BioBlitz City Nature Challenge

We need your help to track and identify the wildlife in Davis! Join us for the Davis Bioblitz from 9am-11am at the Wyatt Deck, located within the UC Davis Arboretum. Participants will take photos of plants, animals, and fungi, and upload these observations to the community science platform, iNaturalist. All you need to bring is a smartphone or a photo-taking device. We will have a table with small lenses, bug boxes, field guides, insect specimens, and more to help you make observations of wildlife. Local experts will also be available to assist in identifying the wildlife.

This event will be hosted in coordination with the City Nature Challenge Sacramento. The City Nature Challenge is an annual competition among cities around the globe with the goal of documenting the most biodiversity within a four day period. This year, the CNC will run from April 28 – May 1, 2023, so any observations of wildlife that are uploaded to iNaturalist will contribute to the 2023 CNC. At the end of the CNC, the region with the most observations wins. We are looking to make as many quality observations as we can during the Davis Bioblitz, so stop by the Shields Gazebo to help contribute observations to the Greater Sacramento Region!

Driving directions: Take 1-80 to the Richards Blvd. Exit (toward downtown). Go under the underpass. Turn left on 1st Street. Turn left onto Old Davis Road and cross a small bridge over the Arboretum Waterway. Parking is available at Visitor Parking Lot 5, straight ahead from the stop sign at Old Davis Road and Arboretum Drive. Wyatt Deck is located at the west end of the Redwood Grove, across Arboretum Drive from the Wyatt Pavilion Theater.