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Pizzey and knight app

To: Guy Gibbon <>
Subject: Pizzey and knight app
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:28:59 +1100
I didn't realise I had to hold it for a while before dragging the pin. And it 
appears I can only move it once after it's been dropped. After that, if I want 
to move it again, I have to drop it and then drop it again.

Is this stuff documented anywhere?

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

> On 3 Dec 2013, at 6:17 pm, "Guy Gibbon" <> wrote:
> 
> Hello Peter
> 
> Sounds like you are having finger trouble. The drop pin works beautifully.
> Yes, it drops into the middle of the screen, and if you would like to change
> that you scroll and zoom, then tap and hold for a split second. If you get
> zero birds or 900 birds you have probably not selected a pin.
> 
> As mentioned in my last reply, the drop pin generates a list based on one
> degree square of distribution. The birding site lists are also based on
> distribution, but for a more specific area. Yes, it's not an actual site
> list, but those vary from zero to whatever, depending on the atlasing
> effort. As you say, the birding site descriptions are the place to check
> what species to specifically look for, and this requirement will vary from
> birder to birder. 
> 
> Regards
> Guy Gibbon
> Gibbbon Multimedia
> wwww.gibbonmm.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: 03 December 2013 07:28 AM
> To: John Leonard; 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pizzey and knight app
> 
> I just tried it myself, and also got 183. I suspect it thought you were in
> Central Australia. After I used the "drop pin" thing to set my location to
> Ulladulla, I got 363 species which look sort of right. 
> 
> It took me a while to work out how to control the pin. When you tap the menu
> item, it drops it right in the middle of the screen. You can then drag it
> around, but I can't reliably get it to respond. I found it better to tap
> again to remove the pin, then zoom into the right area so the middle of the
> screen is where I want it, then try again.
> 
> There's definitely something wrong with it. Playing with moving the pin
> around Tasmania, and offshore and back again, I got a list in the hundreds,
> then zero, then over 900.
> 
> I think it's more useful as a way of reducing the number of choices when
> creating lists, than as a way of knowing what might be around. I was hoping
> it would have proper checklists for the listed birding sites, but it only
> lists species in the site descriptions.
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On 3 Dec 2013, at 3:33 pm, "Peter Shute" <> wrote:
>> 
>> I think it generates the list for the the one degree "square" of latitude
> and longitude of your position, which works out to about 100km square at
> that latitude, so you should certainly get more than coastal species listed.
> I think you also have to nominate the location of that "square", so perhaps
> something went wrong with that too.
>> 
>> Peter Shute
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 
>>>  On Behalf Of John 
>>> Leonard
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2013 2:40 PM
>>> To: 
>>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Pizzey and knight app
>>> 
>>> As I and tahini in ulladulla over Xmas I decided to use this app to 
>>> generate a list to remind me of coastal species to keep a look out 
>>> for.
>>> 
>>> The app generated a list of 183 spp, but early in the alphabet it 
>>> listed
>>> 
>>> Bellbird, Crested
>>> Bowerbird, Western
>>> Buzzard, Black-breasted
>>> 
>>> I tried it again, and it returned a list of 0 species :-(
>>> 
>>> John Leonard
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