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Andy Adcock
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How long is a piece of string?
The term 'best' is nebulous to say the least!
The Clements list used by many but so is the IOC.
Downloading something like Scythebill will allow at the click of a mouse to use both once you've entered the data.
http://www.scythebill.com/download.html
I personally use the IOC which adopts a slightly more liberal attitude to speciation and would be 20 odd species worse off under Clements.
Scythebill is amazing, once your data is in there you can generate a list for your next destination and it will show you all potential ticks. When searching it can be a pain to type in the whole name of a species but.....enter e.g LBBG and it will bring up all possibilites like Like Lesser Black-backed Gull, very easy to use. The hard work is actually entering the data which, depending on how much detail you want to include, can be a mammoth task, you can even import pictures.
If you use a system like this, do make sure it's backed up once complete!
Andy
The term 'best' is nebulous to say the least!
The Clements list used by many but so is the IOC.
Downloading something like Scythebill will allow at the click of a mouse to use both once you've entered the data.
http://www.scythebill.com/download.html
I personally use the IOC which adopts a slightly more liberal attitude to speciation and would be 20 odd species worse off under Clements.
Scythebill is amazing, once your data is in there you can generate a list for your next destination and it will show you all potential ticks. When searching it can be a pain to type in the whole name of a species but.....enter e.g LBBG and it will bring up all possibilites like Like Lesser Black-backed Gull, very easy to use. The hard work is actually entering the data which, depending on how much detail you want to include, can be a mammoth task, you can even import pictures.
If you use a system like this, do make sure it's backed up once complete!
Andy
