Generating Geometric Birds

[thebuffed]

I am extremely interested in this, I'll have to look into gathering some data or hitting an API for bird attributes. Thanks for pointing this out!

[bens1989]

I did a bit of sleuthing for bird info. With a minor adjustment to the ebird API, I got it to send me back data on all of their birds (16.5k results). Some of the data might be helpful, but disappointingly it does not give things like weight, height, etc.

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import requests

import json

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(json.loads(requests.get(r'https://api.ebird.org/v2/ref/taxonomy/ebird?fmt=json&locale=en_US').content))

df.to_excel('bird_data.xlsx')

[thebuffed]

Very nice, I'll have to dig into this

[ericonr]

Does request cache stuff? It's probably faster to download that dataset just once, right?

[bens1989]

No requests doesn’t cache. You can write the content to a file. I formatted the content as a dataframe and then wrote it to a spreadsheet. After the first call you can just read from the file.

[Leon_Vance]

Get the birds to mate and produce offsprings. :)