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Easter Sunday Nature Hunt

Lincoln Envirotown Coordinator from Lincoln Envirotown

Join Us this Easter for a Nature Hunt in your own backyard.
The hunt takes place on Easter Sunday for anything that swims, flies, grows, crawls.

You will be using the iNaturalist NZ website so you need to get your mobile phone, install the iNaturalist NZ app and focus on nature (you also can take part on laptop with internet access) .

Discover the nature that lives around and in your home, local reserve or further afield.

Get your mobile phone, install the iNaturalist app and focus on nature.

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
You will be using the iNaturalist NZ website so you need to get your mobile phone, install the iNaturalist NZ app, and focus on nature (you also can take part on laptop with internet access) .

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
Go to the iNaturalist website for full instructions on how to use the app.

Then join the iNaturalist Project 'Easter Sunday Nature Hunt 2022' .



Some of the things you might find include:
Mammals - Cats, hedgehogs, rats, possums (see how to make a tracking tunnel before Easter Sunday), Weeds, Worms, Bugs, Lizards, Moths, Listening and looking for birds - you can record and upload sounds on iNaturalist.




Lincoln Envirotown Sponsors
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 and Lincoln University.

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