(Hastily scribbled notes and API endpoints - not to be confused with helpful documentation)
Recent Sightings API https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/CLOISAPI/eBird-1.1-RecentNearbyObservations
Toronto-center-ish (richmond+peter): 43.6475, -79.393 http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/geo/recent?lng=-79.39&lat=43.65&fmt=json&back=14
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Hotspots in CA-ON-TO: http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/hotspot/region?rtype=subnational2&r=CA-ON-TO&back=7&fmt=json Peel CA-ON-PL: http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/hotspot/region?rtype=subnational2&r=CA-ON-PL&back=7&fmt=json York CA-ON-YO: http://ebird.org/ws1.1/ref/hotspot/region?rtype=subnational2&r=CA-ON-YO&back=7&fmt=json
To extract locIDs (see loc.sh): grep -o 'locID":"L[^"]*"' | sed 's/[^0-9L]//g' | sort | uniq
multi-loc fetch stem (append &r=…) http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/loc/recent?back=7detail=simple&fmt=json&r=
GATHER THE OMNIBUS: cat aug-23-locations GTA-hotspot-locIDs.txt | sort | uniq | ./gather-sightings.py | xargs curl | sed 's/][/,/g' > aug-23-omnibus