ebird_species: Lookup species in eBird taxonomy

In auk: eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

Lookup species in eBird taxonomy

Description

Given a list of common or scientific names, or species codes, check that they appear in the official eBird taxonomy and convert them all to scientific names, common names, or species codes. Un-matched species are returned as NA.

Usage

ebird_species(
  x,
  type = c("scientific", "common", "code", "all"),
  taxonomy_version
)

Arguments

x	character; species to look up, provided as scientific names, English common names, species codes, or a mixture of all three. Case insensitive.
type	character; whether to return scientific names (scientific), English common names (common), or 6-letter eBird species codes (code). Alternatively, use all to return a data frame with the all the taxonomy information.
taxonomy_version	integer; the version (i.e. year) of the taxonomy. Leave empty to use the version of the taxonomy included in the package. See get_ebird_taxonomy().

Value

Character vector of species identified by scientific name, common name, or species code. If type = "all" a data frame of the taxonomy of the requested species is returned.

See Also

Other helpers: auk_ebd_version(), auk_version(), get_ebird_taxonomy(), process_barcharts()

Examples

# mix common and scientific names, case-insensitive
species <- c("Blackburnian Warbler", "Poecile atricapillus",
             "american dipper", "Caribou", "hudgod")
# note that species not in the ebird taxonomy return NA
ebird_species(species)

# use taxonomy_version to query older taxonomy versions
## Not run: 
ebird_species("Cordillera Azul Antbird")
ebird_species("Cordillera Azul Antbird", taxonomy_version = 2017)

## End(Not run)

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