Birding Buddy MCP

An AI-powered birding companion that connects Claude to eBird and Xeno-canto APIs, enabling personalized birding with life list tracking, route-based hotspot discovery, and recording enrichment.

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// key findings

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: EBIRD_API_KEY, XC_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretEBIRD_API_KEY— "": "your-ebird-key-here",

🔐 secretXC_API_KEY— "": "your-xeno-canto-key-here"

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commit: 0772a0f4bb30ba38876d6cf36f3bd8936df0e2c7

code hash: 746e50e4f9612ebcaecc8ba4175100a894d49cf790dfbf3a3c953b5520bc3fcf

verified: 6/10/2026, 10:24:21 AM

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