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Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide (1.0)
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1. e Bird and converted to the Lynx BirdID e Date and Time e Place This information is placed is the Notes field of the tick to act as a reminder for you Due to controls and constraints it is not viable to put the Place information in the Location field 12 4 GPS Info Tap on GPS INFO to open up a screen that will show details obtained from the GPS if it is turned on The fields will be empty except for possibly the satellites fields until the GPS is able to get a fix The detail included are gt Latitude Dec This is the Latitude value of your current location in Decimal Degrees GPS INFORMATION Format Negative means south of the PESANAN eq uator Latitude North South Dec 24 374987 Longitude East West Dec 30 944211 gt Longitude Dec This is the Longitude value Latitude North SouthXDMS 24 22 29 95162 of your current location in Decimal Degrees Longitude East West DMS 30 56 39 15889 Format Negative means west of the meridian Altitude Above sea level m 553 i i i mk 50 0 Speed km hk 14 gt Latitude DMS Latitude of your current T position in Degrees Minutes Seconds ABAP2 Pentad 2420 3055 format Satellites 9 21 true 144 23 12 18 true 78 46 5 Used in Fix 18 24 true 69 83 gt Longitude DMS Longitude of your current Meh ean nea aA te R 25 4 false 24 41 5 position in Degrees Minutes Seconds ries format gt Altitude m Your current
2. Dy Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 1 Table of Contents 2 MFO OUICTION ecinscapsceveeadeecisancacssevasudiscetdesseincanstaeensedts 2 rae Be FPO criss tate cateranesansonenesceenent annacctusmerd aavernsuea 2 T s4 09 30 A 2 alg 6 0 ecse EO 3 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa 5 Welcome Ser n eee 4 O Main TEEN sarean 5 x Budi eL MOB ee 5 iela CA TER e E A 5 QuickStart Gas aS SCF O MMiedeccstetvtntcoatteesssosacausensteansuateteteanticeenees 5 6 4 Smart SearCh sssssssesressrrrsrrreerrrerrrssrresrresrrree 5 Te BIrGID Oene 6 8 Makea Tick Ge 7 A POT Kon A E A EE 7 1O MEM EE E 9 WOL U Ere A EE 10 O Taa cSanaeeceooteestecsa esas 11 103 REGION as cicvccteccanvis naa 11 10 4 LocatiOn ssssssssessesseseerrereerrsnrsresressssnesresrseress 12 IOS O e E EE 13 E U AR 14 EL FITER ee 15 Cs gt 9 6 enen 16 2 AI OS ea E E E G 18 L BUD enan E 18 x T Ro 0 ee 18 E 123 IMDORRI 19 3 KA dW RG ks dl O n 20 j 12 5 Use GPS onneen 21 eal Show at 12 6 Show Startup Screen ccccccecsessessesssseseeeeesees 21 Me oe ee 12 7 Auto Backup on EXxit ccccsseseseseresavereraveres 22 12 8 Allow Duplicate Ticks for Location SABAP2 22 12 9 Set volume of Warning Sound 0800e 22 13 SABAPZ Wap DIN sivscessncsdcnutiadecanidusewiutieansanetesnceses 23 13 1 Start a NEW SABAPZ2 SeSSION 2cceeeeeeeees 23 13 2 Adding Ticks to the SABAP session
3. 25 13 3 Stopping a SABAP SESSION cccecceeceeeeeeeees 25 13 4 Continue with a SABAP sesSiON 00000 25 13 5 Submit SABAP2 Card ccccccessecceeeseeeeeeeeeeees 26 13 6 Delete SABAP2 Card cccccceeeccseseseeeeeeeeeeeens 27 13 7 Delete a tick from SABAP2 card 0666 27 13 8 Edit SABAP2 Card detail eessen 27 13 9 Adding OLD SABAP2 Cards ccsccceesseeeees 28 13 10 Moving between pentads cccccceeeseeeeeees 28 13 11 SABAP2 Incidentals ccccesecceeeseeeeeeeeeeens 30 13 11 1 Individual Tick cc ceeccceeeceeeeeseeeeeees 30 13 112 Batch Ol TICKS ctssvescavevcosseersenpersvesecatsnceres 31 DA PEEP E E 32 Page 1 Oy Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 2 Introduction Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa is a program that helps you to record bird sightings maintain and manage sightings lists in an easy and efficient way This program does not help with bird identification It works on the presumption that the bird has already been identified and then keeps track of the sighting record The main impetus for this program is to make logging your bird sightings ticks easy and quick it only takes 1 long tap to complete a basic tick but also to enables you to maintain a detailed record of each sighting Several features are built into the program to facilitate this e g Quick tick Tick Edit while making the tick or later Smart Searc
4. If you select STOP it will be the same as descried above If you select SWITCH the program will stop the session on the card for the old pentad and open the card for the current pentad You will notice that the info bar now shows the new card and its totals and elapsed time Just continue now on the switched card If you are not busy with a mapping session just doing normal birding and you move into a pentad WARNING that has an open card available and your GPS is aa ae a on the program will prompt you with a warning 2420_3055 Do you want to continue mapping on card and give you the option to continue on the card Hoedspruit 2012 10 12 available If you choose so the program will then CONTINUE MAP continue with the card and you can add more ticks to it IMPORTANT The GPS is turned off automatically by Android when the device goes to sleep Therefor the program will not be able to detect movement in and out of Page 29 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 pentads while the device is asleep If the device wakes up and you did move in or out of pentads as above you will get a warning but your elapsed times may not be accurate If you travel around during mapping and there is a possibility that you may leave the pentad you should make sure the device does not go to sleep or wake it up frequently 13 11 SABAP2 Incidentals Lynx BirdTicks enables you to submit incidentals to SABAP2 with ea
