Nat, What you want is ClipBird, a free piece of software developed by Redshank Software in NC. This is a Windows (also available for Macs) program that puts up a checklist of birds. You can click to "check" off the birds seen. You can add a note after each species, e.g., to note how many seen, where, sex, age, etc. You can even filter the list of birds by the official state list (only a few states supported so far BUT TN is one of them) so you don't have to scroll down through all those Storm-Petrels. When you have entered all your birds, click on a button and the list is copied to the Windows clipboard and can then be pasted directly to the email message. You can download ClipBird (version 1.3 was just released) for FREE from the Redshank Software website at http://www.redshanksoftware.com/ Disclaimer time: I am not associated with Redshank Software but I do use ClipBird. Dean Edwards Knoxville, TN On Wed, 11 May 2005 thornius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am the world's laziest man, which got me to wondering, "Why not have a tool > for tn-bird, a checklist, if you will, where each time you make a report, you > could just enter the numbers of each species that you saw rather than typing > out the full name of each species and the numbers that you saw?" It could > have a function then of not entering all the names on the checklist, but only > the ones seen by the reporting person. It would save a lot of time for > everyone and might encourage more reporting. I also enter my reports on > e-Bird which uses a similar feature. > > Have Fun Storming the Castle! > > Nat Winston III > > Hermitage, TN > > thornius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2129198704 > > =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== > > The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with > first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. > ----------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------- > To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: > tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ----------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to: > tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society > Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) > endorse the views or opinions expressed > by the members of this discussion group. > > Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN > wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society > web site at http://www.tnbirds.org > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > ======================================================== > > > =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================