ebird_taxonomy

A simplified version of the taxonomy used by eBird. Includes proper species
as well as various other categories such as <code>spuh</code> (e.g. duck sp.) and
slash (e.g. American Black Duck/Mallard). This taxonomy is based on the
Clements Checklist, which is updated annually, typically in the late summer.
Non-ASCII characters (e.g. those with accents) have been converted to ASCII
equivalents in this data frame.

datasets

Extract and process bird sightings records from eBird
(<http://ebird.org>), an online tool for recording bird observations.
Public access to the full eBird database is via the eBird Basic Dataset
(EBD; see <http://ebird.org/ebird/data/download> for access), a downloadable
text file. This package is an interface to AWK for extracting data from the
EBD based on taxonomic, spatial, or temporal filters, to produce a
manageable file size that can be imported into R.

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

eBird Data Extraction and Processing with AWK

Eliot Miller

Wesley Hochachka

Cornell Lab of Ornithology 

ebird_taxonomy function

A data frame with eight variables and 15,251 rows:<ul>
<li><code>taxon_order</code>: numeric value used to sort rows in taxonomic order.</li>
<li><code>category</code>: whether the entry is for a species or another
field-identifiable taxon, such as <code>spuh</code>, <code>slash</code>, <code>hybrid</code>, etc.</li>
<li><code>species_code</code>: a unique alphanumeric code identifying each species.</li>
<li><code>common_name</code>: the common name of the species as used in eBird.</li>
<li><code>scientific_name</code>: the scientific name of the species.</li>
<li><code>order</code>: the scientific name of the order that the species belongs to.</li>
<li><code>family</code>: the family of the species, in the form "Parulidae (New World
Warblers)".</li>
<li><code>report_as</code>: for taxa that can be resolved to true species (i.e. species,
subspecies, and recognizable forms), this field links to the corresponding
species code. For taxa that can't be resolved, this field is <code>NA</code>.</li>
</ul>For further details, see <a href="http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/1006825-the-ebird-taxonomy">http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/1006825-the-ebird-taxonomy</a>

ebird_taxonomy: eBird Taxonomy

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