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h2. Description

Returns a list of orders, families and species which are covered by Neotropical Birds Online as well as the status of each species account in Neotropical Birds.

 This is part of the [Neotropical Birds version 1.0 API|NeotropicalBirds-1.0].

h2. URL

*Base URL*

[http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/ws1.0/ref/taxa]

h2.


h2. Result Fields

|| *Field (XML)* ||  *Attribute* || *Description* ||
| taxon-list |  | Parent tag |
| taxon-list | template-url | Partial URL for a link to a Neotropical Birds species account |
| taxon-list | locale | Parent tag |
| com-name | Common name |
| sci-name | Scientific name |
| com-name | Common name |

h3. Example Responses


h4. CSV

{noformat}
Rhea americana,Greater Rhea
Rhea pennata,Lesser Rhea
{noformat}

h4. XML

{noformat}
<response>
    <header>
        <locale country="" language="en"/>
        <timestamp>
            2009-07-08T10:39:42.150-04:00
        </timestamp>
        <criteria>
            <locale country="" language="en"/>
            <cat>
                species
            </cat>
            <version>
                1.049
            </version>
            <fmt>
                xml
            </fmt>
        </criteria>
    </header>
    <result>
    <taxa>
        <com-name>
            Greater Rhea
        </com-name>
        <sci-name>
            Rhea americana
        </sci-name>
    </taxa>
    <taxa>
        <com-name>
            Lesser Rhea
        </com-name>
        <sci-name>
            Rhea pennata
        </sci-name>
    </taxa>
</response>
{noformat}

h2. Caching Information

For details on caching of results by our servers, see [eBird-1.1-CacheInformation]
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