Dear Friends:
MIST Software Associates, Inc., is pleased to announce the imminent release of:
EnjoyBirds - a digital field guide to all AOU species - - the birds of
Hawaii, Panama and Trinidad northward
to include all territory (USA, Mexico, all the Caribbean, etc.) to include
Alaska and Canada.
The software will run in the DOS emulation of any Windows 95 or 98 computer
from the desktop, and it
Features:
- ALL current AOU Checklist species, including appendices, plus all species
in Trinidad and Tobago - a total of 2166 full species, through the 43rd AOU
supplement.
- ALL have diagnostic color illustrations and field mark captions
- ALL birds are named in English, Spanish, French and German
- ALL seasonal ranges are mapped wherever they fall within the nominal area:
7 to 70 degrees north latitude; 50 to 170 degrees west longitude,
(excluding South America itself).
- 1 - 4 sounds are presented with labelled color spectra for over 820 of
the common species.
- verbal announcements for all species to help you to pronounce the English
and Scientific names.
- seasonally prioritized habitat types are listed for ALL species
- eight UserBooks (site selection filters, A - H) can each be set to only
show the birds found
* at one exact location (map-clickable, this is Geo-Choice, Patent Pending)
* at one exact altitude (clickable on an elevation profile)
* during any one season or for the full year
- once set, any UserBook can have locations added to it, by 1 to 10 simple
map clicks
- each of the eight UserBooks will store your field notes with each species.
- you can generate reports for printing or email purposes, with or without
your field notes.
- every map display will provide the label (name) of any spot on which you
click (e.g. St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles)
- using Geo-Find, over 200 place names can be looked up alphabetically and
shown in red on the main map.
- the whole program runs equally well in English or Spanish.
- the birds can be found by appearance or sound by:
** running through a Gallery slide-show of thumbnail pictures, or
** using an (on the fly) Catalog or table of contents of orders and
families, or
** using the {Look Like} or {Sound like} button, or
** using the click-drag pop-up scroll-bar family index, or
** page up or down through the main list, and double-click any species to
see/hear it.
- this software comprises the first example of CABTIPS (Computer-Aided Bird
Trip Information Planning Software)
- Software is designed to be most useful on small field computers (low
resolution, very diagnostic illustrations, silence-compressed full-fidelity
sound files)
- using a Geo-Choice UserBook you can connect a cassette recorder to your
computer headphone jack and record your own custom announced audio tape for
your planned trip location. With the Gallery button, you can choose to have
the announcements come either before or after each bird species sounds.
- a custom Quiz allow the user to set a UserBook for any location and then
test their skill of bird ID by appearance and or sounds.
- this product scrupulously gives credit to all the many scientists,
birders, books, recordists (you know who you are!), reviewers and guides
who have contributed their details and efforts to make this project better;
to all we hereby extend our gratitude.
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Now, you can have a reference that simply allows beginners to ID seasonal
birds at their home feeder, as from a local custom bird book, or takes you
into the cloud forests of Chiapas, Mexico or Monteverde, Costa Rica with
hundreds of birds with new names, looks and sounds, all from the same
low-cost PC software. Run it from Cd-ROM or load it into your notebook hard
drive for portable use.
Many of our (copyrighted) species color illustrations have been already
donated to the non-profit Biodiversity Institute, and can be pre-viewed at:
http://www.bdi.org/
MIST plans to begin shipping discs this fall. They can be pre-ordered for
the retail price of $ 59 at the below address. Please, no email orders.
Wildside Birding / Adventure Camera has plans to include a copy of
EnjoyBirds for each participant of its future birding trips, and will
demonstrate the software at its booth at the birding show at Cape May, New
Jersey next month.
Happy Birding!
Marty Michener
MIST Software Associates
PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
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