---
id: "ebird_hotspot_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ebird_hotspot_id"
---

# eBird hotspot ID (`ebird_hotspot_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of an eBird hotspot, a birding location with a public page in eBird: the letter L followed by a number, so far of up to eight digits. It appears in hotspot page URLs (https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1231446) and in the eBird API.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^L[1-9]\d*$
```

## Examples

- `L1231446` — Sandwell Valley RSPB Reserve, England; Wikidata example, eBird
- `L11` — High Park, Toronto, Canada; Wikidata, eBird
- `L10019528` — The Doon School, Dehradun, India; Wikidata example, eBird
- `1231446` (invalid example) — Missing the L prefix

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P5200`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор точки наблюдений (hotspot) eBird: Код общедоступного места наблюдения птиц в eBird: буква L и номер.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5200>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ebird_hotspot_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/ebird_hotspot_id.yaml>