Bird ID by TapPoint® is birding software that acts like an expert companion to your favorite North American bird field guide book, providing both species identification by location, color, group and/or length, and a sightings recording database. Using a unique map-based species range database, Bird ID generates an automatic custom checklist of species expected at your exact geographical location. Unlike other checklist systems that generate a checklist at the state level, Bird ID's checklist will be smaller and more accurate, and therefore easier to work with. For example, the checklist for an inland location in California is quite different from a coastal location, as is a southern location vs. a northern location, mountain vs. valley, etc.

Use Bird ID before you start flipping pages in your field guide to save a significant amount of time identifying new species. Using a field guide alone, you typically guess on the bird's taxonomy group to find out where to start, then start flipping through pages looking at colors, then finally eliminate species after species via their range maps. Bird ID turns this process around and automates most of it, by first filtering all species based on their expected range, then allowing you to search by what you saw, such as colors or length, then referring you to the pages in your field guide for only those species that are close matches to your observations.

After identification, you can easily record your sightings in the Windows and/or Palm OS versions, where Bird ID will track your sightings by location, species and date, and track your progress against your custom checklists, as well as your "Life List" of all sightings.

Great Features for both Novice and Experienced Birders all in One Small and Simple Package:

* Automatically generates custom species checklists for your exact geographical location

* Includes species data for all 805 North American species, including full color range maps

* Identify species by location, month, group, length, and/or colors

* References page numbers in your favorite field guide book*

* Quickly lookup species by name

* Record and edit sightings with counts and text notes

* Define multiple geographical locations for your excursions, each with its own checklist and sightings list

* Master "Life List" tracks all of your sightings from all locations

* Full two-way synchronization of your sightings between Windows and Palm OS versions allows you to make and track sightings on either device.

Bird ID for Palm OS Includes all the features above plus:

* Full two-way synchronization of your sightings with Bird ID for Windows, allowing you to make and track sightings on either device

* Takes less than 500k of device memory, and no expansion cards or add-on programs needed!

Updated Description:

v1.3:

- adds visual fixes and security enhancements for Windows Vista.

v1.2:

- adds page numbers for the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America Fifth Edition, and the Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America.

v1.1:

- adds links to help and examples on the web to the Help menu of the Windows version.