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Definitely some MAUP issues with this kind of presentation.

I'm surprised Herring Gull isn't tops for MA, but it being bumblebees is awesome. I have definitely seen those myself. All the more reason to keep planting wildflowers. :)

Kentucky's data was thrown off by Turtle Jones, who spends all day and night reporting common box turtle sightings.

The Eastern Common Bumblebee is rather common

Neat! 📸

observations get added to GBIF, which is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which is a global network funded by multiple governments that provides open access to species information records www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9...

I would be one of those people in regards to deer, raccoons, and the occasional black bear.

They've reposted it

WESTERN FENCE LIZARD MENTIONED 🥳🥳 (the astute observer may notice that that is my pfp)

Checks out for PA but it pains me that so many of the plants are invasive (garlic mustard for one).

(It's in the alt text on the xkcd page, but @katycroffbell.bsky.social below gives you what it is.)

common western ponderosa pine W (unbiased here)

NC needs to steal SC's cardinals.

fascinating, thank you Randall!

hey at least its something that we can eat I guess. Usually its like "this knotweed isn't edible" or "this bug is a little too gross/toxic to turn into food"

shout out to mule deer country

This is being discussed on iNat, interesting thread about the overinfluence of power observers: forum.inaturalist.org/t/today-s-xk...

Doing my part for California with a pink variant of the California Poppy: www.inaturalist.org/observations... But no western fence lizard yet! Only a southern alligator lizard: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Goals

White-tailed deer out there being a surprisingly-well-travelled celebrity.

No fireflies? No meadow larks? (Wy) No prairie dogs? No sage???

My take from this is that the US contains a lot of weed.

There do seem to be a lot of turtles in my neighborhood (it’s probably the creek a few streets over) and I report every single one of them because wow a turtle

I’m from Oklahoma and I’ve never heard of a pond slider. Cedars however are a bane to our ecosystem.

My memories of blue bellies are primary from romping in woods in places where the houses were at least a mile apart.

You can also see them in the UK - e.g. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

The Common Milkweed and Common Eastern Bumble Bee are sure living up to their monikers

this dataset is a lie oregon should say “bigfoot" and “weed”

Dammit Maine, git yer own blueberries!

CA: ✅ (with proof!) TX: ✅ NV: ❌ FML never saw any lizards there (though I saw mule deers!)

I love it when the fireweed is growing in a particularly good area for it and it towers tall enough to hide the moose in

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Data collected from NT Police Missing Persons Database.

I do love that the ponderosa pine is the most observed in Oregon, I would expect it to be the doug fir since they're friggen everywhere but it's a nice surprise. Cool looking tree for sure

Missouri bucking the trend there with the Brown-Belted Bumblebee unlike Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ilinois, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachussetts with their bog-standard Common Eastern Bumblebee obsession.

As a Mainer, ours seems skewed by people who were in coastal areas. Don't usually see gulls inland unless you're in a city that has a dump/access to water. I had to look up Canadian Bunchberry, I think maybe I've seen it, but not commonly. I get it's a one website thing, though, but still seems odd

And all of us in NJ know what to do when we spot one of those things, right?

Well, you got SC wrong. It's should be the cockroach and kudzu.

The bald cypress checks out for LA, they're everywhere and super cool to look at!

As a native Ohioan, I had to look up WTF an 'eastern pondhawk' was... and it's a bug‽ I was looking forward to a cool bird of some kind!!

Looks like there's a higher degree of continuity for plant sightings than animal ones.

No more cows in Nebraska? Guess we ate 'em all. 🤷‍♀️

I expected to see poke on there a few more times. I guess that's a bit of Facebook brainrot creeping in on my part.

all of these should be "human" and "grass"

This is fun. For New Zealand, our most commonly observed animal is the kererū (our native pigeon) and the plant is the ubiquitous native tree māhoe. I don't have individual images of these species so have added a couple of my diagrams illustrating their ecology.

Gotta hand it to Jersey. "Common mugwort" sounds like a double insult.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥WESTERN FENCE LIZARD LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I saw that and wondered if people were reporting from inside HEB or something 😂

I mean i looked em up on wikipedia and thats just a plant and an animal

Right lol like the Chicago Ants vs the Kansas City Ants meme www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

Theres a joke in there somewhere im so sure. My mind has been pavloved into finding jokes when that font is used since I was 12 I will find the joke

It's an interesting map. But XKCD has put out so many satirical data maps that a real one is thoroughly unexpected

I literally see a western fence lizard every time I leave my house. Love those little guys.

So it does, oops. Also, sorry to hear that 🤕

I don't know the eastern pond hawk I assumed it was a bird.

Youd think the most common animal seen would be: -Dog -Cat -Rat -Squirrel -Pidgeon\Grackle

🫵Dwarf Fortress player

This is more of a chart of what people consider significant or important, than what animals are actually most common.

OH SHIT IM PART OF THOSE BUMBLEBEE STATS YEAHHH

Most of the map: "Ooh, how fun!" Then I got to New Jersey and my heart sank 2 feet

Apparently a lot of wildlife (bats, birds, etc) are starting to develop a taste for the lanternflies - which is good because I'm tired of them destroying everything >:(

I live in NE PA and have a herd of white tail deer in my immediate vicinity at all times... so yeah.

A Michigan white tailed deer

Turn it around and Fireweed Moose would be the perfect stripper name

And quacks.

Can confirm Ohio. Those things are everywhere.

While Puerto Rico has quite a few Crested Anole, D.C. has a rather large quantity of Crusty A'holes.

As a DC native, I am not at all surprised that squirrels are the most often reported animal. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black squirrel outside of the District. People get excited.