First, create an account. Next, go for a walk, hike, etc. and take pictures or record audio of the species you find. Then upload your pictures or audio recordings to the iNaturalist app or website and answer a couple of questions about where and when you made these observations. For more information, please watch the videos below.
Observations can be made on either the iNaturalist website or on the app. We highly recommend downloading their free app though, if you plan on taking pictures or recording audio with your cell phone, so you can upload directly from your phone.
Thanks to the iNaturalist community, we have been able to document the distribution of frog populations within the St. Louis area. When observations are made and confirmed by other users, those research grade observations are automatically added to our project - FrogCallSTL. If you would like to follow our project, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/frogcallstl.
Read more about how iNaturalist observations are being used by visiting the Spring Peeper Program page.