Recent eBird Sightings Summary By Location - Version 1.0
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Summary
This API provides a summary of eBird and eTT observations for an eBird hotspot, over the past few days.
Google Gadgets
There are Google Gadgets with eBird Trail Tacker and eBird branding which can be used to consume the data provided by this API. Information about using those gadgets.
Suggestions for Improvement
- For both gadgets:
- Ability to sort by Most Recently Observed (followed by taxonomic order)
- Ability to sort by High Count (followed by taxonomic order)
- For eBird gadget:
- Show first and last name of reporting observer
- For eTT gadget:
- link to AAB species on species names
- link to map showing location of sighting (using eTT map)
- identify rarities and specialties
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API
URL | description | status | notes |
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ws/ref/country/list | Return entire list of country names and codes | not coded |
| ws/ref/country/find?match=<string to match> | Return list of country names and their codes that match | not coded | What wildcards be used in the match string?
Return summary of recent sightings for most active hotspot over the past 24 hours | deployed |
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http://ebird.org/ws1.0/product/byloc/recent?locID=L97555&locID=L259855&daysBack=7 | Return summary of recent sightings at the given locID(s) | deployed |
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Parameter Descriptions
parameter | required | default | value options | example value | description | status | ||||
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locID | no | match | yes, for /find | n/a |
| String to match against "country" names. What kind of wildcards can be used? | locID of hotspot locations | L97555 | The data summary is computed using data submitted to the given locIDs (up to three). The eBird-1.0-HotSpot web service lists valid hot spot locIDs. | deployed not coded |
locale | no | en_US | Java standard locale codes | locale in which to perform matching, and in which to provide names in response (when possible) | not coded | |||||
format | no | csv |
| format to use for response | not coded |
noCSV Result Format
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<country code>, <name associated with country code> |
XML Result Format
en_US | Language/locale of common names provided in the response (when translations are available) | deployed | ||||
daysBack | no | 0 | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | 7 | How many days backwards to look in computing the summary. Zero means use observations submitted for today. One means use observations for today and yesterday. Etc. | deployed |
Result Caching
Results are cached on the server for 30 minutes, so repeated calls to the same URL will usually result in exacted the same response. The time that the response was actually computed is provided in the header time stamp.
XML Result Format
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<header>
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<response> <header> <locale country="US" language="en"/> <timestamp>2008-0206-21T1227T15:3757:3258.546877-0504:00</timestamp> <criteria> <property nameid="matchlocID" value="L97555" description="somethingSapsucker Woods"/> </criteria> <property id="daysBack" value="7"/> <comment> </comment>criteria> </header> <result> <sighting> <species-id>cangoo</species-id> <scientific-name>Branta canadensis</scientific-name> <common-name>Canada Goose</common-name> <how-many>20</how-many> <num-checklists>2</num-checklists> <location countryCode="" >name of the country </location> <location countryCode="" >name of the country </location> <location countryCode="" >name of the country </location> </response> <obs-dt>2008-06-27</obs-dt> </sighting> <sighting> <species-id>norbob</species-id> <scientific-name>Colinus virginianus</scientific-name> <common-name>Northern Bobwhite</common-name> <how-many>1</how-many> <num-checklists>1</num-checklists> <obs-dt>2008-06-25</obs-dt> </sighting> </result> </response> |
Potential Improvements
- Support more time frames (week, month).
- Support multiple points (via point in polygon computation).
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