On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Tweeters,
>
> I am not a regular E-Bird user, having put my efforts into AviSys instead.
> I also have slow Internet at home, and do not use any high-tech gizmos in
> the field, having barely the savvy to make a call on the cell phone that my
> wife has pressed upon me.
> .....
>

Gary,

AviSys is very nice product, no doubt about it, I have used it in the past
and may use it again in the future. As I see it, one of the most significant
features/advantages of eBird is that sightings are going into a huge shared
database (at Cornell Lab of Ornithology) available to anyone - birders,
conservationists, biologists, etc. - in various forms and for various
purposes. (Almost as important all eBird locations are geo-referenced in a
coordinate based system and viewable on Google maps with a satellite or map
overlay and usable in GIS applications). Most of the commercially available
bird records software, including AviSys, now provide an interface to eBird
so that birders using these tools can also contribute their sightings to
eBird. Depending on what version of AviSys you have this may be a free
upgrade (check the AviSys web site). Loading records to eBird from AviSys
may not be trivial initially but once your locations are set up in eBird it
should be fairly straight forward. Also eBird should run pretty well at
dial-up speeds and it is web based so there is no software to install,
simply go to www.eBird.org, register as a new user, and start submitting
checklists (there is a helpful tutorial/getting started guide on the eBird
site).

Charles.


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Charles Swift
Moscow, ID
chaetura at gmail.com
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