Checklist feed on a date at a region or hotspot

Returns checklist-level information reported in a given region or hotspot. Note only bird information is species count.

Usage

ebirdchecklistfeed(loc, date, max = 10, sleep = 0, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

loc

(required) Region code or locID (if a hotspot). Region code can be country code (e.g. "US"), subnational1 code (states/provinces, e.g. "US-NV"), or subnational2 code (counties, e.g. "US-VA-003").

date

(required) Date of historic observation date formatted according to ISO 8601 (e.g. 'YYYY-MM-DD', or 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm'). Hours and minutes are excluded.

max

Maximum number of result rows to return in this request (between 1 and 200, default 10)

sleep

Time (in seconds) before function sends API call. The defaults is zero. Set this to a higher number if you are using this function in a loop with many API calls.

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.

...

Curl options passed on to GET.

Value

A data.frame containing the collected information:

"locId": unique identifier for the locations

"subId": submission (checklist) identifier

"userDisplayName": first and last name of the observer

"numSpecies": number of species reported

"obsDt": observation date formatted according to ISO 8601 (e.g. 'YYYY-MM-DD', or 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm'). Hours and minutes are excluded if the observer did not report an observation time

"obsTime": observation time (24hr)

"isoObsDate": ISO observation date and time

"subID": deprecated submission identifier

"loc": delimited string of location descriptors

References

http://ebird.org/

Author

Marianna Foos marianna.foos@gmail.com

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
ebirdchecklistfeed(loc = "L207391", date = "2020-03-24", max = 10)
} # }