Peter et al,
eBird have brought the Birdlog App "in-house" and modified it to iron out
these problems. It will look and feel more like the on-line data entry, and
is already being beta tested by reviewers.
Roger.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shute
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 8:28 PM
To: Sonja Ross
Cc: Paul Coddington ;
Subject: Ebird
I've just sent them all my complaints. Do they act on suggestions they
receive?
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
> On 7 Jun 2015, at 7:19 pm, Sonja Ross <> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> It is annoying! Have you tried to contact them about it?
>
> Sonja
>> On 7 Jun 2015, at 6:00 pm, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>
>> The only way I've found to select a location not near me in Birdlog is to
>> select the Search Hotspots By City option, then enter the postcode of
>> that area. Then it lists all the hotspots in that area, which you can
>> search by entering a few letters. I don't know what you can do if you
>> need to enter data where there's no existing hotspot. Or if you don't
>> know the postcode.
>>
>> Seems like a strange shortcoming of the app.
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 6:09 pm, Paul Coddington
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>> I usually just use the standard search function on the computer to jump
>>> to the species I want in the web interface, using the keyboard shortcuts
>>> so it’s faster (i.e. command F to search on my Mac), type in a few
>>> letters of the name (e.g “whist”), and then command G if it doesn’t go
>>> to the species I want (Whistling Kite instead of Golden Whistler) and I
>>> need to jump to the next one that matches what I typed in. It’s a bit
>>> slow but not too bad.
>>>
>>> Using the Birdlog app is really quick for entering data since you just
>>> type in a few letters and it autocompletes and then you just pick the
>>> species from the matches it presents. But I can’t figure out how to
>>> select locations that aren’t near you when you’re using the app, so you’d
>>> need to pick a bogus location (e.g. a personal location for your house)
>>> and then change the location to the actual place through the web
>>> interface once the list is uploaded from BirdLog.
>>>
>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 4:57 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
>>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>> <>
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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