J-Bird version 0.5.2 (alpha)

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

In version 0.5.2 keyboard navigation has been improved. Shortcuts and Mnemonics have been added, and keys can be used to cancel or commit most dialogs. The Windows installer can install Java on non-Vista versions of Windows. Both common and scientific names can be displayed when ticking species, editing checklists and on trip reports. Also, a few bugs have been fixed.

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. The master species list may be the Sibley-Monroe World list, the CINFO World list, the AOU Checklist of North American Birds or imported from a table. The master list, local checklists, and sightings can be imported from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files and from relational databases. Local checklists can be used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and they can be included in trip reports.