The eBird app has just been released for iOS. Looks very similar to BirdLog,
but now one can search for hotspots by town names rather than having to use
postcodes. I haven't tried entering any data yet.
Oddly, when I searched for Wandiligong, the only results it returned were local
businesses rather than the town itself. Selecting one of those resulted in a
list of nearby hotspots, so the end result is the same.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Giller
> Sent: Monday, 8 June 2015 11:00 AM
> To: Peter Shute; Sonja Ross
> Cc: Paul Coddington;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] EBird
>
> 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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