Subject: MS Access Bird Database ??
Date: Feb 7 18:23:31 2002
From: Rosalind Philips - rosalind115 at attbi.com
So you want to create your own database or just use something that already
exist?
Access is a fine tool and you probably can import bits and pieces of
information into it from various sources. It might be easier just to get
birding lists from different states and then look it up on paper. It would
be a lot of keying in. Does anyone know if there is a database that
already does this? Might the CBC lists be a possible source?
Rosalind Philips
Tumwater, WA
rosalind115 at attbi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bartlett" <bbart at ix.netcom.com>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:58 PM
Subject: MS Access Bird Database ??
> Sure wish I could query a bird database by location and have it return all
> the birds that I might see there - at a certain season. For example, what
> might birds might I see in "Florida" in the "summer"?
>
> I would load up the database with birds I have NOT yet seen, and
presumably
> the geographical location they are found for the various (4) seasons. I
> suppose the geographical data would be one or more state names, although
> this is admittedly imprecise.
>
> A flat database (like Excel for example) does not seem to be able to do
what
> I want. Might MS Access work, or is there a better (i.e. simpler) way to
do
> something like this?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Linda B
> llbart at scn.org
> Covington, WA
>