All you need to record your sightings in the field
Easy and fast to use

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.

Features

* Requires a suitable desktop Bird Records system such as Wildlife Recorder or Wildlife Lister

Minimum System Requirements

Pocket Bird Recorder will run on any Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) device with the following specification:

Processor
Hitachi SH, MIPS, Strongarm and Intel XScale processors, 4mb or more of RAM.

Screen
Minimum size 320x240 pixels.

Communications
Connection lead for attachment to the desktop PC.

Operating System
Available for Windows CE2.1, 3.0, Pocket PC2000, , Pocket PC2002, Pocket PC2003, Pocket PC2003 2nd edition, Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC 2005) and Windows Mobile 6.

For More Information about Windows Mobile and Pocket PC click on the link below.

Purchasing

Pocket Bird Recorder is available by post from Wildlife Computing. To purchase click here.

Description

With Pocket Bird Recorder and a PDA device running the Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) operating system 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-sized PC 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 Wildlife Recorder or Wildlife Lister 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 desktop 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 Wildlife Recorder or Wildlife Lister package to allow easy uploading and downloading of information. A desktop 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:

Sightings

Sightings are entered within the context of a trip. The following information can be recorded:

Sites

The following information can be recorded about the sites you visit:

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 Wildlife Recorder or Wildlife Lister 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 site, county or country at any time.

Exchanging information with Wildlife Lister and Wildlife Recorder.

Pocket Bird Recorder is completely integrated into Wildlife Lister and Wildlife Recorder allowing the following interactions.

Exchanging information with other Desktop PC packages.

Pocket Bird Recorder comes with a Desktop PC utility that allows you to transfer ASCII files between your desktop and PDA devices running Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) OS. The utility allows the following:

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 package, 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.