Nantucket BioBlitz

Annually in July, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation partners with the Nantucket Land and Water Council on a BioBlitz powered by iNaturalist to discover flora and fauna across Nantucket.

What’s a BioBlitz, you ask? A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. We focus on any species seen anywhere on Nantucket during the month of July. The BioBlitz is organized through a free app and website iNaturalist, which keeps a list of your observations and helps identify what you’ve seen with a community of scientists, hobby naturalists, and nature enthusiasts.

While you’re out and about in nature, take a quality photo of insects, plants, or any “signs of life” you see like nests or shells, and iNaturalist’s community members of scientists and nature enthusiasts will help identify what you found.

iNaturalist also has online maps that show what other people have recorded, and where they found it.

You can view the species seen anytime on our project page by clicking here.

Click here for great tutorials on using iNaturalist, or check out this printable instruction sheet.