5. follow the instructions in 8 While SABAP mapping is running the Info Bar 37 MAP Hoedsprult 2012 10 12 02 24 34 on the top of the screen shows the following nter Search Search Ticks for current SABAP session Card o l e African Green Pigeon Description and Elapsed Time hh mm ss The l African Grey Hornbill elapsed time is only updated about every 5 African Harrier Hawk seconds Just continue to make ticks as usual You don t have to do anything different while mapping is running The program will automatically take care of the sequence hourly totals and other things required for SABAPs Birds already ticked on this SABAP2 card will show up in the main list with a green dot next to it The program keeps track of the elapsed time continuously while mapping and will give a warning with sound after every hour is completed i gt wil 11 10 E 0 MAP Hoedspruit 2012 10 24 03 49 52 13 3 Stopping a SABAP session PE r To stop the SABAP session go to the SABAP Status Running 13 4 screen MENU gt UTILITIES gt SABAP MAPPING and ae Hoedspruit 2012 10 24 tap STOP This will stop the session timer and add the buttons CONTINUE and SUBMIT at the bottom of the screen It will also show the Pentad 2420 3055 Hoedspruit Started Date 2012 10 24 Time 08 10 Completed Ended Date 2012 10 24 Hours Status as Off and an arrow on the right side of the Card Number will indic
6. Info parts of the program so you don t have to do it here You can first make the tick then later go back to edit the information Page 7 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 The data entry panel is probably longer than the screen of the device so remember to scroll the screen Seann up and down to show more information White bellied Sunbird Tapping on the info for Bird User Trip Location and lenennss Region will open a popup from which you can select a general different item These are all pre set values that you ion Home RV143 can change or add See later sections of the manual for on South Africa descriptions on how to do this Click on the new item l 20124024 Time a00 in the popup list to select it n Click on the Date to change the date this is necessary to add old ticks to your list Lat 24 374938 Lon 30 944047 Seen Male Caie fem juv Click on the Notes area to add or change the notes x xd The notes can be used for anything you want to add to OoOo CANCEL the sighting for example if you want to record how many males females and juveniles of Click on the Time to change the time if necessary Southern Ground Hornbills you saw it can be entered here or the name of the hide etc In the activity box you can enter some information about what the birds did for example Sitting on nest or Eating fruit on Jackalberry tree etc 9 U Enter c
7. Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 the card has been submitted and will not allow you to continue adding ticks to that card You should get your confirmation from SABAP2 within a few minutes and be able to see the card on the SABAP2 website If for some unforeseen reason the email was sent but the SABAP2 website does not show the data you can re submit the card Please wait at least 24 hours sometimes it takes a while for the emails to go through and the data added to the SABAP2 website If in doubt contact SABAP2 before you re submit a card If there was an error you will get a pop up notice If this happens wait a while to get a better connection and submit again If problems with submission persist please contact support support lynxnature com 13 6 Delete SABAP2 Card You can delete a SABAP2 card as follows Select the card to be deleted from the card pick list on WARNING the SABAP2 Screen Tap DEL A popup will DELETE SABAP2 CARD appear asking if you want to delete just the card Hoedspruit 2012 10 12 There are 37 Ticks on this card DELETE CARD OR CARD AND ALI you tap CARD the card detail will be removed HICKS FOR THE CARD info or the card and all the ticks on the card If from the database but the ticks will not be CARD CARD Ticks CANCEL deleted You will not be able to select this card in ss the future from the ticklist filter Selecting CARD TICKS will delete the card
8. and enter the new name All the ticks associated with the old name will be To change a Location s name long tap on it select changed to the new name To MOVE a Location to a different parent take note of the exact name of the location to be moved Find the location you want to be the new parent Long tap on this and select ADD Tzaneen ADD not EDIT Enter the exact name of the location to be moved Select CHILD You will get AS TOP LEVEE LOCAGOR OF Child of Lowveld a warning that the location already exist and that it will be moved to a child of the selected parent tore como BUILD As with other defaults you cannot delete a location with active ticks so you have to change these in the tick list or delete the ticks before you can delete a location The location is used by eBird so if you plan to submit data to them you should pay close attention to their requirements when setting up locations 10 5 Sort Tap on Sort to open up a list of available sort options The options are SELECT SORT ORDER gt Common Name This is the common English Common Name name of the bird as used in the region e g Bearded Vulture gt Type Name This is the same as the common English name but the type of bird is placed first e g Vulture Bearded This is handy as it groups all of the same type of birds together e g all the Vultures will be grouped together Page 13 Lyn
