I haven’t mentioned Birdtrack for a while – but if you read these blogs carefully then you’ll realise that I am still using it religiously otherwise I’d never have the stats for my birding at my local patch so much to hand.
I have downloaded the new, and greatly improved, iPhone Birdtrack app (it’s free) and it works very well. I originally had some problems with it (it kept suggesting that I had seen outlandish birds – nice of it in a way, but not helpful), but being expert in these things I deleted it and reloaded it, and, fingers crossed, all seems well now. Well, if Apple could make an iPhone whose battery lasted and whose battery indicator didn’t lie so often, then all would be fine!
Modern technology has its benefits and disbenefits – Birdtrack is a definite benefit for me. And I get that nice warm feeling that my records are being made available to others too.
[registration_form]
I’ve found a little gizmo that I carry with me to charge up my smartphone (Android, is there a Birdtrack app for that yet?) in the field. It carries about three full charges and is called a pebble ( other makes are, doubtless, available).
Birdtrack works on very well on Android, I have been using it for a couple of years.
Thanks Chris, me to. I meant the new, and greatly improved app that Mark mentions.
I’m not sure whether that one is available yet Richard but, if it is, I will give it a go.
Yes BirdTrack is great. A fabulous resource for birders, wether casual or serious. Having entered records from 2004 to present, it has created a wealth of data and stats on my birding life. The ‘Explore my records’ tool is very useful, bringing up a multitude of graphs & tables, enabling individual records to be filtered.
As you already touch on Mark, the records entered contribute to our understanding of bird phenology, thus contributing to their conservation.