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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alancairns" data-source="post: 1626773" data-attributes="member: 11431">It has an eBird export facility.I have had the programme for a couple of weeks, and I will make a few observations.The programme is very trip-orientated. It is excellent for trip recording. I have entered my Peru and Chile trips, and it is really easy to walk through them and relive them day by day, complete with pictures, weather notes, and notes on the day and on individual species. The reporting seems limited, but in fact with judicious use of the controls one can get almost any information one wants, free of the database geekiness so prominent in other programmes.Where it is a lot less convenient is in recording sightings which are not really trips. For instance, I may see an unusual bird on my feeder, go birding the same day, cover two or three sites, and see other birds in between. As far as I can see the programme insists that each site and each individual sighting constitutes a trip. Therefore a typical birding day might generate five trips. This tends to fragment observations, and leads to clutter. To minimize this I tend to store up my observations for a week and enter them as Saturday trips covering the weeks. This makes searching by dates difficult. If I have 12 feeder observations and one for the local marsh I am tempted to enter them all under feeder, with a note on the duck, so searching places becomes difficult.Other than this the programme is well thought out. Data entry is a breeze, and there is no time lost even using the Clements world taxonomy complete with subspecies. It will find species on very small fragments of their name. It is much prettier than any other programme I have seen. Wings and Avisys are very powerful, but nobody would accuse either of being pretty or intuitive.I will probably continue to use Journal for trips. It does have an export facility, so I can readily import into Wings. I wish Journal had an import facility.Oh, and it runs very well on a Mac in Win 7 under Parallels.Alan.</blockquote>

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