Current tally for the 2016 See All the Wild Species Project

Species seen in 2016 as of the last of May, with the tally from last month in parenthesis:

vascular plants: 296 (106)
mosses: 178 (157)
lichens: 86 (80)
birds: 76 (52)
fungi: 54 (51)
insects: 43 (9)
other invertebrates: 27 (15)
other vertebrates: 10 (3)
other plants: 4 (2)

total: 774 (475)

Whoo, look at the vascular plants taking off now that it's spring. Insects, too. I have probably seen more mosses than that, but I have a backlog of as-yet-undetermined collected stuff. The new species in "other invertebrates" is mostly various gall-causing plant mites, which are host-specific and easy to determine from their galls without examining the actual mites.