Delete a location
How to remove a location you no longer want, and what to do when Bird Journal tells you it is still in use.
Updated
Locations are managed in one place, and it works the same way on every device — Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web app.
Deleting one
- Open Locations. On a computer it is a button on the toolbar; on a phone it is in the ⋮ menu at the top right.
- Find the location, using the Search box if the list is long, and select it.
- Press Delete at the foot of the panel.
- Press Save.
Nothing is actually removed until you press Save, so a mistaken delete costs nothing — close the screen without saving and the location is still there.
When it will not delete
If the location is being used, the button says so instead: Cannot delete; used in N places. Bird Journal will not quietly take something away that your records depend on.
Three things count as using a location:
- Entries made there.
- Other locations that sit inside it, which name it as their parent.
- Library items such as checklists, which use it as their location range.
So the way through is to find those uses and point them somewhere else — move the entries to another location, re-parent the locations beneath it, change the checklist’s range — after which the Delete button comes back to life.
Built-in locations
Continents, countries and, for some countries, counties come with Bird Journal rather than being yours. They are shown greyed in the list and cannot be edited or deleted. That is deliberate: they are what everybody else’s locations hang from too.