9. elevation above sea level in meters Page 20 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 gt Accuracy m The accuracy of your current location as determined by the GPS sensor in meters This is dependent on the number of satellites and signal strength and the sensor sensitivity gt Speed km h This is the approximate speed as reported by the GPS gt SABAP2 Pentad This is the SABAP2 pentad code for the pentad that you are currently in gt Satellites The number of GPS satellites that the GPS sensor can detect gt Used in Fix The number of satellites used by the GPS to determine the location If this number is O the GPS does not have a fix for the current position gt Satellites Panel A list of satellites currently sensed by the GPS Sensor no real practical use but is interesting to see Tap OK to close this screen 12 5 Use GPS Check or Uncheck this option to use the GPS for coordinate setting of ticks as preferred You can turn this on or off at any time IMPORTANT There are two places that determine the use of the GPS One is in the program MENU gt UTILITIEST gt UseGPS and the other is in the device settings DEVICE MENU gt SETTING gt LOCATION SERVICES gt USE GPS SATELLITES If UseGPS is turned off unchecked in the program the program will not attempt to use the GPS and will leave the latitude and longitude fields for the ticks blank regardless if the GPS on the device is turned o
10. gt UNCHECK USE GPS Since you will not be making live ticks it will be incorrect to have the GPS on during this process Add a new card MENU gt SABAP2 gt NEW Enter the pentad code and description as shown earlier and tap OK Add the ticks IN THE SEQUENCE SEEN It is important to add the ticks in the sequence seen as this is the sequence that will be submitted You cannot change the sequence later Don t worry about the timing of the ticks we will fix the totals later You should edit each tick to make sure the date is correct it should be the same date as the card The tick date is not used in SABAP2 submissions only the card s date so correcting the tick date is merely to keep all your tick data accurate Stop the card MENU gt SABAP2 gt STOP Edit the card detail Make sure all the critical fields for the card is correct The fields you should edit and correct are the Start Date Start Time End Date Completed Hours and Hourly Totals These should be done in the same manner as you would for the normal SABAP2 card completion Tap SAVE Now you can submit the card 13 10 Moving between pentads Lynx Birdticks utilize the GPS coordinates to keep track of your position The following features will not be available if you do not use the GPS Page 28 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 If you are busy with a SABAP2 card and you leave the selected pentad the program will sound a WARNI
11. shown in the main list but it is due to different naming conventions of different organizations FILE SAVED When the files have been exported you will get a notification of the export and the folder and List saved as A r ricklist std 20121012 0703 c v in filename under which it was saved The files are Seis cin AMARRA ynxBirdTicks located in folder sdcard LynxBirdTicks socal ates ical SouthernAfrica Ticklist The file will be named kf Ticklist_std_ or Ticklist_eBird_ followed by the date yyyymmdd and time hhmm and scv The typical filename will be Ticklist_std_ 20120705 0952 csv After the file is saved you will have the option to email this file to any email address Getting the file as an email attachment makes it a lot easier to open it in Excel or another Fa SEND FILE VIA EMAIL program without having to locate it on your device and move it over to a PC The last used Do you want to email the file email address if available will show up as default Use this or type in a different email address to send the email to Page 17 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 12 Utilities Tap on Utilities on the main menu to open the utilities screen UITILITES UTILITIES Tap OK or the unit s Escape button to close the BACKUP Utilities Screen ia 12 1 Backup IMPORT Tap Backup to make a backup of all the data GPS INFO This a
