Western Palearctic and Nearctic (Complete) Edition

Species

Comes with a complete and up-to-date Species database limited to:

• Birds of the Western Palearctic and North America.
• European butterflies.
• British macro and micro moths.
• British vascular plants.
• North American and European dragonflies.
• North American and European dragonflies.
• Mammals of the Western Palearctic and North America.
• Western Palearctic and North America Reptiles
• North American butterflies.

Sightings

Keeps comprehensive details about your sightings including unlimited free text notes. 

Sightings can be entered either in trip form or using the "Spreadsheet" entry facility which allows rapid entry in any sequence.

Locations

Keeps details of all the geographic areas you have visited. The database provided contains all the countries of the World plus state names for larger countries. You may enter details of States, Counties and Sites. Sub-sites can be defined if required.

Observers

Keep details of the observers who provided the sightings data.

Lists

An unlimited number of lists can be kept automatically from the sightings you have entered. Any type of lists can be produced; country, state, county, site, faunal zone, ABA/AOU lists are all possible.

Wildlife Recorder will automatically keep life lists and if required detailed year lists.

Lists are automatically calculated from sightings data. and contain information about the species seen, first and last dates, early and late dates etc.

Queries

Flexible Queries allow you to pull up a list of sightings for a site, county, country or any of the data you have entered, you can even search your free form notes. The Query designer allows you to design your own queries.

Checklist generator

Allows you to produce your own checklists based the distribution areas provided with Wildlife Recorder.
Checklists can be can be output to the printer, as a web page (HTML), an Adobe Acrobat document (PDF) or as a rich text file which can be edited using a word processor.

Linking Images and other Media

Allows you to easily link digital photographs, videos, sound clips and other media to species and your trips and sightings.

Import

Sightings and geographic information can be imported from other systems.
Conversion packages available for Birder's Diary 2.5, AviSys and BirdBase. Bird Recorder 32 data can also be transferred if required.

Export

You can export you sightings data as a comma separated file in various formats including a suitable for for import into the eBird system.

Help and Tutorials

Complete on-line help and tutorials.

Backup

Integral backup and restore utility will compress and save your data to ensure you never lose it due to PC or other failures.

Distribution Mapping

Distribution mapping of sightings can be performed using the built in distribution mapping facility (professional version only) or by interfacing to the external DMAP program (not provided). Distribution mapping facilities.

Google Earth

Your sightings can be plotted on Google Earth; your Google Earth plots can be shared with other people.
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Internet Research

You can search various sites on the Internet for information about species directly from the WR species checklist.