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Bird listing software

To: Dave Torr <>
Subject: Bird listing software
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:14:04 +1000
And of course we all keep field notebooks, into which we first put our 
sightings, don't we.

Cheers,
Carl Clifford

On 24/07/2012, at 8:52, Dave Torr <> wrote:

> Online or local is a key decision and there are no "right or wrong" answers.
> 
> Most online systems probably have good backup and security mechanisms and
> you can access them from any PC (or other device!) in the world if there is
> an Internet connection. Unfortunately (as we saw with birdinfo and with
> many other online service in other areas) their commercial model may not
> work too well and you should always make sure that you have some form of
> local copy of your data in case they disappear one day. (And this is NOT in
> any way intended as a criticism of Eremaea, which I think is a great site!)
> Having the data on your own PC means you are not dependant on the internet
> (which can be important - I usually take my PC on birding trips and they
> are often in places without Internet access) but many people fail to back
> up their own PCs and when the disaster strikes (in my case water spilt in
> the PC) they lose everything - only I didn't as I am paranoid about
> backups. And as I wrote my own system it can give me all the reports I want!
> So there are pros and cons both ways - of course having data in an online
> system means that others can benefit from your sightings! One thing I have
> learnt is not to trust the statistics from online sites - some people tend
> to record highlights and not report the common stuff so you find that stuff
> which you see every time at a site gets reported only 50% of the time.
> 
> On 23 July 2012 18:14, Tim Bawden <> wrote:
> 
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