name_conversions

Convert between bird species names: scientific names, English common names, and IBP or BBL 4-letter alpha codes

Or, use the tables of name equivalence from /resources directly.

Example usage:

import name_conversions
scientific = name_conversions.alpha_to_sci('NOCA') #also works with 'noca'
alpha = name_conversions.sci_to_alpha('Cardinalis cardinalis') #also works with "cardinalis-cardinalis"
common = name_conversions.alpha_to_common('NOCA')
#etc

Function list:

 'alpha_to_common',
 'alpha_to_sci',
 'bn_common_to_sci',
 'common_to_alpha',
 'common_to_sci',
 'sci_to_alpha',
 'sci_to_bn_common',
 'sci_to_xc_common',
 'xc_common_to_sci'
 'get_species_list',
 'ebird_to_sci',
 'ebird_to_common',
 'sci_to_ebird',
 'common_to_ebird',
 'switch_ebird_taxonomy_year'

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/kitzeslab/name_conversions.git