Summary: Final results for the 2025 Alberta Biodiversity Challenge have been tabulated! The bioblitz ran from June 12-15, and observations from those days could be posted up until June 30, 2025. We then left the project open for identifications until July 31. The official results are now in.
Overall, in Alberta we had 11730 observations of 1886 species, by 938 observers, identified by 677 volunteer identifiers. Top observers were @quillipede with an impressive 482 observations and @lophozia with a whopping 183 species. Compared to last year, we submitted 2735 more observations, 213 more species were documented, and 253 more people participated (combining observers and identifiers).
Similar to last year, metro-Edmonton won the Edmonton-Calgary rivalry for number of observations (2484) and species (695), but Calgary wins again this year for the overall participation, with 279 observers. Find out more details about the result at https://naturealberta.ca/2025-alberta-biodiversity-challenge-results/.
Collaborators: Nature Alberta, Greg Pohl