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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMK" data-source="post: 3311452" data-attributes="member: 85596">Maffong,Provided that you can identify the subspecies involved (in the field I mean), which will be especially problematic and arguably sometimes impossible in cases where several subspecies might winter in the same general region, then you can indicate the taxon involved within the My Birding part of HBW Alive. This functionality has been available for quite some time already. When you click on a given species (in preparing a list) you will automatically have the option (for polytypic species) to add the subspecies involved based on a dropdown list (showing ranges as given in HBW). However, it is optional, i.e. you can create an entry for the species concerned whether or not you can or want to specify the subspecies that you (believe you) saw.If you do indicate a subspecies for all your records, then for passerines their taxonomy (and your lists) will be automatically updated after the publication of the second volume of the Lynx/BirdLife checklist.If you don't, then for all relevant species that are eventually affected by taxonomic changes in the just-mentioned work, My Birding will automatically assemble a list of (which species did you see?) queries for you, and you can modify entries manually (or not, depending on your predilection).There is a quite a lot of information concerning additional features that have recently been added to My Birding in the latest newsletter (<a href="http://www.hbw.com/sites/default/files/newsletter/HBW%20Alive%20Newsletter%20-%20No.%2017.html" target="_blank">http://www.hbw.com/sites/default/files/newsletter/HBW%20Alive%20Newsletter%20-%20No.%2017.html</a>).I am not at all familiar with the other systems that people have spoken about and, as I work for Lynx, I am to some extent biased, but personally speaking My Birding seems to be quite a powerful and attractive means of keeping bird records. I cannot, however, comment on how easy it is to adapt records created in another system to HBW's, irrespective of (obvious) taxonomic differences, although I believe the system can accept inputs from some of these already.</blockquote>

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