goodearth_wildlife_catalog

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Which animals are actually recorded around this ground. Birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles observed near here, ranked by how often each has been seen — so the answer for a Vermont lakeshore is not the answer for a Georgia orchard, and neither is a roster someone typed. Species are a landscape fact. A nine-hectare field contains almost no observations of anything, so the search widens to the surrounding country and the response reports how wide it looked; treating that footprint as the farm would be the dishonest version. The ranking measures observers as much as animals — a roadside is better recorded than a back field — so the counts travel with the answer. Pass a scientific name as `species` and this answers with that animal's life-cycle phenophases instead — nest building, nestlings, fledged young, calls or song, emergence above ground. Those come from USA-NPN, which publishes them; they are not written into this service. Roughly half the species recorded around a farm have them, and one that does not returns an empty list rather than a guess, because "not tracked" and "does nothing" are different claims. Set `with_events` to get those phenophases for EVERY species in the list at once, as `habit_events`. Ask for it before writing a roster: an agent left to name events from memory writes "rut onset" and "southbound flights", words this service has never used, where NPN says "Nest building" and "Fledged young". It costs one upstream call per species, which is why it is off by default. **The event name is not load-bearing.** A wildlife row is dated by its DRIVER — heat, daylight, an interval, a calendar date — and the label is the grower's own words. `habit_events` is a courtesy to a caller looking for the right word, never a list of the only acceptable ones: "Big Night crossing" is a real thing a salamander does and no catalogue holds it. Good Earth times an event you set. It does not publish natural history.