ebirdtaxonomy {rebird}

eBird Taxonomy

Description

Returns a data.frame of all taxa in the eBird taxonomy for the given combination of categories. Defaults to all categories. Any taxon with the category of 'species' may be used as a parameter in service calls that take a species code. Any taxon not in this category will be rejected by these services at this time.

Usage

ebirdtaxonomy(cat = NULL, locale = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

cat

Species category. String or character vector with one of more of: "domestic", "form", "hybrid", "intergrade", "issf", "slash", "species", "spuh". If not specified, defaults to all. For more info about the meaning of species categories, see https://ebird.org/science/use-ebird-data/the-ebird-taxonomy.

locale

Language/locale of response (when translations are available). See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html and https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000804865-bird-names-in-ebird (defaults to en_US).

key

eBird API key. You can obtain one from https://ebird.org/api/keygen. We strongly recommend storing it in your .Renviron file as an environment variable called EBIRD_KEY to avoid having to constantly supply the key, and to avoid accidentally sharing it publicly.

...

Curl options passed on to GET

Value

A data.frame containing the collected information:

"sciName": Taxon's scientific name.

"comName": Taxon's common name.

"speciesCode": Unique species code.

"category": Taxon's species category.

"taxonOrder": Numeric value determining the order in which taxonomic lists are presented.

"bandingCodes": Taxon's ABA banding code(s).

"comNameCodes": Taxon's common name code(s).

"sciNameCodes": Taxon's scientific name code(s).

"order": Taxon's order.

"familyComName": Family's common name.

"familySciName": Family's scientific name.

"reportAs": Species code to report taxon as.

"extinct": Logical, whether the taxon is considered extinct.

"extinctYear": Year taxon became extinct. Currently unavailable.

Author(s)

Andy Teucher [e-mail], Sebastian Pardo [e-mail]

References

http://ebird.org/

Examples

## Not run: 
ebirdtaxonomy()
ebirdtaxonomy(cat = c("spuh", "slash")) 

## End(Not run)