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Description
Returns a list of all species in the eBird taxonomy for the given combination of categories. The default category is "species". Any taxon with the category of 'species' may be used as a parameter in service calls that take a scientific name. Any taxon not in this category will be rejected by these services at this time.
This is part of the eBird version 1.1 API.
URL
Base URL
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http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa
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Examples
Minimal:
http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa/ebird
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Fully
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specified:
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http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa/ebird?cat=species&fmt=xml&locale=en_US
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Parameter Descriptions
Parameter Name | Required | Default | Value Options | Example Value | Description |
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cat | no | species | domestic,form,hybrid,intergrade,issf,slash,species,spuh |
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hybrid | For more info about the meaning of species categories, see http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/ebird-taxonomy |
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locale | no | en_US |
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fr_CA,es_MX,es_PR,ht_HT,fr,fr_HT,es_CU,es_PA,es_DO,en_NZ,es,es_CL |
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fr_CA |
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locale |
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for |
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taxon |
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common |
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fmt | no | csv | xml,csv | xml |
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Resources
The human readable version of the current eBird taxonomy can also be downloaded here.
Result Fields
Field (XML) | Description |
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sci-name | Scientific name |
com-name | Common name |
taxon-id | Taxonomic Concept identifier, note this is currently in test |
Example Responses
CSV
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h3. Resources
The human readable version of the current eBird taxonomy can also be downloaded [here|http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/ebird-taxonomy].
h2. Result Fields
|| *Field (XML)* || *Description* ||
| sci-name | Scientific name |
| com-name | Common name |
| taxon-id | Taxonomic Concept identifier, note this is currently in test |
h3. Example Responses
h4. CSV
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Rhea americana,Greater Rhea,TC000004
Rhea pennata,Lesser Rhea, TC000005
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XML
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{noformat} h4. XML {noformat} <response> <header> <locale country="" language="en"/> <timestamp> 2009-07-08T10:39:42.150-04:00 </timestamp> <criteria> <locale country="" language="en"/> <cat> species </cat> <fmt> xml </fmt> </criteria> </header> <result> <taxa> <com-name> Greater Rhea </com-name> <sci-name> Rhea americana </sci-name> <taxon-id> TC00000004 </taxon-id> </taxa> <taxa> <com-name> Lesser Rhea </com-name> <sci-name> Rhea pennata </sci-name> <taxon-id> TC00000005 </taxon-id> </taxa> </response> {noformat} h2. Caching Information For details on caching of results by our servers, see [ |
Caching Information
For details on caching of results by our servers, see eBird-1.1-CacheInformation
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