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USERS BULLETIN BOARD

BirdArea range data errors
Birding programs update schedule
Current birding programs updates
Add-ons
Add-on updates
LepiList update
DOS upgrades
Free translation utility
Handling Southeast Asian nations
eBird utility and other shareware

BIRDAREA RANGE DATA ERRORS

Several errors have been discovered in the BirdArea range data file RANGES.LST shipped from December 1, 2008 to February 5, 2009. If you think your copy could have been shipped during this period, but are not sure, follow instructions in the next two paragraphs. Your situation will be dealt with when you get to the last sentence of the second paragraph..

The EditData utility makes it easy to correct these errors -- easier than downloading and installing a new RANGES.LST file. Run the utility by double-clicking the EditData desktop icon. (If you have not installed its desktop icon click Start. Click Computer, My Computer or Windows Explorer depending on what version of Windows you have. Navigate to the BirdArea folder, which is usually named BIRDS. Then double-click the icon labeled EDWIN.) At the EditData main menu click Edit. Click Com.Find. Type the species common name. Click OK. Click Use. Scroll to the middle or last third of the range data panel. Click the box labeled by the appropriate two-letter code to add it to the range. Click Save. Make the next correction. When finished click Quit.

These are the corrections to be made. Mascarene Shearwater: add ZI. White-throated Mountain-gem: add PA. Gorgeted Puffleg: add CO. Antioquia Brush-Finch: add CO. Olive Oropendola: add BO, BR, CO, EC, PE and VE. If you find that the Mascarene Shearwater range already contains ZI your copy of the range data file was shipped after February 5, 2009 and there is no need to do anything more.

After making all the corrections, people using BirdArea with BirdBase do not need to run Match BirdBase but should restart BirdArea. Those using BirdArea with AviSys should copy the new RANGES.LST file to the AviSys dataset folder and then run its Certify utility.

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FUTURE DATA UPDATE SCHEDULE FOR BIRDBASE, BIRDAREA AND EDITDATA

Henceforth we will issue species and subspecies data updates for BirdBase, and species/ranges data updates for BirdArea and EditData, soon after Cornell issues its species names and taxonomy updates in October of each year.

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THE CURRENT BIRDBASE, BIRDAREA, AND EDITDATA UPDATES

BirdBase Updates The latest issue of the BirdBase program file is dated May 1, 2009. The latest species data file that it uses is dated December 15, 2008.
BirdArea and EditData Updates The latest issues of the BirdArea and the EditData program files are dated May 1, 2008. The latest species/ranges data file that both programs use is dated December 15, 2008.

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ADD-ONS

Click below to find out how the three add-ons make BirdBase and BirdArea even more powerful.

Pocket PC Add-On
All Subspecies Add-On
Mammal Data Add-On

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ADD-ON UPDATES

All Subspecies Add-On Update The latest All Subspecies Add-On update is dated December 15, 2008.
Mammal Data Add-On Update The latest Mammal Data Add-On update is dated March 1, 2004.

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LEPILIST UPDATE

LepiList now supports the Pocket PC.

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

BB2eBirdtm  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

Tripreporttm 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.

Shortlisttm 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.

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