EBird Get Taxonomy

Overview

Get bird taxonomy data from eBird (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Returns taxonomic information including scientific name, common name, species code, taxonomic order, family, and banding codes. Can retrieve taxonomy for a specific species by code, filter by taxon type, or set locale for common names in different languages. Without parameters, returns the complete eBird taxonomy (~17,000 taxa). Use species codes like 'amerob' (American Robin), 'baleag' (Bald Eagle), 'mallar3' (Mallard). No API key required.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

2352ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "locale": {
      "description": "Language code for common names (e.g., 'en' for English, 'es' for Spanish, 'fr' for French, 'de' for German, 'zh' for Chinese). Defaults to 'en'.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "species": {
      "description": "eBird species code to filter to a single species (e.g., 'amerob' for American Robin, 'baleag' for Bald Eagle, 'mallar3' for Mallard, 'pilwoo' for Pileated Woodpecker). Find codes via eBird website or search.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "taxonType": {
      "description": "Taxonomic category filter. Values: 'species' (full species only), 'issf' (identifiable sub-specific forms), 'spuh' (genus-level), 'slash' (species pairs), 'intergrade', 'domestic', 'hybrid', 'form'",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_eBird_get_taxonomy

Tool name

eBird_get_taxonomy

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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