🦜 Ornithophile

A lightweight REST API serving detailed information on 11,290 bird species — including taxonomy, conservation status, sounds, and image links. Perfect for bird watchers, nature apps, educational platforms, and biodiversity research projects.

🚀 Live API

👉 Visit the live API: https://ornithophile.vercel.app

You can use the endpoints directly in your applications or for exploration in Postman, Curl, etc.

📦 Features

• 🐦 List all bird species
• 🔍 Search birds by name or other attributes
• 🧬 Filter by taxonomic category (e.g., family, genus)
• 🔤 Fetch birds by starting alphabet
• 🖼️ Automatically upgrade bird image resolutions (up to 1000px)

📚 API Endpoints

Get All Birds

GET /api/birds

Search Birds

GET /api/birds?common_name=dodo GET /api/birds?family=Raphinae

Supports query strings based on bird properties.

Get Bird by ID

GET /api/birds/:id

Filter by Taxonomic Category

GET /api/birds/category/:level/:value

• :level must be one of: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Example:

GET /api/birds/category/family/Corvidae

Filter by Alphabet

GET /api/birds/alpha/:letter

Returns birds whose names start with the specified letter. Example:

GET /api/birds/alpha/a

🖼️ Image Resolution Upgrade

If a bird's image URL contains a size of 250px or less, it's automatically upgraded to 1000px. Example:

text Before: .../250px-Bird.jpg After: .../1000px-Bird.jpg

Works on:

• male_image
• female_image
• other_images[]

📄 Example Bird Object

json { "id": "1e79e936-4a1c-4bc6-84da-8fe147b7c1ad", "common_name": "Abbott's babbler", "scientific_name": "Malacocincla abbotti", "male_image": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Malacocincla-abbotti-abbotts-babbler-khao-yai-national-park.jpg/1000px-Malacocincla-abbotti-abbotts-babbler-khao-yai-national-park.jpg", "female_image": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Abbott%27s_babbler_%28Malacocincla_abbotti%29.jpg/1000px-Abbott%27s_babbler_%28Malacocincla_abbotti%29.jpg", "conservation_status": "Least Concern", "domain": "Eukaryota", "kingdom": "Animalia", "phylum": "Chordata", "class": "Aves", "order": "Passeriformes", "family": "Pellorneidae", "genus": "Malacocincla", "species": "M. abbotti", "sound": "https://xeno-canto.org/983127/download", "description": "Abbott's babbler (Malacocincla abbotti) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is widely distributed along the Himalayas in South Asia and extending into the forests of Southeast Asia. They are short-tailed and stout birds which forage in pairs in dense undergrowth close to the ground and their presence is indicated by their distinctive calls.", "sources": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott's_babbler", "other_images": [ { "name": "Unnamed", "source": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg/1000px-Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg.png" }, { "name": "Unnamed", "source": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/MalacocinclaAbbottiFBI.jpg/1000px-MalacocinclaAbbottiFBI.jpg" }, { "name": "Unnamed", "source": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/TrichostomaAbbotti.jpg/1000px-TrichostomaAbbotti.jpg" } ] }

License

This project is licensed under the Academic Non-Commercial License. It is free to use for academic, research, and educational purposes only.

Please credit Maxi Aditya Kusuma Winarjo if you use this work.
Commercial use is not allowed without prior written permission.