J-Bird version 0.4.5 (alpha)

J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java.

New to this release: The master checklist builder has been converted from an AWT application to Swing. New data sources for the master checklist include dBase .dbf files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in web pages, and any relational database for which the user provides Java drivers and an SQL query. The CINFO list of World birds and the AOU list of North American birds can be imported as the master species list without modification. In J-Bird itself, a new hierarchy is available for displaying the tree of trips: year - region - trip.

Existing features: basic ticking; trip reports; ability to count species ticks; ability to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists and region lists; ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages, or CSV. Local checklists can be created or imported from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files and from relational databases. They can be used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and they can be included in trip reports.