Connects Claude to iNaturalist's citizen science database of wildlife observations and species identifications. Read-only access requires no authentication. Instead of wrestling with individual tool calls, you can use ask_pipeworx to query in plain English and let the gateway handle routing and parameters. Part of the larger Pipeworx ecosystem that bundles 250+ data sources behind a single MCP endpoint. Useful when you need real-world biodiversity data, want to identify species from observations, or are building nature-related applications that benefit from crowdsourced field research. The MIT licensed server runs as a hosted gateway rather than a local process.
iNaturalist MCP — citizen-science species observations (free, no auth for read-only)
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 673+ live data sources.
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Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"inaturalist": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/inaturalist/mcp"
}
}
}
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 673+ data sources:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Inaturalist data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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