J-Bird version 0.4.2 (alpha)

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

This release fixes a serious bug in J-Bird 0.4.1 that was released just 2 days ago. If you installed J-Bird 0.4.1 and built a master species list, you should be able to upgrade to J-Bird 0.4.2 without difficulty.

New in J-Bird 0.4.1: 1) import of checklists from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files, and relational databases; 2) preferred checklists can be assigned to trips and to regions for use when ticking species that have been observed; 3) a search dialog for text in displayed tables; 4) a search dialog for species names in collapsable tables; 5) instructions for accessing the underlying database remotely or from Perl.

Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species ticks, and to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages, or CSV. Checklists can be created, used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and included in trip reports.