bbs_meta_routes: Get route metadata for North American Breeding Bird Survey
In patrickbarks/bbs: North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

Get a data frame with the names and codes of routes surveyed in the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), and associated metadata. This data comes from the BBS file routes.csv. See BBS file RouteInf.txt for further documentation.

1	bbs_meta_routes(bbs_dir = bbs_ftp())

bbs_dir

Directory from which to get data. Defaults to the USGS FTP directory for the most recent BBS release. May alternatively be a path to a local directory, or ftp address for an older BBS release.

A data.frame with the following columns:

`country_num`	integer code for country: 124 (Canada), 484 (Mexico), 840 (United States)
`state_num`	integer code for state/province/territory
`route`	integer code for route
`route_name`	name of route
`active`	logical indicator for whether route is active (note that a route may be active but not sampled in a given year)
`latitude`	latitude of route starting point in decimal degrees
`longitude`	longitude of route starting point in decimal degrees
`stratum`	integer code for physiographic stratum
`bcr`	integer code for Bird Conservation Region
`route_type_id`	integer indicator for route substrate: 1 (roadside), 2 (water), 3 (off-road)
`route_type_detail_id`	integer indicates for route length and selection criteria

Bob O'Hara

Patrick Barks <patrick.barks@gmail.com>

Pardieck, K.L., D.J. Ziolkowski Jr., M. Lutmerding and M.-A.R. Hudson. 2018. North American Breeding Bird Survey Dataset 1966-2017, version 2017.0. U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. https://doi.org/10.5066/F76972V8

## Not run: 

# get from USGS ftp server
routes <- bbs_meta_routes()

# get from local working directory
routes <- bbs_meta_routes(bbs_dir = ".")

## End(Not run)