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What's been seen, surfed, or heard around La Saladita lately. Wildlife entries with an iNaturalist observation ID get polled for community confirmation — the green "Verified" badge means iNaturalist's community has agreed on the ID.
Real-time observations from the village and the surrounding ~5 km. Wildlife with photos, surf with size/wind/ridable calls.
For Saladita specifically, this is the fastest signal you'll find — iNaturalist lags days, NOAA buoys are hours offshore.
Wildlife entries linked to an iNaturalist observation get polled hourly. When two or more iNat identifiers independently agree on the species, we mark it verified here.
The field log is open. If you've got a photo of a snake, bird, lizard, mushroom, plant, or anything that lives here — or a quick report on the morning's session — send it in. Observer names are never published; entries display by initials only.
Reports feed both this public log (initials only) and an internal training set (fully anonymized) used to sharpen the Saladita forecast engine.
Every wildlife entry is submitted to iNaturalist with the same photo. iNaturalist's community-vote process awards "Research Grade" status when two or more identifiers independently agree on the species. Our function polls iNat hourly and flips the Verified badge here once Research Grade is confirmed. Until then, entries show their AI-assisted ID with a confidence level (high / medium / provisional).
Observer names never appear — entries show first-letter initials only. For species protected under NOM-059-SEMARNAT (Mexican federal endangered/threatened species list), coordinates are rounded to 0.05° (~5 km), matching iNaturalist's geoprivacy standard. We don't publish exact pin locations for sensitive taxa.
Surf reports feed an internal anonymized training set (data/ground_truth/observations.jsonl) the forecast engine learns from. Observer identity is collapsed to an opaque ID before training data sees it. Only date, location, observed conditions, and the user's quality call cross over.
This is a small-radius log. Reports come from a handful of regular observers plus visitors who send things in. We undercount: nocturnal species (geckos, owls, frogs after the chorus), reclusive snakes, things that move fast (whiptails). For full regional climatology see /reptiles-amphibians/, /birds/, etc., which pull from iNaturalist's full historical dataset.