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BioBlitz at Seven Islands State Birding Park
September 20 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Join us for a BioBlitz on Friday, September 20 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. organized by Discover Life in America and Seven Islands State Birding Park. This is a free and family-friendly event to participate in community science and learn about nature!
- 🤳Learn how to use the free community science iNaturalist app, to document and identify life—anywhere in the world!
- 🔍Join guided hikes with expert naturalists from Discover Life in America and Seven Islands State Birding Park!
- 🌳Meet others in your community who also love to learn about nature!
What’s a bioblitz?
During a bioblitz, volunteers help document as many kinds of animals, plants, and other organisms as we can find in a specific area. It’s also an opportunity for you to be a community scientist, gathering real scientific data, while also learning about the local flora and fauna living around you. We will be walking the trails, looking for bugs, flowers, salamanders, and other living organisms. We’ll photograph them with our phones and post pictures to our iNaturalist project. We’ll have experts on hand to guide small groups point out interesting facts about the organisms we see, and teach you how to use the iNaturalist app.
What will we be doing?
Walking the trails, looking for bugs, flowers, salamanders, and anything else we can find. We’ll photograph them with our phones and post pictures to our iNaturalist project. It’ll be a fun morning of outdoor time in a gorgeous natural space and we’ll have experts on hand to guide small groups around the trail and point out interesting facts about the organisms we see.
Afterward you can see what kind of organisms we found by visiting the project on iNaturalist, which will be left up indefinitely. We encourage you to revisit the Loyston Point trails and post what you find! Making iNaturalist observations helps TVA know what’s out there so they can better manage and protect these public lands.
Before the event
- Download iNaturalist to your phone (it’s free!)
- Follow prompts in the app to create an iNaturalist account
- Bring water and some snacks (we’ll also provide water)
- Wear weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy shoes for hiking
Get the iNaturalist app.
Download the app. Log in. Try it out.
Free