12. with a default value of January 1 of the current year This will allow you to quickly set the filter to the current year to find your ticks for the year to date Change the date to whatever you want and tap OK Tapping on Date To will open up a date selection window with a default value of today s date Change the date to whatever you want and tap OK Note that both dates are inclusive Setting the Date From to 2012 07 01 and Date To to 2012 07 04 will show all the ticks made on July 1 July 2 July 3 and July 4 To find the ticks made on a specific day set both the Date From and Date To fields to the required day A Long tap on a date field will reset it to AI Selecting All Ticks in the Show Birds option will show all the ticks for the filtered criteria Selecting Unique Ticks will filter out duplicate bird ticks and show only the first tick made for each bird Select the Sort Order for the list The options are e Ticks Descending order in which the ticks were made last ticks made on top e Ticks Ascending order in which the ticks were made first ticks made on top e Date Descending order by tick date newest ticks on top e Date Ascending order by tick date oldest ticks on top e Bird Name Ascending order by bird name alphabetical ascending Tap OK to apply the criteria and generate the tick list Export To export the list that is current
13. DESCRIPTION A message will now open up showing the detail 1 j sl OMN Iaracters wiii pe Hoedspruit for the mapping session The start date and start time is taken as the current values from the system It is therefore important to create a new SABAP mapping session when you are ready to actually start the session Review the information and tap OK to start the session or tap CANCEL START SABAP MAPPING to cancel it WITH Tapping START will start the session and return ce poa Henn say you to the SABAP screen This will now show the Pentad Code 2420 3055 relevant information for the current session and adeapsincags hy s the status will show Running Note that the seth oll eta elapsed time will only update about every 5 CANCEL seconds this is to save some system resources but still making the time progression visible The program creates the appropriate card number per SABAP2 specifications This consists of the Pentad code the user number and the start date with _ between them The program also creates a card description comprising of the pentad description and the card start date This description is used throughout the program as the card identifier Page 24 13 2 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 You are now ready to make some ticks Tap OK to return to the main screen and add ticks to the card Adding Ticks to the SABAP session To add ticks
14. NG warning and pop up a warning telling you that You have moved out of pentad you have left the selected pentad The program 2420_3055 Hoedspruit 2012 10 12 VO you want to stop mapping this will determine if you have an open card available pentad for the pentad you have just moved into current pentad If there isn t one available the program IGNORE will give you the option to STOP the card or IGNORE If you tap STOP the program will automatically stop the current mapping session and put the system back in normal birding mode If you choose IGNORE the mapping session will continue If ke a tick whil r f th you try to make a tic e you are out of the WARNING selected pentad you will get a warning in that regard You can select to make the tick or cancel You have moved out of pentad 2420 3050 Zandspruit 2012 10 28 If you make the tick it will be associated with the Do you want fo stop mapping pentad 2420_3050 Zandspruit 2012 10 28 card even though the coordinates falls outside of the pentad This is necessary to allow you to add a tick to the card is you are on the other side of s i it and switch to mapping WOLA the fence but the bird is inside the pentad 2420 3035 Hoedsprul 2012 10 24 If there is an open card available for the pentad J IGNORE you just moved into the program will give you the options STOP SWITCH and IGNORE
15. ON Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng Kwazulu Natal Limpopo South Africa Mpumalanga outh Africa North West South Africa Northern Cape Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 10 4 Location The location is used as a specific indicator for birds ticked in a specific location You have full control over the contents of the Location list and can add change or delete as you wish The Locations are of a cascading nature This means that you can define locations within locations Doing it this way enables you to have a lot of versatility for generating different tick lists A typical example of using the cascading Locations are as follows First define a region e g Lowveld as a top level location Within this region can then define several Cities as children of Lowveld such as Hoedspruit Tzaneen etc Then within the City say Hoedspruit define one or more Suburbs e g Raptors View and within that Home and other specific locations e g Osprey Dam Setting up locations in this way allows you to extract ticklists for any location The ticklist generated will signa rendnt also include ticks from all the children and grandchildren etc So making a tick list for Hoedspruit will include all ticks with locations of Unspecified tt tt Hoedspruit Raptors View Home and NEA to hal Ea fo Select it or Delete Osprey Da
