City Nature Challenge 2023

The biggest wildlife scavenger hunt of the year is right around the corner! The 2023 City Nature Challenge is a world-wide festival celebrating biodiversity. Join us in making citizen science observations from April 28–May 1 to showcase the amazing plants and wildlife of Coastal NC on a global stage.

All iNaturalist observations in NC’s coastal plain during the four days of the challenge will automatically be added to our region’s total species counts. This is our fourth year as a region, and we are competing with the Triangle, Charlotte Metro, Piedmont, and Western NC regions to document the most species and have the most participants. Get ready to get outdoors and help us make this the Coastal region’s best year yet!

Visiting www.citynaturechallenge.org will give you background on how it all works. If you’re in any of the following counties, your iNaturalist results will count towards the Coastal Plain count: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Suplin, Gates, Greene, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perguimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Tyrrell, Washington and Wayne.

Here’s the link to the 2023 Team Coastal NC Bioblitz page: www.inaturalist.org/projects/nc-bioblitz-2023-team-coastal-nc.

Note: Our publisher will be participating: her name on iNaturalist is ggnature4, so see whether she makes it onto this year’s leaderboard!