Pocket
Bird Recorder version 2 for Palm™
OSAll
you need to record your sightings in the field
Easy
and fast to use
 | Enter your
sightings in minutes on a Palm Pilot device
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| Find out how
many species you have seen on any particular day
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| Find out how
many species you have seen on your trip
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| Find out how
many new species you have recorded
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| Rapidly exchange
data with your desktop recording package
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Play back WAV sound clips (Sound clips not provided)
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Backup and restore data to SD card.
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With its simple and
rapid data entry capabilities and the ability to exchange
data with your desktop package, Pocket Bird Recorder
genuinely allows you to record your sightings in the
field, making your records more accurate and saving time
on your return home.
See a demo here
Features
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Requires a suitable desktop Bird Records system such as
Bird Recorder 32
Minimum
System Requirements
Pocket
Bird Recorder will run on any Palm Pilot device with
the following specification:
OS
Palm OS 3.0 or higher, 2mb or more of RAM.
Palm OS 4.0 or higher required for backups.
Palm OS 5.0 or higher required for sound playback.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE
Pocket Bird Recorder is not compatible with the version of Hotsync
(v6.0.1) shipped with the new Tungsten T5. Unfortunately Palm have
not maintained backward compatibility in this release. It is
unlikely that we will have a version compatible with this version in the
foreseeable future. We cannot therefore recommend any device like
the Tungsten T5 or any device running the new OS5.4x or OS6 operating
systems.
Purchasing
Pocket Bird
Recorder is available by post from Wildlife Computing.
Description
With Pocket
Bird Recorder and a Palm Pilot device you can quickly record
the birds you see and the sites you have visited while
actually out in the field.
Pocket
Bird Recorder is easy and extremely fast to use.
The Palm Pilot will recognise you handwriting so that
all program tasks can be performed using the stylus to
click buttons or write notes in your writing
Pocket
Bird Recorder allows you to enter trip details,
details of species seen and details of the sites visited.
Sightings are automatically summarised to provide a
running list of the birds seen. When used with a suitable
package such as Bird Recorder 32 it will
even tell you how many new species of birds you have seen
on your trip.
Pocket
Bird Recorder is designed to be used as a front
end to any PC based Bird Records system that can accept
the files exported from it. It can also be used as a
standalone system, although limited by the volumes of
data which can sensibly be held on a palm-sized PC. Pocket
Bird Recorder comes complete with bird species
lists for Europe and North America.
Pocket
Bird Recorder is completely integrated into the Bird
Recorder 32 package to allow easy uploading and
downloading of information. A Windows utility is also
provided to allow files to be uploaded from and
downloaded into other packages.
Specification
The
exact nature of the information that you can enter and
share with your PC based recording system is noted below:
Trips
The
following information can be entered:
| Site
name. |
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| Free
form notes about the trip. |
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| Date and
time of trip. |
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Sightings
Sightings
are entered within the context of a trip. The following
information can be recorded:
| Species
name. |
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| Status
e.g. heard, escape, breeding etc. |
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| Number
of Individuals. |
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| Free
form notes. |
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| Ages and
sexes of individuals recorded. |
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Sites
The
following information can be recorded about the sites you
visit:
| Site
name, state/county name, and country
name. |
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| Altitude. |
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| Location
map reference (latitude/longitude). |
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| Free
form notes. |
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List
Pocket
Bird Recorder automatically summarises the
sightings that you have entered.
This
summary can be viewed at any time, giving an immediate
summary of the species seen, and a count of the total
number of species. When used in conjunction with species
lists uploaded from Bird Recorder it will
also indicate which birds are new to your list.
In
addition to the automatic summary you can request a
summary for a particular day or site any
time.
You can obtain a
quick summary of all the sites at which a selected species was recorded.
Exchanging
information with Bird Recorder 32.
Pocket
Bird Recorder comes with a conduit which allows complete
integration with a desktop system, such as Bird Recorder 32, via the
Palm Pilot HotSync facility.
| Upload
species list based on the current Species
displayed in an open view window. Using
the Bird Recorder Distribution Query this
enables you to upload a species list for
any country to your palm-sized PC. |
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| Upload
species list based on any of your own
lists. |
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| Upload
sites list based on the current Sites
displayed in an open view window. For
example you could display all sites for a
particular country and upload them to your Palm Pilot
device. |
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| Download
the trip and sighting information from
your Palm Pilot device and add it to your
database on your desktop PC. |
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| Download
the site information from your Palm Pilot Device and add it to your database on your
desktop PC. |
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Exchanging
information with other PC packages.
Pocket
Bird Recorder comes with a PC utility that allows
you to transfer ASCII files between your desktop and the Palm Pilot
device. The utility allows the following:
| Upload
an ASCII file containing species names to
the device and incorporate the
names in the Pocket Bird Recorder Database. |
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| Upload
an ASCII file containing site names to
the device and incorporate the
names in the Pocket Bird Recorder Database. |
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| Extract
sighting data from the Pocket Bird
Recorder database and create an
ASCII file on the desktop PC. |
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| Extract
site data from the Pocket Bird
Recorder database and create an
ASCII file on the PC. |
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These
files must be in the particular format required by Pocket
Bird Recorder, therefore you must be using a PC
based recording system, such as our Wildlife
Recorder or Wildlife Lister packages, which has the capability of
creating/importing the correct format files.
Alternatively you can use any other system if it is
capable of making a file in the correct format.
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