16. a button SUB EXP requirements of SABAP2 and may be submitted as incidentals Do you Tap this button to submit all the ticks in the list as want to submit this data to SABAP2 or export the data incidentals in one batch or export the ticks in the list see 11 2 A warning will pop up where you SUBMIT CANCEL l SABAP2 EXPORT SUBMIT SABAP2 and confirm on the next popup A message will show that the can select to submit the ticks or export them Tap data are being submitted followed by another message when the submission was successful or not If not successful try again later submission errors are mostly due to connectivity problems Once the ticks are submitted successfully each one is marked as submitted and cannot be submitted again You do not receive confirmation emails from SABAP2 for the submission of incidentals but they will show up on your data in the SABAP2 website in a few minutes Page 31 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 14 HELP Tap HELP from the main menu to open up the help screen This will show the program detail about buttons for a number of help items COMPLETE USER GUIDE will open the user guide This is in pdf format and your system must have a pdf Prog m Ly xBirdTicks Southern Africa reader installed to show the context If you have more persion Version 1 0 tia than one you may be presented with a pop
17. a is used for many research and f f Card Hoedspruit 2012 10 24 Open Y other functions and includes the establishment of ar distribution ranges based on real data collection This f Pentad 24203055 Hoedspruit program helps you to make the data collection and Started Date 2012 10 24 Time 08 10 submission as simple and easy as possible Ended Date 2012 10 24 COMPIeted 3 If you are not familiar with SABAP2 mapping please Elapsed Tene am F i Cumulative Total Ticks After Hour visit the website www http sabap2 adu org za to find 35 234 337 446 5 out more it is free to join and a lot of fun especially 6 7 8 9 10 if you use this Lynx program for your mapping All Habitats Covered Nights Included Tap on SABAP2 MAPPING on the Utilities Screen to Card Status Open open the SABAP2 Mapping screen This is the basis from where all SABAP2 mapping functions are done The SABAP2 screen will open up with the detail of the last used SABAP2 card If there have not been any cards created yet all the fields will be blank and the only options you will have are NEW and OK The first line shows the SABAP2 Status This will be Off or Running Off means that SABAP2 Mapping is not currently running The rest of the fields are better dealt with showing actual data in later sections Rather than describing the screens this manual will take you through the steps to set up a
18. a list of all the ticks that have been made for the bird Each row has two lines The top line shows the date and time of the tick followed by the trip The bottom line shows the location and the SABAP2 card on which the tick was made if present Tap on an item in the list to open up the Tick Edit Screen where you can see all the tick s information and edit the detail Make a Tick Once the bird is located on the main screen simply make a long tap tap and hold on the bird in the list The program gathers information from the system and A rN defaults and presents you with the option to accept WITH THE FOLLOWING these OK change information EDIT or CANCEL BIRD Bearded Woodpecker USER David If are busy with a SABAP2 map the SABAP2 card ct foes gt 06 22 KNP REGION South Africa LOCATION Kruger NP North DATE 2012 07 04 Tap OK to make the tick with the default values TIME 10 28 Latitude 24 374925 description will also be shown That s all you have to do Longitude 30 944034 If you want to change some things or add comments or other detail tap on EDIT to open up the Tick Edit Screen See section 8 2 for detail about this If you don t want to make a tick just tap Cancel Edit Tick If you tap on EDIT a screen will open where you can change or add all the items of the tick Note that you can also edit tick information from the TickList or Bird
19. am itself leaving you in total control of the GPS system Alternatively select DON T USE GPS to prevent the program from using the GPS sensor to get location coordinates This can also be turned on or off in the Utilities area see 11 5 The program will check if your bird list is current if you are on line If there has been an update to the list you will get a message asking if you want to update it now or later If you choose UPDATE LATER the program will ask you again the next time you start the program Page 4 oO il 09 30 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa QuickStart 4 Show at re startup i GPS NOT ENABLED _ ENABLEGPS DON T USE GPS NOTICE An update to the Bird List is available You can update it now or later If you choose later you will be asked again when the program restart the next time UPDATE NOW UPDATE LATER Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 6 Main Screen The main screen shows alist of the available birds in wl amp 10 52 the order that is selected Initially this will be by common name but you can select from various 176 112 80 General Home RV143 options see Sort Options later In addition to this it f african Darter also gives a lot of other information African Dusky Flycatcher 6 1 6 2 6 3 African Emerald Cuckoo Info Bar African Finfoot The top Info Bar shows the followi
