I didn't realise I had to hold it for a while before dragging the pin. And it
appears I can only move it once after it's been dropped. After that, if I want
to move it again, I have to drop it and then drop it again.
Is this stuff documented anywhere?
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
> On 3 Dec 2013, at 6:17 pm, "Guy Gibbon" <> wrote:
>
> 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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