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I've been dabbling in amateur birdwatching for a few years now, it's honestly a lot of fun to be able to pick out local birds that I previously wouldn't have be

I've been dabbling in amateur birdwatching for a few years now, it's honestly a lot of fun to be able to pick out local birds that I previously wouldn't have been able to put a name to: recently discovered that there are Grey Catbirds[0] in my area. I wish Cornell's Ornithology lab exposed some kind of simple GET-only API, would love to be able to integrate it into some kind of chatbot to get people around me interested in the birds around them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfWx6W7B1V0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfWx6W7B1V0

ses4j 7y ago
They do have an API. It doesn't have everything but does cover a lot of interesting use-cases. https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/664302/S1ENwy59?version=latest https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/664302/S1ENwy59?versi... You can also request to download all or filtered subsets of their entire database and play with it locally. Among other things, I built this (http://empid.herokuapp.com/ http://empid.herokuapp.com/, source code at https://github.com/ses4j/empid https://github.com/ses4j/empid) using eBird data.
- rc-1140 7y ago
  I can't really tell if this is what I'm looking for. I was hoping for something that simply cataloged information about birds like the Audubon does, i.e., I can go to the page for the Purple Sandpiper[0] and see information about that bird and hear its calls. Regardless, I took a look at your project. It's very cool! [0] https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/purple-sandpiper https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/purple-sandpiper