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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMK" data-source="post: 3311460" data-attributes="member: 85596">Another point relevant to one of your queries. In My Birding, you have the option when creating a list (either of birds already seen or for example a field checklist for a forthcoming trip) to a region or country, to include or not to include vagrants. Nevertheless, even if you do opt to include, I confess I have noted discrepancies, i.e. known vagrants for a given country not appearing on a list, but at least when preparing a list for a trip or day's birding you will have the option within the software to manually add a species not on the list.Finally, one other comment about subspecies. If you only complete one list for a given trip, as I believe you mentioned that you do, then do note that the dropdown list I talked of above will only permit you to electronically add one subspecies per entry. If you observe multiple subspecies of the same species on a given trip (highly likely in countries with a complex biogeography or on trips where you cover a large geographical area), then you would need either to use a different modus operandi (e.g. prepare separate lists for each site that you visit) or to use the comments box for each species to note additional subspecific taxa that you observed. I believe that if you pursued the latter option that would mean that the system would be at least partially unable to modify your lists based on any changes to the system's taxonomy. That might or might not be a disadvantage?</blockquote>

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