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Suggestions for Improvement
- For both gadgets:
- Ability to sort by Most Recently Observed (
- followed by
- taxonomic order)
- Ability to sort by
- High Count (followed by taxonomic order)
- For eBird gadget:
- Show first and last name of reporting observer
- For eTT gadget:
- link to AAB species on species names
- link to map showing location of sighting (using eTT map)
- identify rarities and specialties
API
URL | description | status | notes |
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Return summary of recent sightings for most active hotspot over the past 24 hours | deployed |
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http://ebird.org/ws1.0/product/byloc/recent?locID=L97555&locID=L259855&daysBack=7 | Return summary of recent sightings at the given locID(s) | deployed |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<header>
<locale country="US" language="en"/>
<timestamp>2008-06-27T15:57:58.877-04:00</timestamp>
<criteria>
<property id="locID" value="L97555" description="Sapsucker Woods"/>
<property id="daysBack" value="7"/>
</criteria>
</header>
<result>
<sighting>
<species-id>cangoo</species-id>
<scientific-name>Branta canadensis</scientific-name>
<common-name>Canada Goose</common-name>
<how-many>20</how-many>
<num-checklists>2</num-checklists>
<obs-dt>2008-06-27</obs-dt>
</sighting>
<sighting>
<species-id>norbob</species-id>
<scientific-name>Colinus virginianus</scientific-name>
<common-name>Northern Bobwhite</common-name>
<how-many>1</how-many>
<num-checklists>1</num-checklists>
<obs-dt>2008-06-25</obs-dt>
</sighting>
</result>
</response>
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Enhancements
Potential Improvements
- Support more
- Link to AAB species instead of eBird reports
- link to map showing location of sighting (using kiosk map)
- Identfiy rarities and specialties
- Multiple time frames (week, month); for these, show date last observed.
- Support multiple points (via point in polygon computation).