--- title: "Connect Google Calendar to eBird - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Attendee Response Changed\" fires in Google Calendar, your agent runs \"Find nearby hotspots\" in eBird." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-ebird" --- # Connect Google Calendar to eBird When **Attendee Response Changed** fires in [Google Calendar](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-calendar), your agent runs **Find nearby hotspots** in [eBird](https://apiant.ai/connections/ebird). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Google Calendar **6** triggers Google Calendar **45** actions eBird **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Google Calendar and eBird to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Google Calendar holds your field trips, surveys and outings; eBird knows what birds have recently been reported where. Connecting them means a calendar event can carry the hotspots and sightings near its location, pulled when the event is created, changed or about to start. The agent reads the event details, queries eBird and writes the result back onto the event. Example flows ## What Google Calendar can start in eBird - When **Attendee Response Changed** in Google Calendar then **Find nearby hotspots** in eBird - When **Calendar Event Sync** in Google Calendar then **Find recent observations in a region** in eBird Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Google Calendar and eBird ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 66 actions - Trigger **Attendee Response Changed** Polling trigger that fires when any attendee's RSVP changes to accepted, declined, or tentative. Returns attendee info and current status. - Trigger **Calendar Event Sync** Polling trigger that returns full event data including details, attendees, and metadata. For real-time notifications with basic info, use Calendar Event Changes (webhook). - Trigger **Event Canceled or Deleted** Triggers when a Google Calendar event is cancelled or deleted. Returns minimal data: event_id, summary (if available), and cancellation timestamp. - Trigger **Event Created** Polling trigger that fires when a new calendar event is created. Returns event ID, summary, start/end times, and organizer info. - Trigger **Event Starting Soon** Triggers when a calendar event is within a configured number of minutes from starting. Returns event details, time remaining, attendees, and join links when available. - Trigger **Event Updated** Triggers when an existing Google Calendar event is modified. Returns the event ID, change type, and the specific fields that changed with their previous and new values. - Action **Acl Delete** Deletes an access control rule from a Google Calendar. Use when you need to remove sharing permissions for a user, group, or domain. - Action **Acl Get** Retrieves a specific access control rule for a calendar. Use when you need to check permissions for a specific user, group, or domain. - Action **Acl Insert** Creates an access control rule for a calendar. Use when you need to grant sharing permissions to a user, group, or domain. - Action **Acl List** Retrieves the list of access control rules (ACLs) for a specified calendar, providing the necessary 'rule_id' values required for updating specific ACL rules. - Action **Acl Patch** Updates an existing access control rule for a calendar using patch semantics (partial update). This allows modifying specific fields without affecting other properties. IMPORTANT: The ACL rule must already exist on the calendar. This action cannot create new rules. If you receive a 404 Not Found error, the rule does not exist - use ACL insert to create it first, or use ACL list to verify available rules. Each patch request consumes three quota units. For domain-type ACL rules, if PATCH fails with 500 error, this action will automatically fallback to UPDATE method. - Action **Acl Update** Updates an access control rule for the specified calendar. - Action **Acl Watch** Tool to watch for changes to ACL resources. Use when you need to set up real-time notifications for access control list modifications on a calendar. - Action **Batch Events** Execute up to 1000 event mutations (create/patch/delete) in one Google Calendar HTTP batch request with per-item status/results. Use this to materially reduce round-trips for bulk operations like migrations, cleanup, or large-scale updates. - Action **Calendar List Delete** Tool to remove a calendar from the user's calendar list. Use when you need to unsubscribe from or hide a calendar from the user's list. - Action **Calendar List Get** Retrieves metadata for a SINGLE specific calendar from the user's calendar list by its calendar ID. This action requires a calendarId parameter and returns details about that one calendar only. NOTE: This does NOT list all calendars. To list all calendars in the user's calendar list, use GOOGLECALENDAR_CALENDAR_LIST_LIST instead. - Action **Calendar List Insert** Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list. - Action **Calendar List Patch** Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar list using patch semantics. This method allows partial updates, modifying only the specified fields. - Action **Calendar List