Given that many birders travel extensively and, when doing so record most mammal species that the see, could a World mammals list be included in the library?

At some point in the future it would be good if you could choose a Survey Category, so you could link Observation and Entry properties to only those categories.

For instance. If you are observatory and you are inputting ringing records, you could have properties like: Ring number, fat, wing length, age, weight...etc, but only have them show in the entry window when you choose the Survey Category: ‘Ringing’? And the same could be done for Moth Trapping, Butterfly Transects and others.

Those categories could also be used for entry searches.

Add a new "Year Firsts Count" graph. It would look much like the current Year Species Count graph, but instead of showing the species count for each year it would show the number of lifers/firsts (filterable) for each year.

After discussion via Facebook & Twitter this was considered a "nice to have" rather than "must have", etc. Feel free to vote for it if you would like to see it added!

(It's pretty easy to do.)

Justin

I would like to export reports directly to a alternative folder to "downloads" but cannot find out how to create an alternative path. Is this possible?

I think it would be great if you could share an individual observation or a daily summary on Facebook/Twitter that would include a single photo if you had attached one.

It would also be great if it included your field notes in addition to the standard observation stats.

Being able to change the sort order to "by species" would be very helpful for a quick overview, rather than having to open each species in the Species list.

They can be very difficult to select and move, especially on smaller screens.

HBWC taxonomy takes its inputs from all available "fixed" taxonomies on a collaborative basis and is under constant review. Have you considered adding an HBW World list to the library?

Export is not possible for this report at the moment, unlike other reports. The reason is there is too much formatting to output as the typical CSV file.

If you'd like to see this, please specify whether you would like the export as CSV without formatting of any kind or as an XLS file with formatting.

Of course, please consider we may be able to add the flexibility needed to the report so you don't need to export it and modify it manually. We'd prefer that, as everyone will benefit from the easy customization.

Justin

Create a special property "Exclude" that removes a record from all totals, badges etc. This would allow people to include thins like heard-only, NTVs, escapes etc., but not have them added to totals etc.

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.

In the desktop application, Reintroduce keyboard shortcuts that allow you to jump to a specific property in an observation record, eg, Heard only, which at present require a mouse-click

The "correct" set of subspecies this is. This may be possible using IOC range data, though there may be the occasional error. But it would allow a starting point for future iteration - we could happily accept amendments.

Add feedback on the status of sync in both the Android and iOS mobile apps.

As Bird Journal is organised in months, it would be nice to have a feature where you could write a monthly summary with chosen images and map locations. This in turn could be exported in a format that could be uploaded to a blog or Facebook?

In the desktop application, it’d be more convenient if the new Entry screen defaulted to the last date the user selected, rather than today’s date. That way, when entering a sequence of historical records, you would not have to scroll through the calendar repeatedly at the start of each entry. It could still default to today when the program is first opened.

Is it possible to generate a map of locations without having to log sightings for these in the first instance?

When setting up the database for different countries I first enter all of the locations that I visited or intended to visit.. It would be good if these locations could be viewed on a map first.

Also, from a bird club point of view it would be very useful to be able to generate a map of all of the commonly used locations/sites.

Custom report allowing you to compare species lists between sites, ability to highlight species common to some / all the selected sites and species only recorded at one - initially direct comparison between two sites would be great, this is something I manually do at the moment.

Add the possibility to manually change gps-plot and time in the apps!