Birdr is a tool for discovering and identifying birds in your neighborhood. It was built by Reuben Son as a student at The Flatiron School using Ruby/Rails, Javscript, jQuery, AJAX, CSS3, and HTML5.
Bird observation data is obtained through API calls to the
eBird
database, which was created in 2002 by the National Audubon Society
and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
to log birding checklists submitted provided by birders across the globe.
Information and images specific to each bird species are supplied through AJAX requests
to the Wikipedia API. The responsive design was coded in JavaScript/jQuery and
CSS from scratch without the use of additional libraries.