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#Week 2: ##Progress Report Installed, read about,and walked through tutorials for Angular.JS. Worked with Roy to build a sample front end interface. We managed to create a HTML table and populate it dynamically with Angular. We also worked on using the JSON returned by the API call instead of some dummy data.

#Week 1 (Bird Database List): ##eBird http://ebird.org/

eBird’s goal is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional bird watchers. It is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence. It has a ton of different data formats (GPS locations and spatial boundaries, filter-by regions, sighting counts, real-time graphs and visualizations, etc.) . They have a prepackaged and customizable file downloads and APIs available on request, and I sent an email for the same. If it doesn’t go through, all their data is outputted to a single HTML table, so it shouldn’t be too hard to scrape manually.

##Seabird Tracking Database http://www.seabirdtracking.org

The Seabird Tracking Database - Tracking Ocean Wanderers - is the largest collection of seabird tracking data in existence. It serves as a central store for seabird tracking data from around the world and aims to help further seabird conservation work and support the tracking community. Only certain database records are publicly available, but I sent a request for full access, and should hear back in a couple of days.

##Effechecka http://www.effechecka.org/

The purpose of Effechecka is to create, save, export and follow checklists given specific spatial, taxonomic and trait constraints using data sources including, but not limited to, GBIF, iDigBioand EOL TraitBank. Exports to JSON, CSV, or using EOL API key. Returns animals in that region, along with occurrence count.

Data Format Table:

|taxon name| taxon path| record count|

###World Bird Names http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ioc-lists/master-list-2/

The IOC World Bird List is an open access resource of the international community of ornithologists. Our goal is to facilitate worldwide communication in ornithology and conservation based on an up-to-date classification of world birds and a set of English names that follows explicit guidelines for spelling and construction (Gill & Wright 2006). Doesn’t have GPS or spatial data.

Data Format Table:

|Rank| Extinct? (†)| English name| Scientific Name| Breeding Range|

###Avibase http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/

Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 17 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more. Doesn’t have an API as far as I can tell, but outputs to a HTML table.