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ebird-mcp-server
A MCP server that integrates the eBird API to connect with an AI agent.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- recent bird observations by location · recent observations by species · notable (rare) observations · checklists (recent, by date, summary statistics, details, top contributors) · birding hotspots (by location or within a radius) · eBird taxonomy, including subspecies
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global (per catalogue regions; all DOCS examples are in Taiwan)
- Formats llm-inferred
- MCP stdio
- Access docs-verified
- eBird API key required (request via an eBird account); MIT licence
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Recent-sighting check for a survey site before ecological baseline work · Screening for notable (rare) species records near a development site for an ecology chapter · Locating eBird hotspots near a project site to plan field survey visits · Looking up official eBird taxonomy and subspecies names for consistent naming in reports
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · environmental consultants · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Requires Claude Desktop app and a local Python install · Manual setup: absolute paths to Python and server.py plus API key in claude_desktop_config.json · No rate limits or API quotas documented · DOCS examples are Taiwan-focused; coverage elsewhere is not demonstrated · Repo mismatch: catalogue URL is birdingkit/ebird-mcp-server but DOCS clone siansiansu/ebird-mcp-server; verify source before install
- Licence
- MIT
- Authentication
- API key via env: EBIRD_API_KEY (auto-extracted from README)
- GitHub stars
- 6
- Last commit
- 29/06/2025
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, install, auth. Check upstream documentation.
Provenance & evidence
Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README; quality score heuristic (stars, recency, tool count, licence).
Metadata observed 15/10/2026 · research sweep: github-search