If you have an iNaturalist account, you can send a direct message to another user on iNaturalist via the website or the iNaturalist Android app (go to the side menu). Messaging is not supported in the iNaturalist iOS/iPadOS app.
To message another user on the website: you can either:
- Go to the user's profile page and click on "Message [username]". You can find a user with the header search.
- Go to https://www.inaturalist.org/messages and click on "New message"
By default iNaturalist sends an email of the message to the user. However, some users may have turned off email notifications for messages.
Note: you must have at least three verifiable observations or have made three identifications for other users before you can send a message to another user.
iNaturalist will not contact a user for you, nor will we divulge a user's contact information.
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