iByrd

ibyrd is a Python package that provides tools for Birders and Researchers to:

• Explore and visualize information for Birders
• Easily interact with eBird APIs.

Project Maturity and readiness

iByrd is under active development; many key workflows and best practices are still being worked out. More seamless interaction with eBird products is in development, as well as general improvement the overall user experience.

A current major focus is visualization of user life-lists across various levels of taxonomy and relevant categories.

Features

• Retrieval of hotspots (eBird) via CLI and/or python
• Extracting the latest version of the eBird Taxonomy (species list for data entry and listing purposes across the world)

Requirements

ASDF for managing multiple runtime verisions.

Installation

You can install ibyrd via pip from PyPI:

$ pip install ibyrd

Usage

• IN PROGRESS

Please see the Command-line Reference for details.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. To learn more, see the Contributor Guide.

License

Distributed under the terms of the MIT license, ibyrd is free and open source software.

Issues

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.

Credits

• Cornell University
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• This project was originally based on @cjolowicz's Hypermodern Python Cookiecutter template.
• Credit to Tim Rodriguez for indirect influence of S&BP.