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eBird taxon ID
identifier for a species or subspecies, in the eBird database

Associated item	eBird (Q5322614), Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Q2997535), National Audubon Society (Q1646000)
Applicable "stated in" value	eBird (Q5322614)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	According to this template: birds According to statements in the property: taxon (Q16521) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	[a-z-]{2,6}\d{0,2}|[xy]00\d{3}
Usage notes	Note: For US species, often, but not always the same as P4526
Example	Gray Catbird (Q831597) → grycat Western Osprey (Q25332) → osprey Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Q27604874) → osprey1 Fork-tailed Storm Petrel (Q1268697) → ftspet Vermivora chrysoptera x cyanoptera (Q114415613) → x00669
Source	http://ebird.org
Formatter URL	https://ebird.org/species/$1
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P3444 (Q29168742)
See also	EURING number (P3459), ABA bird ID (P4526), Guide to North American Birds ID (P4715), eBird hotspot ID (P5200), All About Birds ID (P10191), Macaulay Library taxon ID (P10794)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other external identifier Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Mix'n'match (Report) Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 13,363 Main statement 13,356 >99.9% of uses Qualifier 5 <0.1% of uses Reference 2 <0.1% of uses
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Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)

Single value: this property generally contains a single value. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Single value, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Format “[a-z-]{2,6}\d{0,2}|[xy]00\d{3}”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Item “taxon name (P225)”: Items with this property should also have “taxon name (P225)”. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Item P225, hourly updated report, search, SPARQL

Type “taxon (Q16521)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “taxon (Q16521)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Type Q16521, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P3444#Scope, SPARQL

This property is being used by: es:Plantilla:Bases de datos taxonómicas, es:Plantilla:Taxonbar, es:Plantilla:Birds of the World ca:Plantilla:Bases de dades taxonòmiques Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Notes from Cornell

The eBird team at Cornell University tell me:

Because eBird is a global database and follows the Clements Taxonomy, our codes sometimes diverge from ABA bird ID (P4526) (which is restricted to the ABA region). As we manage over 10,000 species, there are inevitable conflicts in generating codes strictly following what ABA uses, we resolve those conflicts various ways but the result is the codes don't always align.

Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, eBird, Macaulay Library and All About Birds all utilize the eBird species codes.

Birds of North America or Neotropical Birds do not cover vagrants like eurkes, as the two projects focus on breeding species within these geographic areas.

In the case of e.g. Osprey, the species level code is actually osprey; osprey1 is the code for the carolinensis subspecies, osprey2 is the ridgwayi subspecies. We sometimes use numbers at the end for subspecies and splits. So if ridgwayi becomes a full species, the code remains unchanged and will be osprey2. Codes don't change, regardless of common and scientific name changes or changes in taxonomic level.

The y00 codes (e.g. American Coot (Q470016) = "y00475") are where there were originally two different species and now the species have been "lumped".

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

A list of items with different values for P3444 and P4526 (430 of them, at the time of writing) is returned by this query:

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?ebird ?ababird WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P3444 ?ebird.
  ?item wdt:P4526 ?ababird .
  BIND(IF(?ebird != ?ababird, 'different', 'same') AS ?match) .
  FILTER(?match!='same').
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en".
  }
}

Try it!

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:33, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Explore Species

Updated this for the new Explore Species feature (example). Makes this a very useful resource for bird species rather than only a link to a map. Innotata (talk) 18:11, 17 October 2018 (UTC)