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location | exactly one location parameter is required | subnational1 | eBird standard subnational1 codes | US-FL | n/a | |||||
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| country | 2-letter ISO codes | CA | n/a | |||||
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| bcr | integers 1-64? | 14 | n/a | |||||
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| subnational2 | eBird standard subnational2 codes |
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| beginYear | defines beginning of period of interest, in YYYY format | 2000 | ???? | |||||
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collection |
| collection | AKN collection codes, eBird project IDs; initially there will be no away to request the entirety of AKN data as a collection | EBIRD_PR | n/a | |||||
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species |
| species | either "all" or scientific name of single species of interest; we will handle lists of species at a later date | Sialia sialis | all | |||||
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| output | "f" = returns frequency (float, 0.0-1.0) | f | f | |||||
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| locale | Java standard locale codes | en_US | en_US | |||||
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Supporting web services needed
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CSV Format Output (or tab delimited)
- if S species are returned, the response has S+1 rows
- row #1 1 contains N for each of 48 "weeks"
- rows 2 through S+1 contain species name and frequency (0 <= frequency <= 1)
- the response contains 50 columns
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- column 1 :: sci. name
- column 2 :: common name
- columns 3-50 :: frequency or category
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- frequency value (rounded to a just few digits)
- or, a categorical value
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