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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bird count recording software

This is a Tcl/tk program, which I personally run on a number of different platforms.

My main mobile machine is a windows mobile 5  PDA.  But I am sure anyone used to installing Tcl/tk programs can run it on virtually anything.

click to download program file

It makes use of a gps input socket ( eg com4: ), a text list of birds ( or whatever ), and an output file.

People should be able to hack their way through it fairly easily if they want to.

features include

- adding to an ordered list of 'species' ( I have common species alphabetically, then less common alphabetically)
- searching in the past records
- giving distance, and direction ( oclock to direction of walk) to bird
- adding comments
- recording some basic attributes male, singing , adult
- simultaneously records a backup in case of failure
- directly calling Tck commands

Treat as being opensource under GPL please.

martin

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