Thanks to Bob Forsyth for his persistent tracking of these things, and for
others who have put lists online, the Birding-Aus website will soon have a
section devoted to LISTS. Most of the lists will remain on their compilers'
sites (for copyright reasons essentially) but you will be able to follow a
link to each State list as well as some other Aussie lists provided by sites
around the web.
I intend to make the Australian List available in a number of formats. This
is what I'm assembling at the moment.
HTML (for viewing online)
Tab-delimted text
Word 97 (Windows)
Word 6 (Windows/Mac)
Word 2001 (Mac)
Excel 97 (Windows)
Excel 6 (Windows/Mac)
Excel 2001 (Mac)
Filemaker Pro (Windows/Mac)
Sorry, can't do MS Access - but if you use that you can import from most of
these - FoxPro and Dbase users will be clever enough to figure it out for
themselves! Is there another format I've overlooked?
I will use Christidis & Boles (1994) plus additions approved by BARC unless
someone convinces me there is a better way. I can't believe how many
different 'versions' of the Australian list are out there.
For the Geelong region, and a few other places, I have a number of lists in
hardcopy (remember paper?) that I will transfer to the site when I get time.
If anyone else has local and regional birdlists online, please let me know
and I'll link to your site.
At this stage I don't have a NSW list - but there is a better solution for
this state. The NSW Atlas of Wildlife is online and fully searchable - you
can even draw your own survey area onto a map on the site - and covers
birds, mammals, herps, etc. It's at http://wildlifeatlas.npws.nsw.gov.au/
and is VERY addictive!
Comments would be welcome - I'll start putting lists online in a week or so,
but they won't all appear magically at once! Please be patient, or help out
by sending me your favourite list or a link to it.
Cheers
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
http://www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/
Geelong Victoria Australia
38º 04' 09" S 144º 23' 53" E
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