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Wildlife Recorder is our comprehensive records and lists keeping package. Several versions are available to cater for beginners to professional users. Wildlife Recorder and Wildlife Recorder Professional Comparison.

User Friendly and Flexible,

  • Enter your sightings in minutes. Using the keyboard or advanced speech recognition.
  • Automatically keep any number of life or year lists.
  • Analyse your data anyway you want.
  • Make Great Looking Trip reports.
  • Print your own Checklists for any part of the globe.
  • Analyse your data using spreadsheets and charts.
  • Find out what birds occur in any country of the world
  • Seamlessly integrate with handheld Android devices to provide a complete system which can be used at home or in the field.
  • Link to your digital photos, videos, sound clips and other media by using the Media Strip.

Features

  • Species
    Comes with a complete and up-to-date World Species database or optionally a local database (Western Palearctic or North American). The World version contains distribution information for all the countries of the World + states for large countries, 393 areas in total.
    Other databases available include World Mammals, World Reptiles, , World Dragonflies, European Butterflies, North American Butterflies, British Moths and British vascular plants.
  • Sightings
    Keeps comprehensive details about your sightings including unlimited free text notes.
    Sightings can be entered either in trip form, on a spreadsheet or using the bulk sightings entry facility which allows rapid entry in any sequence.
  • Locations
    Keeps details of all the geographic areas you have visited. The database provided contains all the countries of the World plus state names for larger countries. You may enter details of States, Counties and Sites. Sub-sites can be defined if required.
  • Observers
    Keep details of the observers who provided the sightings data.
  • Lists
    An unlimited number of lists can be kept automatically from the sightings you have entered. Any type of lists can be produced; country, state, county, site, faunal zone lists for areas defined by map references, ABA/AOU lists are all possible.
    Wildlife Recorder will automatically keep life lists and if required detailed year lists.
    Lists are automatically calculated from sightings data. and contain information about the species seen, first and last dates, early and late dates, total number of records etc..
  • Queries
    Flexible Queries allow you can pull up a list of sightings for a site, county, country or any of the data you have entered, you can even search your free form notes.
  • Comprehensive Reporting
    Wildlife Lister is provided with a comprehensive set of reports to print checklists, trip reports, lists etc. Reports can be output as  Adobe Acrobat document (PDF) or as a rich text file which can be edited using a word processor.
  • Checklist generator
    Allows you to produce your own checklists based the distribution areas provided with Wildlife Lister.
    Checklists can be can be output to the printer, as a web page (HTML), an Adobe Acrobat document (PDF) or as a rich text file which can be edited using a word processor.
  • Linking Images and other Media
    Allows you to easily link digital photographs, videos, sound clips and other media to species and your trips and sightings.
  • Import
    Sightings and geographic information can be imported from other systems.
    Conversion packages available for Birder's Diary 2.5, AviSys and BirdBase. Bird Recorder 32 data can also be transferred if required.
  • Export
    You can export you sightings data as a comma separated file in various formats including a suitable for for import into the eBird system.
  • Handheld device integration
    Full integration with Nature Lister allows you to export species and site lists to a device running the Android OS.
    On return from your trip the sites, trips and sightings are seamlessly imported into your Recorder database.
  • Help and Tutorials
    Complete on-line help and tutorials.
  • Backup
    Integral backup and restore utility will compress and save your data to ensure you never lose it due to PC or other failures.
  • Distribution Mapping
    Distribution mapping of sightings can be performed , kml output can be displayed in Google Eartg, Google Maps and other compatible software. 
  • Internet Research
    You can search various sites on the Internet for information about species directly from the WR species checklist.

Versions

Wildlife Recorder Western Palearctic and Nearctic (Birds Only) Edition

Wildlife Recorder Basic software with the following species databases:

  • Birds of the Western Palearctic and North America.

Wildlife Recorder Western Palearctic and Nearctic (Complete) Edition

Wildlife Recorder Basic software with the following species databases:

  • Birds of the Western Palearctic and North America.
  • European butterflies.
  • North American Butterflies.
  • British macro and micro moths.
  • British vascular plants.
  • Dragonfliesof the Western Palearctic and North America .
  • Mammals of the Western Palearctic and North America
  • Reptiles of the Western Palearctic and North America .

Wildlife Recorder World Edition (Birds Only) Edition

Wildlife Recorder Basic software with the following species database:

  • Birds of the world.

Wildlife Recorder World Edition (Complete) Edition

Wildlife Recorder Basic software with the following species databases:

  • Birds of the world.
  • European butterflies.
  • North American butterflies.
  • British macro and micro moths.
  • British vascular plants.
  • World dragonflies.
  • World mammals.
  • World Reptiles.

Wildlife Recorder Professional Standard Edition

Wildlife Recorder Professional software with the following species databases:

  • Birds of the Western Palearctic and North America.
  • European butterflies.
  • North American Butterflies.
  • British macro and micro moths.
  • British vascular plants.
  • Dragonfliesof the Western Palearctic and North America .
  • Mammals of the Western Palearctic and North America
  • Reptiles of the Western Palearctic and North America .

Wildlife Recorder Professional World Edition

Wildlife Recorder Professional software with the following species databases:

  • Birds of the world.
  • European butterflies.
  • North American butterflies.
  • British macro and micro moths.
  • British vascular plants.
  • World dragonflies.
  • World mammals.
  • World Reptiles.

Requirements

  • Windows Personal computer or Mac with Parallels or VMWare Fusion running a Windows virtual machine
  • Windows 10 or Windows 11
  • A hard disk with free space of at least 100mb (World edition).
  • Mouse or other pointing device.
  • Microphone (optional, required to use speech recognition).
  • Internet connection for updates and downloads.

Information

Wildlife Recorder 4 is a full re-write of the highly acclaimed database program from Jack Levene. It allows you to record your Trips all around the globe and instantly get information such as lists, queries, media and much more.

Along with Birds, you can also record mammals, moths, butterflies and much more.

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