Recording birds across Britain and Ireland Nick Moran
Tutorial #2 Exploring your records
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nce your records are in BirdTrack, they’re available for the ‘greater goods’ of monitoring, research, local report writing and much more. Whilst this may be ample motivation for some people to submit records, BirdTrack offers a range of exciting outputs that add an enormous amount of personal value to your records. The more records you have in the system, the more powerful it becomes for you. This tutorial looks at the Explore My Records tool, and highlights a selection of the outputs available. To really appreciate the benefits of this tool though, there is no substitute for entering some records, then having a go!
To the left of these tabs are a series of filters: Dates, Locations, Species and Project. The idea is that you set the filter – or filters – you want, click the ‘GO’ button, and the relevant selection of data is presented in the tabs. Here, in order to show my life list records, I’ve applied the most straightforward filter – viewing all of them as an example: 1. Click ‘Explore My Records’ on the Data Home page; 2. Click ‘GO’ in the ‘Dates’ filter on the left side of the page (the ‘Dates’ filter opens by default, and the ‘Select All Species’ radio button is automatically selected). …and that’s all there is to it!
Clicking the ‘Explore My Records’ link on the Data Home page (the page you see once logged in) takes you through to a blank set of ‘tabs’ in the middle of the page: Table, Map and Graph.
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Map
You can toggle between the Table, Graph and Map outputs by clicking the relevant tab at the top left of the screen.
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Graph
Summary stats are presented along the top of the ‘Table’ tab, showing your life list, number of records, number of Complete Lists and number of locations.
THE HARRIER – December 2012
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