ebirdhotspotlist: Hotspots in a region or nearby coordinates

In rebird: R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations

Description

Get the list of hotspots within a region, or within a radius of up to 50 kilometers, from a given set of coordinates.

Usage

ebirdhotspotlist(
  regionCode = NULL,
  lat = NULL,
  lng = NULL,
  dist = NULL,
  back = NULL,
  sleep = 0,
  key = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

regionCode	The country, subnational1 or subnational2 code. If 'regionCode' is provided then latitude and longitude are ignored.
lat	Decimal latitude. value between -90.00 and 90.00, up to two decimal places of precision. Defaults to latitude based on IP if neither 'regionCode' nor 'lat' and 'lng' are provided.
lng	Decimal longitude. value between -180.00 and 180.00, up to two decimal places of precision. Defaults to longitude based on IP if neither 'regionCode' nor 'lat' and 'lng' are provided.
dist	The search radius from the given set of coordinates, in kilometers (between 0 and 500, defaults to 25).
back	Only fetch hotspots which have been visited up to 'back' days ago (defaults to 'NULL').
sleep	Time (in seconds) before function sends API call (defaults to zero. Set to higher number if you are using this function in a loop with many API calls).
key	eBird API key. You can obtain one from https://ebird.org/api/keygen. We strongly recommend storing it in your .Renviron file as an environment variable called EBIRD_KEY.
...	Curl options passed on to GET

Value

A data.frame with ten columns containing:

"locId": unique identifier for the hotspot

"locName": hotspot name

"countryCode": country code

"subnational1Code": subnational1 code (state/province level)

"subnational2Code": subnational2 code (county/municipality level)

"lat": latitude of the hotspot

"lng": longitude of the hotspot

"latestObsDt": Date of latest observation

"numSpeciesAllTime": Total number of species recorded in the hotspot

Author(s)

Sebastian Pardo [e-mail], David Bradnum [e-mail]

References

http://ebird.org/

Examples

## Not run: 
ebirdhotspotlist("CA-NS-HL")
ebirdhotspotlist("VA")
ebirdhotspotlist(lat = 30, lng = -90, dist = 10)
library(httr)
ebirdhotspotlist("CA-NS-HL", config = verbose())

## End(Not run)

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