Anyone still using Avisys for their birds?

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Anyone still using Avisys for their birds?

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There is a post about the end of Avisys support updates on Ebird as well as a primer on getting your data out of Avisys and into ebird.

http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/avisystoebird/

http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/a ... s-to-ebird

Highly recommended if you are still Avisys dependent. I switched over to Ebird about 5 years ago or so and have never looked back. The phone apps to get your data directly Ebird from the field are the icing on the cake!
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Yes, and not looking forward to it. I'll still probably use it for mammals and herps.
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It took me about 10 hours, but it's done. Not as bad as I thought, but matching all the locations was time consuming. I'm sure I will still have a few data reviewer emails to sort out.
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Yeah, I'm sure you are due for some emails. I am always glad to get them. I have had to remove a couple of birds from my lifelist based on their reviews, but I've also had them get me a new bird a couple of times.

Now that it is there, you can use the ebird apps to get your birds recorded faster. Hopefully the Android version will be up and running soon.
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I find ebird to be about a quarter as user friendly as Avisys. I've been trying to import my records in to Avibase, but it just keeps telling me my session has expired and that I have to log in again, instantly. Any thoughts?
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I don't know why avibase would be doing that. Weird. I didn't have any problem like that? Are you sure your ebird login info is correct in it?

Avibase is a bit strange to use, but when you get it figured out it can be pretty useful. I just used it to create a checklist for the Yucatan Peninsula showing me the lifers I can see there in the last week in June, 2016.
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I did eventually figure it out. I didn't realize you had to create the checklist before importing records, I figured it would just import all the records and use them the same way avisys did. I haven't had time to mess around with it yet, but it seems to have good potential.



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If you are still using Avisys, I see someone has done the Clements 2016 update for it.

http://avisys.faintlake.com/

Use at your own discretion. The guy who started Avisys died last year and the software was pretty much left in limbo. This update was done by a user.
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