What's New
You saw it. That still counts.
The leopard was gone before you got your phone up. Or you'd left the camera in the truck. Or the photo came back an unrecognisable blur of long grass. Until now, moments like that had nowhere to go in Veld — a real sighting, with no proof to log it against.
A silver record, still yours
You can now log a sighting without a photo at all. It's added to your life list and counts toward any Discover Pack it belongs to, same as a photographed one — just marked with a distinct silver treatment instead of gold, so your collection always shows which sightings are photo-verified and which are self-reported. Pack progress breaks the two out too, so a pack card can tell you "6 photo-verified, 2 self-reported" at a glance.
Half an ID beats no ID
Identification isn't always all-or-nothing either. When Veld's AI can only place a photo to family or genus level — not confident enough to call the exact species — it now shows a "Partially identified" result with what it does know, instead of a dead-end "no species identified." A partial answer about a genuine sighting is more useful than none.
New to the catalog
Occasionally the AI recognises something our species database doesn't have a full record for yet. Rather than quietly dropping the result, Veld now shows it as "Not yet in our catalog" — you still get the name, and the sighting still counts.
Try it
Next time you see something worth remembering but the shot doesn't happen, log it anyway from the same "Add a sighting" flow — no photo required.