Update** Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list. - Action **Calendar List Watch** Watch for changes to CalendarList resources using push notifications. Use this to receive real-time updates when calendar list entries are modified. - Action **Calendars Delete** Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars. - Action **Calendars Update** Updates metadata for a calendar. - Action **Channels Stop** Tool to stop watching resources through a notification channel. Use when you need to discontinue push notifications for a specific channel subscription. - Action **Create Calendar** Creates a new secondary Google Calendar with the specified title and optional settings. Use this action when you need to create a new calendar for organizing events separately from the primary calendar. The authenticated user becomes the owner of the newly created calendar. Optional parameters include description, location, and timezone. - Action **Create Event** Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true. - Action **Delete Event** Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found. - Action **Duplicate Calendar** Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary). - Action **Events Get** Retrieves a SINGLE event by its unique event_id (REQUIRED). This action does NOT list or search events - it fetches ONE specific event when you already know its ID. If you want to list events within a time range, search for events, or filter by criteria like time_min/time_max, use GOOGLECALENDAR_EVENTS_LIST instead. - Action **Events Import** Tool to import an event as a private copy to a calendar. Use when you need to add an existing event to a calendar using its iCalUID. Only events with eventType='default' can be imported. - Action **Events Instances** Returns instances of the specified recurring event. - Action **Events List** Returns events on the specified calendar. - Action **Events List All Calendars** Return a unified event list across all calendars in the user's calendar list for a given time range. Use when you need a single view of all events across multiple calendars. An inverted or incorrect time range silently returns empty results rather than an error. An empty `items` list means no events matched the filters—adjust `time_min`, `time_max`, or `q` before concluding no events exist. - Action **Events Move** Moves an event to another calendar, i.e., changes an event's organizer. - Action **Events Watch** Watch for changes to events resources. - Action **Find Event** Finds events in a specified google calendar using text query, time ranges (event start/end, last modification), and event types; ensure `timemin` is not chronologically after `timemax` if both are provided. - Action **Find Free Slots** Finds free/busy time slots in google calendars for specified calendars within a defined time range (defaults to the current day utc if `time min`/`time max` are omitted), enhancing busy intervals with event details; `time min` must precede `time max` if both are provided. - Action **Free Busy Query** Returns free/busy information for a set of calendars. - Action **Get Calendar** Retrieves a specific google calendar, identified by `calendar id`, to which the authenticated user has access. - Action **Get Current Date Time** Gets the current date and time, allowing for a specific timezone offset. - Action **List Acl Rules** Retrieves the list of access control rules (acls) for a specified calendar, providing the necessary 'rule id' values required for updating specific acl rules. - Action **List Calendars** Retrieves calendars from the user's google calendar list, with options for pagination and filtering. - Action **Patch Calendar** Partially updates (patches) an existing google calendar, modifying only the fields provided; `summary` is mandatory and cannot be an empty string, and an empty string for `description` or `location` clears them. - Action **Patch Event** Updates specified fields of an existing event in a google calendar using patch semantics (array fields like `attendees` are fully replaced if provided); ensure the `calendar id` and `event id` are valid and the user has write access to the calendar. - Action **Quick Add** Parses natural language text to quickly create a basic google calendar event with its title, date, and time, suitable for simple scheduling; does not support direct attendee addition or recurring events, and `calendar id` must be valid if not 'primary'. - Action **Remove Attendee** Removes an attendee from a specified event in a google calendar; the calendar and event must exist. - Action **Settings Get** Tool to return a single user setting for the authenticated user. Use when you need to retrieve a specific calendar setting value. - Action **Settings List** Returns all user settings for the authenticated user. - Action **Settings Watch** Watch for changes to settings resources. - Action **Sync Events** Synchronizes google calendar events, performing a full sync if no `sync token` is provided or if a 410 gone error (due to an expired token) necessitates it, otherwise performs an incremental sync for events changed since the `sync token` was issued. - Action **Update Acl Rule** Updates an access control rule for the specified calendar. - Action **Update Event** Updates