USERS BULLETIN BOARD

LepiList Update The latest issue of LepiList is dated March 1, 2007.

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UPGRADING FROM DOS VERSIONS

Upgrading from BirdBase for DOS
Upgrading from BirdArea for DOS
Upgrading from LepiList for DOS

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FREE TRANSLATION UTILITY

If English is not your national language you may be interested in our new Translation Utility. It may also be of interest to people whose (British) English versions of some common names differ from Dr. Clements' (American) English versions. Click here for more information.

We will send the utility to you in two e-mail attachments if you send SBSP e-mail requesting it. It is also available on a CD ROM for a small shipping charge if you order only it, or for no charge if you order it along with other software.

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HANDLING INDONESIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, MALAYSIA, AND EAST TIMOR

Following Dr. Clements' advice, BirdBase and BirdArea divide Southeast Asia into its major islands instead of into its nations because the avifauna change so much from one island to the next. Nevertheless, it is easy to make BirdBase produce lists of your sightings in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, or East Timor. Just send SBSP e-mail asking for instructions and we will send them to you in an e-mail reply.

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BIRDBASE UTILITY SHAREWARE FROM CGM TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE

BB2eBird^tm  is a standalone utility that converts data exchange files of your BirdBase sightings into eBird Record Format so they can be added to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology database called eBird, which is used by research workers at the  Lab and throughout the world. It does not require the sightings of each trip be uploaded one at a time. Instead, sightings of many trips -- some of which were entered in BirdBase with no idea that they would later be used by a project such as eBird -- can be uploaded in one operation. Yet they will be easy for the scientists to interpret because of the way the sightings have been sorted and annotated. Here are reactions to BB2eBird by two eBird Project Leaders. "From the eBird perspective this looks great": Brian L. Sullivan; "I second Brian's comments that this is really excellent and will be great to release to our eBird users": Marshall J. Iliff.

Click here to see the BB2eBird users manual .

To download the BB2eBird utility first follow the link below this line for detailed download instructions.
Download instructions

Then click the link below this line to do the download.
Download the BB2eBird utility EBIRDUTL.EXE

Tripreport^tm is a utility that uses BirdBase data exchange files to produce HTML formatted web pages. These can be published immediately on the Internet, or viewed and printed by your web browser, or sent to friends as e-mail attachments for viewing and printing by their web browsers. The program displays your sightings in a compact and attractive manner, with a variety of possible styles.

Shortlist^tm saves and restores BirdBase short lists. Since loading a new short list into BirdBase overwrites the existing short list, you will find the program invaluable if you use one short list created manually with the BirdBase Specify short list option (such as My Locale) and also use some of the hundreds of short lists that can be created automatically by BirdArea. It will be equally worthwhile if you use more than one manually created short list (such as My Locale and My Home) even if no automatically created short lists are used.

Contact pbono@prba.com for more details and copies of Tripreport and Shortlist.