Birds Near Me

A project that pulls data from popular birding site eBird (API Docs: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/664302/S1ENwy59)

To do list

• Get region from user
• Image lookup for popular bird breeds in Australia
• Styling
• Auto refresh?

Tools

• Vite, React, Tanstack

Setup

• Add .env file to /src with eBird API key - sign up for ebird and go to https://ebird.org/api/keygen to request an api key VITE_EBIRD_API_KEY={{ your api key here }} VITE_REGION={{ region string here }}

Alternative Approach

• use long and lat

  `https://api.ebird.org/v2/data/obs/geo/recent?lat=${import.meta.env.VITE_LAT}&lng=${
    import.meta.env.VITE_LONG
  }&key=${import.meta.env.VITE_EBIRD_API_KEY}&detail=full&maxResults=20`