Has eBird changed something?

Judy Smith

Anyway, everything was supposed to be on Avilist 2025 now, I thought. But now I see there are many Clements 2022 sightings left over. (As you know, earlier I had reconciled Clements 2024 to Avilist 2025.)

So, I tried to reconcile the sightings to Avilist 2025. I wasn't having much luck. (I got stuck at Herring Gull. It wanted to change to European Herring Gull, but it should be American Herring Gull). So, I reconciled to Clements 2024 instead, thinking I could then convert to Avilist 2025. And it did it, in one fell swoop, even though that was not my intention.

But before I did that, I manually did the first thing on the list, reconciling from Clements 2022 to Avilist 2025. It was Muscovy Duck. And I might have done Ruddy Duck too. But now somehow I seem to have ended up reconciling Muscovy Duck to Ruddy Duck, according to the report. I don't want my Muscovy Duck sightings to say they are Ruddy Duck! But I still seem to have the Muscovy Duck sightings that I am supposed to have (3). I temporarily restored back to my pre-reconcile backup to confirm what the sightings should be.

So, what happened? Am I good? I am sending the report by email.

In the Reconcile window, Northern Yellow Warbler did show on the top, and there are many sightings to reconcile, but there is nothing in Probable choices below to reconcile it to. Why not?

Further confusion on Hooded Crow/Carrion Crow, but we will let that go for now.


Also, when I hit Reconcile for a spuh, I do not get a list in Probable Choices at the bottom. Do I have to manually add the spuh to the taxonomy? I thought it would do that automatically.

I updated BDV7.0V19 to v22 and found the procedure has changed. In the past, the update was initiated in BD in the Help, Check for Program Updates and subsequent popups.

With v22, I was directed to the BD downloads page and had to install it as if it was a new version of Birders Diary.

Was this your intention?

Regards, Al Borodayko

Cypress, CA

I have the annual everything that should auto renew, so I'm stumped.

It did let me upgrade to V.7, though.

I noticed with the recent updates, there is a folder titled "Attached Sighting - Documents". In the folder I find about 20 photos which don't belong to me. Are they yours's and why are they there? I never added photos in my Birder's Diary. I empty the folder but at each update, they return.

Regards, Al Borodayko

Cypress, CA

I just got back from a trip and started importing my eBird checklists. All entries have the time set to 00:00 instead of the Checklist start time in the When Seen column.

I'm on 7.0 build 10. The same import works correctly on 6.3. FYI, my mammal import from the BD app displays the recorded times.

Judy

I just ran another one, and the species were in alphabetical order, not taxonomic! Is there a setting I have set unintentionally? I don't see anything pertinent on the Reporting screen. (I am still running v6.3.)

Thanks!

I have been adding my latest sightings from my latest trip over the past few days. I finished adding the sightings and wanted to make a sightings report. I did so successfully using the "Sightings" tab. Then I decided to click on the "Trip Report" tab and was met with this error - 

I was afraid that Birder's Diary would close itself and I had not backed up my latest sightings. I chose to Exit and Backup. It seemed to work fine. I was using Version 7 Build 0.

I went back to my desktop to open BD again and it worked fine. Upon opening I saw that there is a new Build 7 so I elected to install that before I did anything else. I got it installed and then went to my desktop to open it and was met with this error - 

My husband suggested try opening with "Run as Administrator". I did and it opened up and seemed to be working. I continued to make some edits on my reports. I then wanted to check on some of my sightings with the "View/Edit Sightings" tab. I chose the particular species i wanted to view and up came all the sightings at various locations over the years. Then i noticed that every sighting regardless of location had the same date! I checked a few other species and each was the same - whatever date was entered for the first sighting was shown on every sighting. Thinking that this was possibly due to having been opened with Run as Admin, I closed BD and tried opening it again.

Now it will open using the desktop shortcut (not using "Run as Admin") and I click OK on the "Error with License Control" message, but if I test the View/Edit sightings again, all the dates for each entry are the same - so something is wrong!

What should I do?

Thank you,

Peggy