New feature: duplicate a sighting

It's relatively common for people to upload sightings which may actually contain multiple species.

E.g. photos of a plant that may also have captured an insect on one of the leaves OR a photo containing 2 birds where it may be unclear which bird species the sighting is pertaining to.

Thanks to funding from NSW BCT, it is now much easier to duplicate a sighting, effectively splitting it into 2 separate, but similar records, so that each species can be verified as separate and distinct sightings.

To duplicate a sighting, simply:

1. EDIT an existing sighting

2. Click the new Duplicate button

3. Make any required changes

Note that the following pieces of information have been automatically pre-populated from the original source sighting:

• Image or audio media files
• Latitude and longitude coordinates
• Altitude
• Reported Date Time

Species name and abundance are not pre-populated from the original source sighting as the new duplicate record should be of a different species.

(NatureMapr prevents the creation of an identical record of the same species at the same location on the same date/time).

4. Upload the new duplicate sighting

Click the usual Report this sighting button and you're done.

You're newly duplicated sighting will be created and include the changes that you made.