Bird ID for Palm OS

About Bird ID

Bird IDby TapPoint® is birding software that acts like an expert companion to your favoriteNorth American bird field guide book, providing both species identification bylocation, color, group and/or length, and a sightings recording database. Using a unique map-based species range database, Bird ID generatesan automatic custom checklist of species expected at your exact geographicallocation.  Unlike other checklist systems that generate a checklist atthe state level, Bird ID's checklist will be smaller and more accurate, andtherefore easier to work with.  For example, the checklist for an inlandlocation in California is quite different from a coastal location, as is asouthern location vs. a northern location, mountain vs. valley, etc.       Use Bird ID before you start flipping pagesin your field guide to save a significant amount of time identifying newspecies.  Using a field guide alone, you typically guess on the bird'staxonomy group to find out where to start, then start flipping through pageslooking at colors, then finally eliminate species after species via their rangemaps.  Bird ID turns this process around and automates most of it, by firstfiltering all species based on their expected range, then allowing you to searchby what you saw, such as colors or length, then referring you to the pages inyour field guide for only those species that are closematches to your observations.       After identification, you can easily recordyour sightings in the Windows and/or Palm OS versions, where Bird ID will trackyour sightings by location, species and date, and track your progress againstyour custom checklists, as well as your "Life List" of all sightings.         Great Features for both Novice and Experienced Birders all in One Smalland Simple Package:

• Automatically generates custom species checklists for your exact geographical location
• Includes species data for all 805 North American species, including full color range maps
• Identify species by location, month, group, length, and/or colors
• References page numbers in your favorite field guide book
• Quickly lookup species by name
• Record and edit sightings with counts and text notes
• Define multiple geographical locations for your excursions, each with its own checklist and sightings list
• Master "Life List" tracks all of your sightings from all locations
• Takes less than 500k of device memory, and no expansion cards or add-on programs needed!
• Includes free Windows desktop version with full two-way synchronization of your sightings to the handheld, allowing you to make and track sightings on either device, print checklists, export sighting data to other programs, and more: