
Pondlog Mushroom Observer
Connects Claude to the Mushroom Observer API, a community mycology platform with species identification, observation data, and regional biodiversity records. Exposes five tools for querying fungal observations by location or species, browsing taxonomic hierarchies, and discovering active foraging regions. Useful when you're building nature identification workflows, analyzing fungal distribution patterns, or need structured mycology data alongside other biodiversity sources like iNaturalist or eBird. Part of the broader pondlog ecosystem that stitches together eight nature data APIs into a unified place-aware layer. No API key required, runs on stdio, and degrades gracefully when combined with other pondlog MCP servers.
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- STDIO
- last updated
- Oct 9, 2026
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Place-aware nature data for developers. What's happening in nature at these coordinates right now?
Pondlog stitches together free public APIs (iNaturalist, eBird, USA-NPN,
USGS, Mushroom Observer) plus local astronomy computation
(astronomy-engine) and NOAA tides/cloud cover into one data layer
with two interfaces:
- A CLI for humans (
pondlog inat nearby --lat 48.118 --lng -123.43) - An MCP server per source for AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor)
What's in the box
8 data sources. 7 MCP servers. 1 unified CLI. A ~1000-crop garden planner with USDA hardiness zones and companion-planting graph.
Details
- Repository
- github.com/andrewschristison/pondlog
- Package
@pondlog/mcp-mushroomobserver- Transport
- STDIO
- Registry
- MCP registry, active