BirdWeather Report Generator

Generates and emails HTML reports of bird detections from a BirdWeather station using their API. The report includes:

• Species detection counts
• Time-of-day activity patterns
• Station images for each species
• Links to audio recordings of best detections

Setup

1. Clone this repository
2. Install requirements:

pip install requests jinja2

3. Create a config.py file with your settings:

EMAIL_TO = "[email protected]"
EMAIL_FROM = "[email protected]"
EMAIL_PASSWORD = "your_app_password"  # SMTP password (or Gmail app-specific password)
SMTP_SERVER = "smtp.example.com"  # email sending server
SMTP_PORT = 587
STATION_TOKEN = "your_station_token"  # BirdWeather station ID (eg 12345)

Usage

Basic usage with default 24-hour report:

python birdweather_report.py

Generate report for different time period:

python birdweather_report.py --hours 48  # Last 48 hours

Output

The script generates and emails an HTML report containing:

• Total species count and detection count
• Per-species statistics:
  • Total detections
  • Highest confidence level
  • Hour-by-hour activity heatmap
  • Station photo
  • Link to best detection audio

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• requests
• jinja2
• SMTP e-mail credentials
• BirdWeather station ID

License

MIT License