Export from BirdTrack — Bird Journal Support

How to pull your records out of BirdTrack as a spreadsheet, ready to import into Bird Journal.

Open BirdTrack and sign in. The main screen has a menu down the left-hand side — click Explore data.

The BirdTrack main screen with Explore data in the left-hand menu

Then click Explore my records.

The Explore data screen, with Explore my records in the middle

A set of filters appears. Set them to cover the records you want and press Create Output.

The record filters, with the Create Output button beneath them

The matching records appear in a panel below. Click Download.

The results panel with the Download button above it

You are asked which fields to include. Select them all, then Download.

The field selection window, with every field ticked

After a moment a file called bt.xlsx arrives. Save it somewhere you will find it again.

bt.xlsx opened in a spreadsheet, showing the summary worksheet

One thing to know before importing it: the first worksheet is a summary of species, not your records. The records themselves are in the worksheets after it, named Records#1 and so on.

You can then go on to import it into Bird Journal.