Peaking in late October (week 44)
Species whose records cluster in late October in Door County, Wisconsin, measured against how much the county records in the same weeks. This ranks reports, not organisms — it says when people found something worth photographing.
Nothing is peaking in late October — not because nothing is out there, but because almost nobody is looking. A typical week in June carries more than a hundred times as many records as this one.
Winter is a quarter of the year and one percent of everything ever recorded in Door County, Wisconsin. It is the emptiest part of this calendar, and the part where one observation makes the most difference. If the weather has other ideas, the county's unconfirmed records need identifying just as much, and that can be done from a warm room.
Help Confirm Records ↗Ranked by the share of a species' own record that falls in this week and the two around it, divided by the share of all county records in the same window. 11 species were considered.