Subject: Birding programs and possible species.
Date: Jun 8 16:02:12 1998
From: Norton360 at aol.com - Norton360 at aol.com



Bob Mauritson et al,
The recent thread on how to handle not 100% identified species makes me
realize that I have something to contribute.
When you get your program and install it in the computer, just install
the program a second time on the hard disk (with a different name). You use
the second file for any records you do not want cluttering up your main
program.
What I have done is I have entered Birdbase and that is my main file
called BIRDS. I entered the program a second time and call it OLYPENBB. I keep
on OLYPENBB all the records of Olympic Peninsula birds from other people and
my records of such things as Spencer Island Black Ducks, Washington Mute
Swans, the Iceland Gull Bill Tweit and I saw but he does not want to count as
he can't be assured had no Thayer's blood (I was convinced that it was as pure
as a gull can be) as well as formerly recognized species that I want to keep a
record of such as Black Francolin and Ringed Turtle Doves. You could easily
put birds that you are 90% sure of on that list with all the writeup you want
(I think Birdbase lets your write up to 50 pages on an entry) so you could
access them but not have them come up on your main list.
Bob Norton
norton360 at aol.com