Inaturalist Mcp

Lets an assistant search iNaturalist for species and recent observations, with no API key required.

What you can do

This local MCP server connects an assistant to iNaturalist so it can look up species and browse recent observations. The registry description states it supports searching species and recent observations, and that no key is required. No tool list is published, so the exact tool names and parameters are not documented here.

When to use it

Worth adding when you want an assistant to answer questions about wildlife species or check what has recently been observed in an area, without setting up iNaturalist credentials.

Requirements

Runs as a local process on the user's machine over stdio, installed from the npm package @mrfentmen/inaturalist-mcp, so Node.js and npm are needed. No environment variables, headers, or authentication are declared. Network access is implied by querying iNaturalist. Desktop only; no web executable.