Bird ID^™
Bird Identification and Sighting Recording

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.

Bird ID^™ for Windows

Bird ID^™ for Treo and Palm OS^®

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 Windows Includes all the features above plus:

Print custom checklists for any geographical location
Export custom checklists and sightings lists to other programs
Takes less than 2 MB of disk space and no CD required!

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!

See Examples of Bird ID for Windows in Action

See Examples of Bird ID for Palm OS in Action

Download Bird ID version 1.3 - May be used free for 7 days: (revision history)

	(XP/Vista*) - 1.4 MB
	(Palm OS 3.5 or later, including all Treo, Zire, and Tungsten models) - 470 KB
	(XP/Vista* with HotSync) - 1.9 MB

(*) The desktop version of Bird ID 1.3 is compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista. For earlier versions of Windows, download version 1.2 here. Macintosh users should download the Palm-only version.

Purchase a Bird ID Registration Code:

Buying one registration code allows a single user to use either or both of Bird ID for Windows and Bird ID for Palm OS beyond the free trial period.

$24.99 - Bird ID for Windows and/or Palm OS

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(**) Bird ID does not include bird pictures or drawings, but is designed to act as a companion to a field guide book that contains pictures as well as any detailed descriptions of behavior and habitat. Field guide books referenced by page number include:
    "The Sibley Guide to Birds", by David Allen Sibley, First Edition © 2000"
    "The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America", by David Allen Sibley, First Edition © 2003"
    "The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America", by David Allen Sibley, First Edition © 2003"
    "National Audubon Society Field Guide to Birds, Western Region", Second Edition © 1994"
    "National Audubon Society Field Guide to Birds, Eastern Region", Second Edition © 1994"
    "A Field Guide to Western Birds", by Roger Tory Peterson, Third Edition © 1990"
    "A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America", by Roger Tory Peterson, Fifth Edition © 2002"
    "National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America\", Fourth Edition © 2002"
    "National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America\", Fifth Edition © 2006"
    "Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America", by Kenn Kaufman, © 2000, Updated 2005

Species Range Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada – WILDSPACE. Range Data Compilation © 2005 NatureServe

Bird ID is a trademark of TapPoint, LLC.
TapPoint is a registered trademark of TapPoint, LLC.
Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc.

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