Retrieve Data from the List of the Birds of Peru

This function takes a list of birds species names, searches for their data in the avesperu pacakage dataset, and returns a data frame containing the relevant information for each species.

Usage

search_avesperu(splist, max_distance = 0.1)

Arguments

splist

A character vector containing the names of the species to search for.

max_distance

The maximum allowed distance for fuzzy matching of species names. Defaults to 0.1.

Value

A data frame containing the retrieved information for each species.

Details

The function allows fuzzy matching for species names with a maximum distance threshold to handle potential typos or variations in species names.

Examples

splist <- c("Falco sparverius", "Tinamus osgodi", "Crypturellus sooui",
            "Thraupisa palamarum", "Thamnophilus praecox")

search_avesperu(splist)
#>        name_submitted     accepted_name     english_name        spanish_name
#> 1    Falco sparverius  Falco sparverius American Kestrel Cernícalo Americano
#> 2      Tinamus osgodi   Tinamus osgoodi    Black Tinamou        Perdiz Negra
#> 3  Crypturellus sooui Crypturellus soui   Little Tinamou        Perdiz Chica
#> 4 Thraupisa palamarum Thraupis palmarum     Palm Tanager Tangara de Palmeras
#>           order     family status dist
#> 1 Falconiformes Falconidae   nill    0
#> 2  Tinamiformes  Tinamidae   nill    1
#> 3  Tinamiformes  Tinamidae   nill    1
#> 4 Passeriformes Thraupidae   nill    2