Evidence-backed facts
- The iNaturalist API exposes public observations, taxa, identifications, places, projects, users, annotations, and search metadata through versioned endpoints. informative
- Public reads are separate from OAuth-protected contribution and account operations; access does not grant observer identity, curator, research-grade, or platform authority. informative
- Clients must bind taxon, place, date, quality grade, geoprivacy-compatible location, fields, sorting, paging, and rate guidance and preserve observation and license metadata. informative
- Observations and community identifications can be misidentified, obscured, captive, duplicated, or revised and do not prove species presence at an exact private location or expert validation. informative