Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:56:51 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sally rowe Subject: Re: Recommendations for CD-ROM on Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel F. McDonald To: Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Recommendations for CD-ROM on Birds > The Avisys program lets you compile just about any kind of list you desire: > life, county, state, backyard, specie x, you name it. > > Georgia McDonald > Towson, Balt Co > dangeo@erols.com > > Gerald & Laura Tarbell wrote: > > > Just a comment about the Thayer Birds of North America program and keeping a > > life list with it. Each bird in the program can be checked as 'observed' or > > left as 'not observed'. However, to the best of my knowledge, there is no > > way to download a list of your observed birds to give you a life list. There > > are numerous checklists in the program, but they are not interactive. You > > can print them off and check things off manually (the old fashioned > > way -with a pencil) but again, to the best of my knowledge there is no life > > list in the program. That seems to be the function of the birder's diary > > program which is much more expensive (listed at $140 on the Thayer website). > > Jerry > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bonnie Ott" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 8:06 AM > > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Recommendations for CD-ROM on Birds > > > > > I want to purchase a CD-ROM on North American birds that includes the > > > > ability to maintain records of sitings for my life list. > > > > > > I recommend Thayers. You can keep a basic life list with the Birds of > > > North American program. The program is very nice with thousands of photos, > > > video clips and songs. They also have a listing program - Birder's Diary - > > > which is solely a list keeping program. The other listing software is > > > Avisys. (spelling?) You can probably check MDosprey archives since we > > > discussed the merits of each at length last winter. > > > > > > Bonnie Ott > > > Howard County Field Trip Chair > > > Ellicott City, MD > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > > ======================================================================= > > > > ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================