Title: | Access and Work with the 'AviList' Global Avian Checklist |
Version: | 0.0.1 |
Description: | Provides easy access to the 'AviList' Global Avian Checklist, the first unified global bird taxonomy that harmonizes previous differences between International Ornithological Committee ('IOC'), 'Clements', and 'BirdLife' checklists. This package contains the complete 'AviList' dataset as R data objects ready for ornithological research and analysis. For more details see 'AviList' Core Team (2025) <doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025>. |
URL: | https://github.com/dalyanalytics/avilistr, https://dalyanalytics.github.io/avilistr/ |
BugReports: | https://github.com/dalyanalytics/avilistr/issues |
License: | CC0 |
Encoding: | UTF-8 |
RoxygenNote: | 7.3.2 |
Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
LazyData: | true |
LazyDataCompression: | xz |
Suggests: | dplyr, ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, tidyverse, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
VignetteBuilder: | knitr |
NeedsCompilation: | no |
Packaged: | 2025-06-16 12:19:39 UTC; jasminedaly |
Author: | Jasmine Daly |
Maintainer: | Jasmine Daly <jasmine.dumas@gmail.com> |
Repository: | CRAN |
Date/Publication: | 2025-06-17 09:30:02 UTC |
AviList Global Avian Checklist v2025 (Full Version)
Description
The complete AviList dataset containing all bird species, subspecies, and taxonomic information as of June 2025. This is the extended version with all available fields including nomenclatural details, bibliographic information, and external database links.
Usage
avilist_2025
Format
A data frame with 33684 rows and 26 columns. See avilist_metadata for detailed field descriptions.
Source
AviList Core Team. 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025
Examples
# Load the full dataset
data(avilist_2025)
# View summary
str(avilist_2025)
AviList Global Avian Checklist v2025 (Short Version)
Description
The essential fields from the AviList dataset containing core taxonomic information for all bird species and subspecies as of June 2025. This is the official short version provided by the AviList team, optimized for faster loading and basic taxonomic operations.
Usage
avilist_2025_short
Format
A data frame with 33684 rows and 14 columns. See avilist_metadata for detailed field descriptions.
Source
AviList Core Team. 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025
Examples
# Load the short dataset (faster loading)
data(avilist_2025_short)
# View summary
str(avilist_2025_short)
AviList Field Metadata
Description
Metadata describing all fields in the AviList datasets, including field descriptions, data types, sources, and availability in different dataset versions.
Usage
avilist_metadata
Format
A tibble with metadata for all AviList fields:
- field_name
Name of the field in the dataset
- description
Human-readable description of the field content
- data_type
Data type (character, numeric, etc.)
- source
Original source of the data (AviList, Clements, etc.)
- in_full_version
Logical, whether field is in the full dataset
- in_short_version
Logical, whether field is in the short dataset
Source
Generated from AviList field analysis
Examples
# View all field descriptions
data(avilist_metadata)
# Fields in short version only
avilist_metadata[avilist_metadata$in_short_version, ]
# Fields from specific sources
avilist_metadata[avilist_metadata$source == "Clements", ]