Hi Peter,
If you enter them via birdlog you can search for each bird and save plenty of
time.
Cheers,
Rob
On 06/06/2015, at 5:27 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
> I don't mind entering lists for new trips as I do them, but I wish there was
> a faster way to enter the backlog. Does anyone have any tips for doing it
> quicker?
>
> The main trouble is that my notes list species as I encountered them, which
> means trawling up and down the web page to find them to mark them off. It
> would help if I knew the species list order off by heart, but I've only got a
> rough idea where any species is in the list, so I have to search for a lot of
> them. I've tried going through my notes doing all the pigeons, then the
> parrots, etc, but that means I've got to go through them multiple times, so
> it wastes as much time as it saves.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 2:53 pm, Paul Coddington
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> I did the same as Mona, and agree that it’s rather mindless and laborious
>> but very satisfying, and a good way to trigger nostalgic memories by
>> reviewing all those old trips. I started with Australian trips where I saw
>> lifers, and it only took me a couple of months or working on it now and then
>> to get the Australian life list sorted, then I worked on trips that built my
>> state list, then overseas trips, then everything else. Overall it took about
>> a year but now it’s all done and it’s easy to enter new lists.
>>
>> eBird is a great resource, and the the more people use it, and the more
>> information is added to it, the more useful it becomes.
>>
>>>
>>> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:31:37 +1000
>>> From: Mona Loofs Samorzewski <>
>>> To: Adam Bruins <>
>>> Cc: "" <>
>>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Ebird
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>>>
>>> Hi Adam
>>>
>>> eBird does specifically cater to this very issue, check out the ?How to
>>> Upload Your Lifelist? help topic at
>>> http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/973912
>>>
>>> If you have the time and the inclination, all those lists in your 20-odd
>>> notebooks would add fabulous data to eBird. I?ve spent about a year
>>> uploading all of mine - kind of satisfying in a mindless, laborious sort of
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Good luck with it.
>>> Mona
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 4 Jun 2015, at 2:54 pm, Adam Bruins <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey everyone
>>>> Are there any savvy ebird users out there that could help me out? My son
>>>> and I have would like to upload our life list to ebird but can't seem to
>>>> find a way to do it without entering the exact date and other details. All
>>>> we have is a all time list and about twenty little notebooks that would
>>>> take years to sort through and upload. Any shortcuts please!
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>> Adam Bruins
>>
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