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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomjenner" data-source="post: 3193512" data-attributes="member: 8453">I've been trying e-bird, but with limited success. I started by making up a life list for Sudan, which was quite easy; I selected Khartoum (giving the Jan 1st 1900 date and hiding the list from view, as suggested) and most species appeared, and it was easy to add the few additional ones. However, I started trying to put in some data for Kenya, but quickly found that I couldn't select obvious locations, such as Lake Nakuru, or the Maasai Mara. I then tried to do a general one, by typing in the county, but the counties of Kenya are not recognised. I don't have GPS positions for all the sites I visited, so how do I go about putting in data for these locations?I can see that e-bird will be a great way of adding my data for more obscure sites, such as my regular birding sites around Sudan where I have GPS coordinates, and these are probably the most useful ones I will be adding. However, it doesn't seem to be a very good way of keeping a life list, as, for example, it will never give me a complete list of Kenyan birds but only a list for one small region - and then it will only be if I can find a location it accepts. Putting in all my site records for every trip I've made in the last 40+ years is just not going to be realistic, so I will need some software that will let me put in my lists country by country. Any further suggestions on the best option for this?Tom</blockquote>

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