20. ate that you can Elapsed Time 03 49 52 Total Ticks 0 Cumulative Total Ticks After Hour 1 225 2 34 3 37 4 choose a different card Tap OK to return to the main screen for normal a birding All Habitats Covered Nights Included Card Status Running Continue with a SABAP session Opening the SABAP screen while stopped will show the data of the last card or none depending on your previous actions Select a SABAP2 card from the pick list The cards in the pick list will show each card s status Open indicates that the card can be continued it has started less Page 25 13 5 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 than 5 days ago and have not been submitted Closed indicates that the card was started more l a l SABAP2 MAPPING than 5 days ago and not submitted Submitted on indicates that the card has been submitted Card Hoedspruit 2012 10 24 Open Only Open cards can be continued You will be Pentad 2420 3055 Hoedspruit presented with a button to CONTINUE Tap Started Date AMAIGA Tenet CONTINUE to continue with the session This will run the card again and continue with the Completed Ended Date 2012 10 24 Hours 3 Elapsed Time 03 49 52 TotalTicks 46 elapsed time from where the card was previously Cumulative Total Ticks After Hour stopped 1 25 2 34 3 37 4 46 6 7 8 9 10 Submit SABAP2 card m All Ha
21. ber first name and last name If available enter the information and tap OK on each screen If SABAP information is not available leave the fields empty or tap CANCEL on each screen To edit change the selected user tap Edit and enter the new name for the user This will update all the ticks in the tick list from the old name to the new name as well You will initially be presented with a user called User1 Simply Edit this and put your own name or whatever you want to call the user here Three input dialogs will then open asking for your SABAP user number first name and last name If available enter the information and tap OK on each screen If SABAP information is not available leave the fields empty or tap CANCEL on each screen Make sure that the number first name and last name are exactly the same as in your SABAP registration Note that the number must contain 6 digits If your number has less than 6 add 0 zero in front of the number This information is later used in SABAP data submissions To delete the selected user tap Delete The program will not allow you to delete a user with active ticks in the tick list You will have to change the user in these ticks or delete these ticks before you can delete a user Page 10 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 10 2 Trip 10 3 The reason for using trips is to enable you to keep track of ticks during a spe
22. bitats Covered Nights Included Once a SABAP2 mapping session is completed f Card Status Open stop it The screen will show all the session s i information Check All Habitats Covered and or Nights Included as appropriate Tap SUBMIT You will be asked to confirm the aes SABAP2 CARD WILL BE submission If the total hours are less than 2 the SGRATTTED beg card will automatically be submitted as an AD TYPE FULL PROTOCOL HAC card Review the information on the popup CARD Hoedspruit 2012 10 12 lt L pegsp EU Id carefully and tap OK to submit CARDNUM en PENTAD 2420 3055 You will now see a popup showing the observer PENTAD DESCR Hoedspruit code of the user and you may add additional DATI STARTED 5012 10 12 observers for the card Tap ADD to add another Ataf bald fetes TOTAL HOURS 2 observer and OK when done That s it you re done Note you must have an CANCEL internet connection when you submit a SABAP card This can be a data connection via a cellular connection or WiFi The data sent is typically less OBSERVERS LISTED FOR CARD than 20 KB so it will not cost a fortune to submit 013086 via cellular connection Once the data submission is completed successfully a message will pop up Depending on your connection speed this may take a little while but should never be too long The program will now show that Page 26 D Lynx BirdTicks
23. cific trip You do not have to do this if you don t want to The default trip of General can be used throughout if you wish but find it interesting to see how many and what birds were observed during a specific trip The procedure for selecting adding editing or deleting a trip is the same as for a user When you add atrip the program will automatically add the current date YYMMDD for the trip name You can add a further description to this or delete the date and simply add the description you like like to keep track of my trips with the date and a short description e g 120705 Kruger NP but it is entirely up to you how you describe the trips Region When you tap Region in the menu the program will present a list of all the countries in Southern Africa and regions or provinces inside the countries For South Africa it shows all the provinces You can select either the country or a sub region as you prefer It will be handy later on for tick analysis to have the sub regions for filtering so you can see how many and what birds did you see in Limpopo for example The regions used are as recommended by eBird for submission The Regions list is pre defined and cannot be changed deleted or added Page 11 ENTER NEW TRIP NAME 121005 qwertyuiop asadfignhyj ki t zx cvbnm 7123 8 Done SS e gt a amp 10 34 141 101 David 2012 06 22 KNP Kruger NP SELECT REGI
