bbs_meta_species: Get taxonomic metadata for North American Breeding Bird...
In patrickbarks/bbs: North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

Get data frame with species names and associated taxonomic information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). This data comes from the BBS file SpeciesList.txt.

1	bbs_meta_species(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:

`seq`	phylogenetic sequence number
`aou`	integer species code from American Ornithological Union
`english_common_name`	common name in English
`french_common_name`	common name in French
`spanish_common_name`	common name in Spanish
`order`	taxonomic order
`family`	taxonomic family
`genus`	taxonomic genus
`species`	taxonomic species name

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
species <- bbs_meta_species()

# get from local working directory
species <- bbs_meta_species(bbs_dir = ".")

## End(Not run)