Tweeters,

I've been looking into getting some birding software. Some
of it seems like overkill for a non-expert like me. But
AviSys is closer to my level.

However, one "feature" of my non-expertness is that I often
have imprecise ID's for birds. I don't want to have to keep
records in different places, expecially for trips, but what
does one do with ID's that amount to: "some kind of flycatcher";
Possible Say's Phoebe; an accipiter; or a sparrow with this and
that and this on it; or even 90% sure that's a whatzit.

I don't really want to ignore these vaguely ID'd birds, since
I did "see" them, but they also don't fit into high-precision
databases, either. Is the politically correct thing to do to
just ignore these observations? There are still parts of the
observation that may help in the future, say the time of year,
location, type of bird, etc, and maybe I'll know better what it
was sometime down the line. When one goes out on a multi-
day birding trip, even the vague ones are part of the excitement.
And for that matter, so are the non-bird animals.

So, is there software that allows for perhaps a degree of
uncertainty? Or for points higher up in the classification
hierachy? Or for other animals seen? Or for other similar
stuff?

Thanks.

Bob Mauritsen
bluetooth at csi.com