[Birdtalk] FW: [IBLE] Avisys

[James D. McIntyre]

>From IBLE.

 

Jim

 

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From: ible at yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
bike4birds
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:40 AM
To: ible at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Avisys

 

I have been waiting for Harry Krueger to answer Lew's post, since 
Harry is the one who convinced me that Avisys was the way to go. I 
own Thayer's Birds of North America, which lets you keep track of 
your birds besides providing a comprehensive guide with video and 
audio, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new guide to 
track my Hawaii list. Then I tried Thayer's Birders Diary, but it was 
difficult to use, caused computer problems and was generally a pain 
in the butt. (Then Thayer abandoned the program and gave/sold it back 
to its creator.) So during our "Big Day" Harry suggested I try 
Avisys, and I can honestly say I'm hooked. It makes entering 
sightings simple, and it allows you to track by location, date and a 
bunch of other variables. I can highlight a bird and it will tell me 
all the times I have ever entered that bird in the program. It will 
tell me what birds I've seen out of all those in North America, plus 
tell me how many of those I've actually seen in Idaho. My Hawaii 
birds went in easily, so now I have a NA list and a World list, with 
2 different totals. I can bring up a list of all the birds Harry and 
I saw on our big day, or I can bring up a list of all the birds I saw 
on my last Malheur trip or bike ride or Hulls Gulch walk. I can 
create a list for a trip to another state, but when I started to do 
that for Utah recently, I decided I didn't want to print out 7 pages. 
All in all, a great, simple program. Tom McCabe, Boise 

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