Vocabulary for bird spotters

[Hert]

Does anyone know if there is a controlled vocabulary for bird watchers/spotters that one can import to Photo Supreme?
Tia

[fbungarz]

I am not sure if you'd be able to access the scientific names directly from AviBase (https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=WORLD) or eBird (https://ebird.org/explore), but it seems that especialle eBird is basically following Clements et al. (2022), which can be downloaded in various formats from: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementsc ... /download/

With these files it should be possible to parse out a hierarchical list like this:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Struthioniformes
Family: Struthionidae
Scientific name: Struthio camelus
Common Name: Common Ostrich

You will recognized that the taxonomic ranks (Kingdom - Phylum - Class ... etc.) match the DarwinCore XMP. It would be very neat to parse out a list that maps the labels to these XMP fields.
For Birds, the first three taxonomic ranks are the same. All birds scientifically belong to the class Aves in the phylum Chordata (= vertebrates), in the kingdom Animalia (= animals)...

But users should be aware that the global list of the species gets pretty huge, 16,860 names (not including subspecies).

[Hert]

Thank you for the great info.