an existing event by `event id` in a google calendar; this is a full put replacement, so provide all desired fields as unspecified ones may be cleared or reset. - Action **Find adjacent regions** regions bordering the given region (subnational1 level only). - Action **Find historic observations on a date** observations reported for a region on a specific calendar date. - Action **Find hotspots in a region** list of eBird hotspots within a region. - Action **Find nearby hotspots** eBird hotspots near a lat/lng point within a radius. - Action **Find nearby notable observations** recent rare-species sightings near a lat/lng point. - Action **Find nearby observations** recent observations within a radius (lat/lng, dist km) of a point. - Action **Find nearby observations of a species** recent sightings of one species near a lat/lng point. - Action **Find recent notable observations in a region** recent sightings of locally/nationally rare species in a region. - Action **Find recent observations in a region** recent bird observations (default last 14 days) for a region code (country/state/county). - Action **Find recent observations of a species in a region** recent sightings of one species within a region. - Action **Find species list for a region** full list of species ever reported in a region. - Action **Get checklist** full detail of one submitted checklist by its submission id. - Action **Get eBird taxonomy** the full eBird taxonomy (species codes, scientific/common names, categories). - Action **Get hotspot info** details (name, lat/lng, latest observation date, species count) for one hotspot. - Action **Get nearest observations of a species** nearest locations (up to 50km) where a given species was recently seen, relative to a lat/lng. - Action **Get regional statistics for a date** number of checklists/contributors/species for a region on a date. - Action **Get region info** display name and bounding box for a region code. - Action **Get top 100 contributors** top birders/checklist submitters for a region on a date. - Action **List recent checklists** feed of recently submitted checklists for a region. - Action **List sub-regions** child region codes (e.g. states in a country, counties in a state) for a parent region. - Action **List taxonomic groups** species grouped by taxonomic family/group for a given grouping scheme. ## Each app on its own - [ **Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-calendar) - [ **eBird** Retrieve recent or notable birding observations within a region](https://apiant.ai/connections/ebird) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Google Calendar - [ **Google Calendar to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-hubspot) - [ **Google Calendar to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-salesforce) - [ **Google Calendar to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-slack) - [ **Google Calendar to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-google-sheets) - [ **Google Calendar to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-stripe) - [ **Google Calendar to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shopify) ## More into eBird - [ **HubSpot to eBird** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-ebird) - [ **Salesforce to eBird** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-ebird) - [ **Slack to eBird** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-ebird) - [ **Google Sheets to eBird** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-ebird) - [ **Gmail to eBird** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-ebird) - [ **Google Drive to eBird** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-ebird) Questions ## Google Calendar and eBird, answered ### ### Can eBird start one of these? No, eBird is read-only here, so every scenario begins with a Google Calendar trigger such as an event being created, updated, starting soon or an attendee RSVP changing. The eBird lookups then run against the region or coordinates taken from that event. ### ### How does the agent know which region or location to look up in eBird? It uses what is on the Google Calendar event, such as the location field or a region code in the title, and the eBird lookups accept either a region code or a lat/lng point. The agent tests every scenario, including events that have no location set. ### ### What can start an automation from Google Calendar? Any of Google Calendar's 6 triggers in the catalog, including Attendee Response Changed, Calendar Event Sync, Event Created and Event Starting Soon. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in eBird when something happens in Google Calendar? Any of eBird's 21 actions, including Find nearby hotspots, Find recent observations in a region, Find species list for a region and Get hotspot info. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from eBird to Google Calendar? eBird has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Google Calendar. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads eBird's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Google Calendar or eBird? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Google Calendar and eBird without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.