0.5.0: At a glance, sex and life stage

New

• At a glance, on each species page and in the viewer: the season of the species in the region (GBIF observations per month, with the months of your own photos highlighted), how many observations exist nearby, its status in the country of the photo (native, introduced, invasive), a few figures from Wikidata (weight, wingspan, lifespan…) and a recording when there is one. On a species page with photos from several countries, one tab per region. Everything is fetched ahead by the synchronisation, so the pages open at once.
• Sex of the animals (option, off by default: Settings > Analysis): male or female suggested in the viewer for the species in which the difference shows (mallard, blackbird, stag beetle…), and nothing for those whose sexes look alike.
• Life stage of the animals (separate option, off by default): adult, juvenile, larva or nymph suggested the same way (caterpillars, ladybird larvae, tadpoles, young gulls…).
• Groups menu on the Species and Statistics pages, the same as on the Photos page: kinds (animals, plants, fungi) and groups (birds, insects…) can be combined.

How sex and life stage work

BioCLIP is not retrained. For each confirmed species, a few dozen photos annotated by the iNaturalist community are downloaded once (not kept) to prepare a small model of that species. It is only used when it is right at least 90 % of the time on photos left aside, which is also how Taxonero knows whether the difference is visible at all. The suggestion is shown with its confidence, on the frame of the animal too, and you can always set or correct it by hand. When the model is unsure it proposes nothing and only says which way it leans. Nothing is written to the Immich tags.

Preparing a model takes one to two minutes per species, a bounded number per synchronisation: a large library fills in over several cycles.

Fixed

• Geographic check and season failed for photos taken near the antimeridian (Fiji, Chatham Islands, Aleutians) or beyond 85° of latitude.

Upgrade

Nothing to do: the database is migrated at startup. The two new options are off until you turn them on.

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