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Gastronaut

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• Jan 15, 2016

• #1

Can anyone please recommend any software suitable for entering large numbers of moth records with minimum effort - which works on Mac.

Thanks

 

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Dom F

Well-known member

• Jan 15, 2016

• #2

I use Bird Journal for all my wildlife records. They have a preloaded UK macro moth taxon list and I think a micro taxon list as well. For other countries you have to create your own custom list. Allows you to store images with each spp record - I find it easy to use. I think they have a Mac version

 

davidg

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• Jan 18, 2016

• #3

MapMate is pretty good and used by a lot of moth-ers. I imagine there is a Mac version.

David

 

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Dom F

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• Jan 18, 2016

• #4

davidg said:

MapMate is pretty good and used by a lot of moth-ers. I imagine there is a Mac version.

David

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The only problem I had with MapMate was that is was purely UK, that may have changed but I wanted all my records be they moths or birds to be in one place.

 

davidg

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• Jan 18, 2016

• #5

Dom F said:

The only problem I had with MapMate was that is was purely UK, that may have changed but I wanted all my records be they moths or birds to be in one place.

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I must admit I'm probably the last person to give advice on wildlife recording - my records are all over the place! I only use MapMate for UK moth recording, and mainly because it is the format that my county recorder prefers. My other records are kept on assorted spreadsheets, Word documents and blogs and I now have so many that the thought of unifying them into a single format is far too daunting!

David

 

DMW

Well-known member

• Jan 18, 2016

• #6

What about using the Moths Count online recording system http://www.mothscount.org/text/28/online_recording.html?

 

Gastronaut

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• Jan 19, 2016

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davidg said:

MapMate is pretty good and used by a lot of moth-ers. I imagine there is a Mac version.

David

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Thanks David, I've used this in the past on a Windows pc, but last time I checked there wasn't a version for Mac.

 

Gastronaut

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• Jan 19, 2016

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DMW said:

What about using the Moths Count online recording system http://www.mothscount.org/text/28/online_recording.html?

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I got the impression, maybe wrongly, that it would be a bit tedious for entering a lot of records.

 

Gastronaut

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• Jan 19, 2016

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Gastronaut said:

I got the impression, maybe wrongly, that it would be a bit tedious for entering a lot of records.

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Wrong indeed. Just had a go and it seems like quite an efficient way of doing things and with some nice features too. Entering the first record is a bit of a drag but subsequent records are then quick and easy. Think I'll persevere with it a bit longer and see how we go. Thanks for the suggestion DMW.

 

Tiraya

San Diego CA

• Jan 20, 2016

• #10

iNaturalist is good for batch entering. You can batch upload and batch edit sightings with all the needed info + unlimited photo upload, and there are various features if you want to segregate your records into "garden list 2015", "garden list 2016" etc.