Hi Roger,
Thanks for putting that up. Hopefully it should be an improvement when doing
lists in the field.
Sonja
> On 8 Jun 2015, at 10:59 am, Roger Giller <> wrote:
>
> Peter et al,
>
> eBird have brought the Birdlog App "in-house" and modified it to iron out
> these problems. It will look and feel more like the on-line data entry, and
> is already being beta tested by reviewers.
>
> Roger.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Peter Shute
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 8:28 PM
> To: Sonja Ross
> Cc: Paul Coddington ;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Ebird
>
> I've just sent them all my complaints. Do they act on suggestions they
> receive?
>
> Peter Shute
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 7 Jun 2015, at 7:19 pm, Sonja Ross <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> It is annoying! Have you tried to contact them about it?
>>
>> Sonja
>>> On 7 Jun 2015, at 6:00 pm, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only way I've found to select a location not near me in Birdlog is to
>>> select the Search Hotspots By City option, then enter the postcode of that
>>> area. Then it lists all the hotspots in that area, which you can search by
>>> entering a few letters. I don't know what you can do if you need to enter
>>> data where there's no existing hotspot. Or if you don't know the postcode.
>>>
>>> Seems like a strange shortcoming of the app.
>>>
>>> Peter Shute
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 6:09 pm, Paul Coddington
>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I usually just use the standard search function on the computer to jump to
>>>> the species I want in the web interface, using the keyboard shortcuts so
>>>> it’s faster (i.e. command F to search on my Mac), type in a few letters of
>>>> the name (e.g “whist”), and then command G if it doesn’t go to the species
>>>> I want (Whistling Kite instead of Golden Whistler) and I need to jump to
>>>> the next one that matches what I typed in. It’s a bit slow but not too bad.
>>>>
>>>> Using the Birdlog app is really quick for entering data since you just
>>>> type in a few letters and it autocompletes and then you just pick the
>>>> species from the matches it presents. But I can’t figure out how to select
>>>> locations that aren’t near you when you’re using the app, so you’d need to
>>>> pick a bogus location (e.g. a personal location for your house) and then
>>>> change the location to the actual place through the web interface once the
>>>> list is uploaded from BirdLog.
>>>>
>>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 4:57 pm, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't mind entering lists for new trips as I do them, but I wish there
>>>>> was a faster way to enter the backlog. Does anyone have any tips for
>>>>> doing it quicker?
>>>>>
>>>>> The main trouble is that my notes list species as I encountered them,
>>>>> which means trawling up and down the web page to find them to mark them
>>>>> off. It would help if I knew the species list order off by heart, but
>>>>> I've only got a rough idea where any species is in the list, so I have to
>>>>> search for a lot of them. I've tried going through my notes doing all the
>>>>> pigeons, then the parrots, etc, but that means I've got to go through
>>>>> them multiple times, so it wastes as much time as it saves.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Shute
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 2:53 pm, Paul Coddington
>>>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did the same as Mona, and agree that it’s rather mindless and
>>>>>> laborious but very satisfying, and a good way to trigger nostalgic
>>>>>> memories by reviewing all those old trips. I started with Australian
>>>>>> trips where I saw lifers, and it only took me a couple of months or
>>>>>> working on it now and then to get the Australian life list sorted, then
>>>>>> I worked on trips that built my state list, then overseas trips, then
>>>>>> everything else. Overall it took about a year but now it’s all done and
>>>>>> it’s easy to enter new lists.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> eBird is a great resource, and the the more people use it, and the more
>>>>>> information is added to it, the more useful it becomes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:31:37 +1000
>>>>>>> From: Mona Loofs Samorzewski <>
>>>>>>> To: Adam Bruins <>
>>>>>>> Cc: "" <>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Ebird
>>>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>>> <>
>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Adam
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> eBird does specifically cater to this very issue, check out the ?How to
>>>>>>> Upload Your Lifelist? help topic at
>>>>>>> http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/973912
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you have the time and the inclination, all those lists in your
>>>>>>> 20-odd notebooks would add fabulous data to eBird. I?ve spent about a
>>>>>>> year uploading all of mine - kind of satisfying in a mindless,
>>>>>>> laborious sort of way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good luck with it.
>>>>>>> Mona
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4 Jun 2015, at 2:54 pm, Adam Bruins <>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hey everyone
>>>>>>>> Are there any savvy ebird users out there that could help me out? My
>>>>>>>> son and I have would like to upload our life list to ebird but can't
>>>>>>>> seem to find a way to do it without entering the exact date and other
>>>>>>>> details. All we have is a all time list and about twenty little
>>>>>>>> notebooks that would take years to sort through and upload. Any
>>>>>>>> shortcuts please!
>>>>>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>>>>> Adam Bruins
>>>>>>
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