eBird Web Services - Version 1.1
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Data Source | Version | Status | Notes |
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eBird | 1.1 | deployed | enhances and supersedes v1.0 API |
NOTE: Please migrate to Version 2.0 of the APIs. These 1.1
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APIs are no longer available
Endpoints
- ebird.org/ws1.1
This is the root of version 1.1. of eBird-specific web services.- ws1.1/data
This path contains data services.- ws1.1/data/obs/notablegeo/recent
This data service provides notable sightings (rare & unusual) on a state or country basis. Records returned are species oriented. (I.e. not checklists)
returns recent nearby observations - ws1.1/data/obs/geo_spp/recent
returns recent nearby observations of a species - ws1.1/data/obs/hotspot/recent
returns recent observations at hotspots - ws1.1/data/obs/hotspot_spp/recent
returns recent observations of a species at hotspots - ws1.1/data/obs/loc/recent
returns recent observations at locations - ws1.1/data/hotspot/list
This data service provides list of eBird hotspots on a state or country basis.Raw Data Services--all of obs/loc_spp/recent
returns recent observations of a species at locations - ws1.1/data/obs/region/recent
returns recent observations in a region these services return recent sighting information in the results - ws1.1/data/obs/region_spp/recent
returns recent observations of a species in a region - ws1.1/data/notable/geo/recent
returns recent nearby notable observations - ws1.1/data/obsnotable/hotspot/recent
returns recent notable observations at hotspots - ws1.1/data/notable/geoloc/recent
returns recent nearby notable observations at locations - ws1.1/data/obsnotable/geo_sppregion/recent
returns recent nearby notable observations of in a speciesregion - ws1.1/data/nearest/geo_spp/recent
returns nearest locations with observations of a species
- ws1.1/data/obs/notablegeo/recent
- ws1.1/product
This path contains products consisting of aggregated raw data.- ws1.1/product/bylocobs/hotspot/recent
This data service provides a summary of recent sightings for up to three hotspot locIDs.Life List Services birding hotspots.
- ws1.1/product/bylocobs/hotspot/recent
- ws1.1/ref
This path contains supporting lookup services for the /data and /product services- product/lifelist/life
- ws1.1/product/lifelist/yearref/taxa
returns species in the ebird taxonomy - ws1.1/productref/lifelist/monthhotspot/region
provides a list of eBird hotspots for a given region, optionally filtered to those with recent data - ws1.1/ref
This path contains supporting lookup services for the /data and /product services- /hotspot/geo
provides a list of nearby eBird hotspots, optionally filtered to those with recent data - ws1.1/ref/location
returns location-based look-up data - eBird-1.1-SpeciesReference
- ws1.1/product/lifelist/yearref/taxa
- ebird.org/wstools1.1
This is location of gadget code and demo pages. - ebird.org/tools/google
This is location of original gadget code and demo pages.- ebird.org/tools/google/notable-birds.xml
This is location of gadget code for notable birds by state within the US. - ebird.org/tools/google/notable-birds-canada.xml
This is location of gadget code for notable birds by province/territory within the Canada
- ebird.org/tools/google/notable-birds.xml
- ebird.org/wsresource1.1
This is the root of the static resources that version 1.1 of the web services require. - wsresource1.1/images
- wsresource1.1/css
- wsresource1.1/js
- ws1.1/data
Resources
The current eBird taxonomy can be downloaded here. The following table might be helpful for encoding a scientific name within a URL:
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Character
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Encoding
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Space
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<ac:structured-macro ac:name="unmigrated-wiki-markup" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="9d1ba76c-3b37-414d-a077-9d37d0555107"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[
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Left Square Bracket ("[")
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Right Square Bracket ("]")
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Making Sense of Endpoint URLs
There is a rational behind the URLs we use for endpoints. Find out what they mean.
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Forward slash/Virgule ("/")
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