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
http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa
Examples
Minimal:
http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa/ebird
Fully specified:
http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/taxa/ebird?cat=species&fmt=xml&locale=en_US
Parameter Descriptions
Parameter Name |
Required |
Default |
Value Options |
Example Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cat |
no |
species |
domestic,form,hybrid,intergrade,issf,slash,species,spuh |
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 |
|
Resources
The human readable version of the current eBird taxonomy can also be downloaded here.
Result Fields
Field (XML) |
Description |
|---|---|
sci-name |
Scientific name |
com-name |
Common name |
taxon-id |
Taxonomic Concept identifier, note this is currently in test |
Example Responses
CSV
Rhea americana,Greater Rhea,TC000004 Rhea pennata,Lesser Rhea, TC000005
XML
<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>
Caching Information
For details on caching of results by our servers, see eBird-1.1-CacheInformation
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