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Parameter Name | Required | Default | Value Options | Example Value | Description |
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cat | no | species | subspecies,slash,domestic,species,spuh,hybrid | hybrid | For more info about the meaning of species categories, see http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/ebird-taxonomy |
locale | no | en_US | fr_CA,es_MX,es_PR,ht_HT,fr,fr_HT,es_CU,es_PA,es_DO,en_NZ,es,es_CL | fr_CA | The locale for the taxon common name |
fmt | no | csv | xml,csv | xml |
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version | no | 1.049 | 1.049 | 1.049 | the taxonomic authority version number |
Resources
The current eBird taxonomy can be downloaded here. The following table might be helpful for encoding a scientific name within a URL:
Character | Encoding | ||
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Space | %20 | ||
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="unmigrated-wiki-markup" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="75c78b8c-3d9e-4816-aadb-e9f913acd576"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[ | Left Square Bracket ("[") | %5B | ]]></ac:plain-text-body></ac:structured-macro> |
Right Square Bracket ("]") | %5D | ||
Forward slash/Virgule ("/") | %2F |
Result Field Descriptions
Field (XML) | Description |
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sci-name | Scientific name |
com-name | Common name |