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Suggestions for Improvement

  • For both gadgets:
    • Ability to sort by Most Recently Observed (
    Sort
    • followed by
    date than
    • taxonomic order)
    • Ability to sort by
    high count
    • 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

http://ebird.org/ws1.0/product/byloc/recent

Return summary of recent sightings for most active hotspot over the past 24 hours

deployed

 

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>

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).