One of the next new features for Bird Journal is Import.
As always we want to make it really easy, and we want to make it capable of importing almost any birding records you may have.
In the Americas, eBird has made great progress in standardising birding data formats. This has lead to AviSys, Birdbase and Birder's Diary all supporting export to the eBird CSV format. We'll provide import from eBird Record format, and perhaps also eBird Checklist format.
But a lot of birders have records in Excel spreadsheets, and we'd like to be able to import from these too.
- Do you record sightings in Excel? How do you lay out your records? If possible please send us a sample, so we can try to make the import process as easy as possible.
- Would it be easy for you to convert your spreadsheets into a standard Bird Journal layout? Or would it be preferable to have a tool to auto-detect the layout of your spreadsheets?