Search any of 17,000+ US towns and get its eBird county region code instantly. Every town is tied to the county eBird uses for checklists, hotspots, and alerts.
Covers all 50 states + DC. Try "Springfield" — there are a bunch.
An eBird region code identifies a geographic area in eBird's system, for example US-NC-119 for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. eBird regions go from country to state to county, and county is the most detailed level available in the US.
Type your town into the search box above. The finder matches it to its county and shows the eBird region code, which you can copy or open directly on eBird.org.
Yes. Plug the code into eBird API endpoints such as https://api.ebird.org/v2/data/obs/US-NC-119/recent to pull recent bird observations for that county. You need a free eBird API key, available at ebird.org/api/keygen.
Some towns sit on county lines. The finder uses each town's primary county, which is the county eBird associates with most checklists there.