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: 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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