General
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Oceans of World added as Parent Location
As a cruiser I have records of many seabird species from Antarctica to Arctic. Having Ocean as Parent it would be easier to place eg Bering Sea in Pacific.
4 votes -
Upload PDF
It would be nice to be able to attach PDF-files to observations.
11 votes -
Keep location filter on
When working a site it would be useful to be able to keep the site filter on. Each time after a save you need to reapply filter
5 votes -
Add a country/location/patch/region first badge
Similar to the newly added Lifer! and Year First! badges, allow firsts for a country, locatation, patch or region to be indicated.
Country First could be added pretty easily.
For patch/locations we'd need to customise which locations you wanted to show firsts for. Perhaps by allowing you to "Favorite" locations? Favorite locations could also show counts on the summary screen.
What do you think? Let us know your requirements & preferences in the comments.
11 votes -
Allow to create new locations *above* built-in locations
E.g., The United Kingdom has two counties Leicestershire and Rutland. Sometimes these are reported as one and sometimes separately.
What would be nice is to create a new location "Leicestershire and Rutland" and set that as the parent for both of them.
The issue is that as Leicestershire is a built-in location (it's installed from the ISO-3166-2 location pack), it cannot be edited.
A solution could be that built-in locations do not define a parent location anymore, instead they define an "ancestor" location, and the parent location could be set as normal, but only to locations that are a descendant…
8 votes -
Sync to eBird & BirdTrack
Bird Journal's import/export from/to eBird & BirdTrack are pretty good.
It's not possible to do this from the mobile apps though.
What would be better is if you could "link" your account to your eBird & BirdTrack accounts, and Bird Journal would take care of "syncing" your records to those systems automatically, and prompting you to review something when needed.
14 votes -
Weather Trend link
Some how add a link for the Weather eg Met Office or BBC Weather, for the particular day
24 votes -
Add an Ordnance Survey grid reference tool (and perhaps Vice County too!)
This would be useful when exporting records for recording schemes. The six figure reference would be most useful, I think.
9 votes -
Update the British Counties, especially in Wales.
Some of the Englishcounties and most of the Welsh ones are missing, and could do with updating.
8 votesThanks for posting Derek. This is something we plan to address soon.
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Set the GeoTag for a new location, when created in the field
When adding a new entry in the mobile app, it will create a new location for you, if the name doesn't match any existing location.
If live mode is enabled, this location should have it's GeoTag set via the GPS.
This would make submitting to BirdTrack, which requires GeoTags for all locations, much easier.
16 votes -
Provide suggestions when entering location and species names in the mobile apps
Neither entering the name without suggestions, or picking from a list is optimal
7 votes -
Automatically empty search field after a species has been added to the entries
After you have pressed the 'done' button, to add a species to the observations, it would be convenient if the search field was emptied automatically, so you can start a new search right away
27 votes -
View photos on iOS & Android
Allow photos added using the desktop version of Bird Journal to be viewed on the iPhone/iPad/Android versions.
63 votes -
Lists
Being a person who keeps lists a facility to create a list of seen wildlife be it Geographic, circumstances. This would include Country, County Local Patch etc. I actually note wildlife I see from aircraft [sad I know] so I miss this facitlity.
7 votes -
Allow customise Species Progress graphs on summary page
It would be useful to be able to customise the graph on the Summary Page as I have little use for birds seen last day, last month etc so would like to take them off. However I would like fields like UK list, European list etc. Having facilities to customise this will be great as people can get the counts they want as soon as they go into the program.
34 votes -
Saving species entry on mobile version
It is much easier to select species from a list filtered by birds previously seen in the specific location. Unfortunately when the species added are saved, that filter is is lost when you want to add more species to the sighting, meaning you either have to filter every time you edit, or not save until you are finished adding (which could be a few hours in a location).
Two suggestions to get around this:
1. Keep the filters on after saving. This would probably need a change to the saved entry.or
2. On the species entry screen, when save…
1 vote -
allow easier linking of video and audio files as is case with photos
its great uploading pictures with records and would be great to be able to link videos and sound recordings in same way
32 votes -
Allow auto-renewing subscriptions for Europe
European tax law has changed, adding a lot of additional paperwork for us to continue selling into Europe (outside of the United Kingdom) from our website.
It is still possible to purchase single-year Bird Journal Premium subscriptions from our apps via the Apple AppStore or Google Play.
Please vote for this item if you would like us to resume selling auto-renewing subscriptions or gift certificates, Europe-wide, from our website.
2 votes -
last years spices list, which only shows birds you have yet to spot
Shows you which bird spices you have not seen this year.
14 votes -
Add an option to list locations in order of distance from your current position
This would make it much select a location, and would help prevent adding a location twice with different names. Could be linked to a database of other users sites or just include well known sites.
2 votes
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