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Easter Sunday Nature Hunt
April 17 All day
Join Us this Easter for a Nature Hunt
The hunt starts on Easter Sunday for anything that swims, flies, grows, crawls and hides! Visit your local reserve or any natural area and see what you can find.
You will be using the iNaturalist NZ website so you need to install the iNaturalist NZ app on your mobile and focus on nature.
Join the fun and discover the nature that lives in and around your local reserve!
BioBlitz is a scientific race against time to count as many different species as you can in a 24-hour period. Throughout Easter Sunday you can become a Citizen Scientist, it’s up to you whether you spend an hour or all day as a Nature Detective.
Challenge yourself to find creatures that only come out early in the morning or in the dark?
For all ages 1 to 100!
Instructions
What You Need
Mobile phone with camera and iNaturalist app or
Digital camera (if you don’t have a mobile phone) and computer with internet access to iNaturalist website.
Optional – pen and paper, homemade tracking tunnel, hand lens, binoculars.
How
Sign up for a free iNaturalist account. Then click this link to join the Project Easter Sunday Nature Hunt 2022 or search ‘Projects’ and join the ‘Easter Sunday Nature Hunt 2022’
To learn how to use iNaturalist before Sunday click here to watch video tutorials, find out more and download the app.
Some of the things you might find include:
Mammals; cats, hedgehogs, rats, possums (see how to make a tracking tunnel before Easter Sunday); plants, weeds; worms; bugs; lizards; moths. Listening and looking for birds – you can record and upload sounds on iNaturalist.
If you wish to make your own tracking tunnel, to put out on Saturday night and record mammals and lizards click here for instructions.
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A big thank you to our wonderful sponsors! We extend our sincere appreciation to all our sponsors, Rata Foundation, Selwyn District Council, COGS, Lottery Community, Lincoln University, Creative Communities Scheme, Lincoln Community Trust, Lincoln Community Committee.