
City Nature Challenge Texas
2023 Final Results
Congratulations to all the 2023 City Nature Challenge participating cities and metro areas for another success year of citizen science contribution! More than 6,050 citizen scientists recorded 173,685 observations of 7,647 species (as of June 30, 2023) from El Paso to Houston, Amarillo and Wichita Falls to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Among those more than 7,000 species were 3,000 observations of 124 Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Below are the results for each metropolitan area as well as a link to each project on iNaturalist.
Take the City Nature Challenge!
Join Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Master Naturalists, the Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy and others in a fun challenge to see which city can document the most species. It is easy to participate by joining an event or making observations on your own using iNaturalist — sign up on iNaturalist.org and download the App for your device: iNaturalist for iOS and iNaturalist for Android.
Once again, this year you can participate in City Nature Challenge even if you don’t live in one of the metro areas. Visit City Nature Challenge 2023 Global Project. Simply click on the link, join the project and you are ready to join the fun.
With the iNaturalist App, you just take a picture of a plant or animal and the community will help identify what species it is.
Any observation made during the four days of the event in the greater metropolitan area of each city will count towards the challenge.
You can participate by exploring the life in your backyard, in your local park or on a field trip with your local naturalist group.
To find out if your metro area is participating, check the list below and get involved! Not only is this a competition between metropolitan areas across Texas, cities across the world are participating — let's show them what we've got! Be sure to check out the City Nature Challenge Website to see the list of global participants.
For answers to your questions or for more information, contact our Texas Nature Tracker biologists at tracker@tpwd.texas.gov.
If you’re new to iNaturalist, learn more with the iNaturalist Getting Started Guide.
City Nature Challenge Texas 2023 iNaturalist Projects & Final Results
Participating Texas Metro Areas
Abilene/Big Country City Nature Challenge
Abilene/Big Country Final Report
Amarillo City Nature Challenge
Amarillo Final Report
Austin City Nature Challenge
Austin Final Report
Brazos Valley City Nature Challenge
Brazos Valley Final Report
Corpus Christi Area City Nature Challenge
Corpus Christi and Mustang Island Final Report
Dallas-Fort Worth City Nature Challenge
Dallas-Fort Worth Final Report
El Paso City Nature Challenge
El Paso Final Report
Houston-Galveston City Nature Challenge
Houston-Galveston Final Report
Lower Rio Grande Valley City Nature Challenge
Lower Rio Grande Valley Final Report
Lubbock City Nature Challenge
Lubbock Final Report
Port Aransas & Mustang Island City Nature Challenge
Port Aransas & Mustang Island Final Report
San Antonio City Nature Challenge
San Antonio Final Report
Tyler/East Texas City Nature Challenge
Tyler/East Texas Final Report
Waco/Heart of Texas City Nature Challenge
Heart of Texas Final Report
Wichita Falls City Nature Challenge
Wichita Falls Final Report
Resources
The City Nature Challenge is organized by the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