24. ck as Unsubmittable Tap SUBMIT TICK and confirm on the next popup to submit the tick A message will show that the data are being Page 30 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 submitted followed by another message when the submission was successful or not If not successful try again later submission errors are mostly due to connectivity problems SUBMIT TICK TO SABAP2 AS INCIDENTAL Once a tick is submitted successfully it is marked as submitted and cannot be submitted again Bird African Black Swift You do not receive confirmation emails from Date 2012 10 12 SABAP2 for the submission of incidentals but super PP erem they will show up on your data in the SABAP2 TICK UNSUBMI website in a few minutes You can mark any Submittable tick as unsubmittable This may be necessary if you want to use batch submissions and don t want a specific tick to show up in that list e g an old tick that you have added to the list that has previously been submitted You will be asked to confirm this action since marking a tick as unsubmittable cannot be undone 13 11 2 Batch of Ticks You can submit a batch of incidentals at once to SABAP2 The procedure to do this is as follows Open the ticklist with the quickfilter SABAP2 INCID SUBMITTABLE This will list all the WARNING submittable tick for the current user At the The data you in the list meets the bottom of the screen will be
25. create a trip Imported or something like that to keep the imported ticks separate from the rest It might also be a good idea to use a location such as Unspecified for this 5 BACKUP Backup your data MENU gt UTILITIES gt BACKUP just to make sure you can easily restore your data should something go wrong during the import 6 Import your data MENU gt UTILITIES gt IMPORT Confirm when asked to IMPORT If you get a warning at this stage there is something wrong with the file not in the correct folder or not the correct name If this happens go back to step 2 7 When finished you will get a notice with how many ticks were imported and how many could not be imported If any ticks could not be imported a file import err with the details of all of them is saved in the same folder as above mnt sdcard LynxBirdTicks SouthernAfrica Import You will now have the option to email this file to any email address 8 To access this file copy it to a location on your pc or open it from the email attachment Open Excel Open this file as is with FILE gt OPEN The Text Import Page 19 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 Wizard will open Make sure Delimited is selected in the original data type box Click Next gt In Delimiters make sure Comma is checked Click Finish NOTE The imported Ticks will be added to your list Existing ticks in Lynx will not be affected The following information is imported
26. ction for more information on this The information following information is only required if you plan to submit the tick to eBird Select the appropriate Protocol The options available are Casual Stationary Traveling and Area For most normal birding Casual is fine You can find more information about the protocol on the eBird website Enter how long the observation endured in the Duration box Enter the total number of minutes here e g 1 5 hours should be entered as 90 This is a requirement of the eBird format if you plan to send them information The number of observers show how many people made this observation Check All Observations Reported if this is needed for your eBird submission If your protocol is Traveling you must enter the distance traveled Enter the distance in km The program will convert this into miles when you export the list into eBird format If your protocol is Area you must enter the area covered Enter the Area in Hectares The program will _ DEFAULTS AND MENU convert this into Acres when you export the list into eBird format USER Johannes Tap OK to accept all the values and make the tick or TRIP General CANCEL to cancel the tick LOCATION Home RV143 REGION South Africa Limpopo Menu SORT Common Name Tap the device s Menu button usually on the left ae L bottom of the phone to open up the program s ma
27. ction will make a backup of the Tick list Ea ise GPS User list Trip list Location List Current list i EA Show Startup Screen SABAP2 cards SABAP2 Pentads and User preferences Auto Backup On Exit Allow Duplicate Ticks For Location SABAP2 The backup will overwrite the previous backup Always wam Never o Set Volume of Warning Sound The backups are stores on your unit in the folder cu a Test sdcard LynxBirdTicks SouthernAfrica Backup To make a more secure backup copy all the files in this folder over to your computer Once that backup files have been saved you will have the opportunity to send the backup files as SECURE BACKUP attachments to any email address This is a good DO YOU want to send these bar kup Mes as email attachments way to make a secure backup to keep on your PC or web email The last used email address if available will show up as default Use this or type Loe in a different email address to send the email to 12 2 Restore Tap RESTORE to restore the data to the last backup made Be careful when you do this because this will overwrite any data you have added since the last backup and may result in a loss of ticks and other customizations A handy way to use this is when you want to simply play around with the program Make a backup of your real data Then play around to your heart s delight make ticks see what happens delete ticks change trip nam
