness's comment.

    Hope you don't mind, I pretty much copied what you wrote, word for word. I did credit it to you, though! 😃

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  • wreness by wreness moderator in response to DZM's comment.

    I live to serve 😄 Thanks, DZM for all you have done for us this year, too!

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  • vjbakker by vjbakker scientist

    And we're up today! Nice job wreness and all the condor watchers!
    http://daily.zooniverse.org/2015/04/20/condor-watch-1-year-anniversary/

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  • wreness by wreness moderator

    ALSO Gigantic 10-foot-wingspan hugs to our wonderful Condor Watch scientists who take the time to answer our questions, stick their heads in, read the comments, endure certain a Moderator's relentless moderating (not that that's happened - just a hypothetical 😄) and have cared that we care.

    You win some dancing ravens! ♬♩♬♩ ~\((''> \( ' ' )> (> '')> (^▽^) /( ' ' )> ,,(> '')> (ˆ˚ˆ)/ ♬♩♬♩

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  • Rick_N. by Rick_N.

    Congratulations Condor Watch! I hope the project goes from strength-to-strength. Neat.

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  • yshish by yshish in response to wreness's comment.

    Hilarious picture! 😃 Congratulations!!!

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