inaturalist-mcp-server

Quality 81 / 100good

10 tools, about 8,749 tokens to load them all · tool set 4707ac679083 · tools last changed 2026-09-24 · checked 2026-10-20 18:06 UTC

Tool changes

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_get_similar_specieschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
  before

  List the taxa this one is most often misidentified as, ranked by how many times identifiers made the correction — the field-identification check before committing to a look-alike. Scope it to an area in exactly one form (place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box) to see the confusion set a specific region actually produces, or leave the area off for the global set. Resolve the organism name to a taxon id with inaturalist_resolve_name first.

  after · 83% of words in common

  List the taxa this one is most often misidentified as, ranked by how many times identifiers made the correction — the field-identification check before committing to a look-alike. Scope it to an area in exactly one form (place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box) to see the confusion set a specific region actually produces, or leave the area off for the global set. The taxon must be a genus or finer (genus, species, or below) — upstream keeps no confusion set for a family, order, or anything coarser. Resolve the organism name to a taxon id with inaturalist_resolve_name first.

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_get_leaderboardchangedoutput schema
• 2026-09-24inaturalist_get_histogramchangeddescription, input schema, output schema
  before

  Build a phenology histogram for a taxon in an area — which months, weeks, or years it is recorded in. The default month_of_year interval answers "when does this bloom or appear here" in twelve buckets; the absolute intervals (year, month, week, day, hour) bucket real dates and upstream applies a default start date to them. An area is given in exactly one form: place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box. Omit taxon_id to chart every taxon in the area. Defaults to research-grade, wild-only records and echoes those defaults back.

  after · 80% of words in common

  Build a phenology histogram for a taxon in an area — which months, weeks, or years it is recorded in. The default month_of_year interval answers "when does this bloom or appear here" in twelve buckets; the absolute intervals (year, month, week, day, hour) bucket real dates and upstream applies a default start date to them. An area is given in exactly one form: place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box. Omit taxon_id to chart every taxon in the area. Narrow to one life stage or reproductive state with an annotation pair (term_id and term_value_id, e.g. Life Stage = Larva, or Flowers and Fruits = Flowers), or to broad groups with iconic_taxa. Defaults to research-grade, wild-only records and echoes those defaults back.

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_get_species_countschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
  before

  Rank the distinct species recorded in an area and period, most-observed first — the "what lives here" answer, without paging through individual sightings. An area is given in exactly one form: place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box. Narrow to a clade by passing taxon_id, e.g. the birds of a park. Defaults to research-grade, wild-only records and echoes those defaults back. For the most active people rather than the most recorded species, use inaturalist_get_leaderboard.

  after · 95% of words in common

  Rank the distinct species recorded in an area and period, most-observed first — the "what lives here" answer, without paging through individual sightings. An area is given in exactly one form: place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box. Narrow to a clade by passing taxon_id, e.g. the birds of a park, or to one observer or one project by user_id, user_login, or project_id. Defaults to research-grade, wild-only records and echoes those defaults back. For the most active people rather than the most recorded species, use inaturalist_get_leaderboard.

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_get_observationchangeddescription, input schema, output schema
  before

  Fetch up to 10 observations by id with their community identification thread — who identified what, whether each identification agrees, and the consensus taxon the community landed on. The whole batch costs one upstream request, so resolving ten ids here is far cheaper than ten separate lookups. A missing id is reported per id in unresolved rather than failing the batch; the call fails only when nothing resolved.

  after · 62% of words in common

  Fetch up to 10 observations by id with their community identification thread — who identified what, whether each identification agrees, and the consensus taxon the community landed on. The whole batch costs one upstream request, so resolving ten ids here is far cheaper than ten separate lookups. Records come back in the requested order. A missing id is reported per id in unresolved rather than failing the batch; the call fails only when nothing resolved. Long threads and long observation-field lists are cut to fit one response budget shared across the batch — up to 40 identifications, 40 comments, and 40 filled fields for a single id, 4 of each per record for ten — and every record reports the size of each array beside what it kept.

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_search_observationschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
  before

  Search georeferenced wildlife sightings by area, date, taxon, quality grade, annotation, and conservation status. Returns a projected record per sighting with coordinates, licence, first photo, and identification counts. An area is given in exactly one form — place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box — and defaults to research-grade, wild-only records, which are echoed back on every call. Identifications and comments are deliberately not expandable here (one thread is 28 KB); fetch them for specific records with inaturalist_get_observation. Results past 10,000 need the cursor from the previous page rather than a higher page number.

  after · 80% of words in common

  Search georeferenced wildlife sightings by area, date, taxon, quality grade, annotation, conservation status, observer, project, and licence. Returns a projected record per sighting with coordinates, licence, first photo, and identification counts. An area is given in exactly one form — place_id, the lat/lng/radius triple in kilometres, or a four-corner bounding box — and defaults to research-grade, wild-only records, which are echoed back on every call. Identifications and comments are deliberately not expandable here (one thread is 28 KB); fetch them for specific records with inaturalist_get_observation. page walks the first 10,000 results under any ordering; past 10,000, order by id descending (order_by "id", order "desc") and pass each page’s next_cursor as cursor.

• 2026-09-24inaturalist_list_referencechangedoutput schema

Full history: list_changes · trend: quality JSON.

Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed. How it is computed.