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Tracked wildlife
Follow a specific individual, pair, or colony over time, like the osprey pair on the 14th or the fox denning by the pump house.
Sometimes you are not tracking a species, you are tracking a character: the same fox, the same nesting pair, the same beaver family. A tracked subject is a named individual or group of one of your catalogue species, with its own page and history.
Track an individual or group
Open Tracked individuals (web) or Tracked (mobile) from the toolbar and add a subject, or start from a species page with Track an individual or group. Give it a name people will recognize, pick whether it is an individual or a group, and add notes and photos.
You can also make a tracked subject a resident of a habitat, so it shows up on that habitat’s page.
Using it day to day
- When logging a sighting, link it to the tracked subject and the sighting joins that subject’s timeline.
- The subject’s page shows its photos, notes, resident habitat, and every linked sighting.
- Species pages list their tracked subjects, so “how many active nests do we have” is one glance at the species.
Good to know
- A subject belongs to one species. If the species was identified wrong and gets corrected, its tracked subjects move with it automatically.