A simplified version of the taxonomy used by eBird. Includes proper species
as well as various other categories such as spuh (e.g. duck sp.) and
slash (e.g. American Black Duck/Mallard). This taxonomy is based on the
Clements Checklist, which is updated annually, typically in the late summer.
Non-ASCII characters (e.g. those with accents) have been converted to ASCII
equivalents in this data frame.
ebird_taxonomyA data frame with eight variables and 16,248 rows:
species_code: a unique alphanumeric code identifying each species.
taxon_concept_id: a unique alphanumeric code identifying each species
in the Avibase taxonomy.
scientific_name: scientific name.
common_name: common name, defaults to English, but different languages
can be selected using the locale parameter.
order: the scientific name of the order that the species belongs to.
family: the scientific name of the family that the species belongs to.
family_common: the common name of the family that the species belongs
to.
category: whether the entry is for a species or another
field-identifiable taxon, such as spuh, slash, hybrid, etc.
taxonomic_order: integer value used to sort rows in taxonomic order.
report_as: for taxa that can be resolved to true species (i.e. species,
subspecies, and recognizable forms), this field links to the corresponding
species code. For taxa that can't be resolved, this field is NA.
extinct: logical variable indicating whether the species is listed as
extinct in the eBird taxonomy.
For further details, see https://support.ebird.org/support/solutions/articles/48000837816-the-ebird-taxonomy
Other data:
bcr_codes,
ebird_states,
valid_protocols