Welcome to Season 29! These photos are from Winter 2024. Please review the information on the Talk page before getting started. Also, this project recently migrated onto Zooniverse’s new frontend codebase and design. Check out this Talk post for more details.
Welcome to Season 29! These photos are from Winter 2024. Please review the information on the Talk page before getting started. Also, this project recently migrated onto Zooniverse’s new frontend codebase and design. Check out this Talk post for more details.
Help us understand how animals—from coyotes to chipmunks—share this great city with us.
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By helping us to identify animals in photos, you are playing a critical role in our research that aims to understand how wildlife live in cities, and how we can best conserve and coexist with wildlife in our increasingly urban planet.
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To find out which animals live in Chicago, we’ve collected more than 1 million photos of wildlife from the Loop to the burbs. To ID them, though, we need your help! Chicago Wildlife Watch, developed by Lincoln Park Zoo and the Adler Planetarium, lets everyone help us understand how animals—from coyotes to chipmunks—share this great city.