28. e able to find any bird in a short list after typing only 3 or 4 characters Page 5 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 Tap OK to close the keyboard The button will change Wifi wl 10 27 to Show All Tap on Show All to clear the filter ancl Eada ae cereal bile iaaliaiian show all the birds again It is not necessary to do this bat OK before a tick is made you can make a tick from the Atlantic Yellow nosed Albatross screen while the keyboard is open with a long tap Bat Hawk Bateleur Using the BackSpace key will remove characters and Black browed Albatross redo the filter A quick way to find different birds is to n n Buller s Albatross leave the keyboard open use BackSpace to clear the Cape Batis filter completely and type in new characters to find a different bird qwe rt yui o p The keyboard can also be closed with the device s asdfghjk i Escape key usually right bottom of phone You still have to tap Show All to reset the filter and show all t zxcvbnm e the birds in the list 2123 amp _ Next 7 Bird Info A short tap on a bird in the list will open up the bird information screen The screen is divided in two sections the top shows the basic information for the bird and the bottom shows a list of ticks that have been made for that bird Although the program is not destined to help with bird identification it nev
29. een Here you can select the criteria for the tick list you want It is important to understand that the filtering method uses AND for all the options In other words selecting User1 from users and General from trips will only show the ticks that contain the user User1 AND the trip General This is the same for all filter criteria Tap OK to accept the fields and create the list SET FILTER FOR TICKLIST TICKLIST FILTER All If nothing shows in the list there is no tick that meets all of the criteria Tapping on FILTER again from the Tick List the All previous filter values will come up and you can Location All change them as needed Region All Tap RESET ALL to reset all the filter values This x will show all the ticks in the list ow All Any Tap CANCEL to cancel the filter operation and i A Any return to the Tick List All Tap on an arrow to open up alist of available irds All Ticks options for the specific item Scroll to the item Ticks Desc Last ticks o you want and tap on it to select it Note that the locations list will be an indented Page 15 11 2 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 list based on the parents and children If you select a location that has children the selected location its children grandchildren etc will all be included in the list Tapping on Date From will open up a date selection window
30. ertheless gives some basic al amp 17 10 BIRD INFO information about the bird such as shown in this LE SE EW screenshot Due to name changes and other factors Common Name White bellied Sunbird some birds are also known by other names Where Scientific Name Cinnyris talatala A PASSERIFORMES available this screen will give alternate English names Nectariniidae alternate scientific names the official IOC Family Engiishy Sunbirds International Ornithological Committee Name as well rie ectarinia talatala as Clements English and Scientific Names The m Witpenssuikerbekkie Clements name is used for eBird lists Pa eA busz iamh Netendemic x ew cr ew wir IOC Name It also indicates if the bird is Resident Vagrant a White bellied Sunbird Breeding Migrant or a Non breeding Migrant intimidate Mees lak Total Ticks for Bird 5 ae 7 map 012 10 24 18 00 General The endemic status is indicated as Endemic 100 of 2012 09 19 12 19 120917 Kruger population is found in the region Near endemic at 012 07 22 10 07 General least 70 of population is found in the region or Home Ri Page 6 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 9 Non endemic not specific to the region The IUCN status is shown graphically The top section can be scrolled to show more information such as field guide reference page numbers The bottom sections shows
31. es etc Then when you re done just restore the original data Be careful not to exit the program during this time if you have checked Auto Backup on Exit Page 18 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 12 3 Import The program can import your bird list from Roberts Multimedia Due to several system constraints it is important to follow these instructions EXACTLY in order to successfully import ticks from Roberts to Lynx BirdTicks Due to various reasons some ticks may not be imported A list of these is provided after the import Please add these manually as ticks in Lynx 1 In Roberts MM on your PC Export your data to a text file Note the name and location of this file 2 Locate the file with a file explorer and rename it to roberts imp without the quotes This file name must be exactly like this or Lynx will not import it Android does not allow the copying of txt files easily hence the different extension 3 Now copy this file to the following folder on your device mnt sdcard LynxBirdTicks SouthernAfrica Import This folder should already exist if you have run Lynx BirdTicks the folder would have been created 4 SET DEFAULTS IN LYNX Now open Lynx BirdTicks The import process will add all the records to the current User Trip Location and Region It is VERY important therefor to make sure those current selections are what you want all your imports to be linked to It may be a good idea to
32. h to quickly find the correct bird multiple ordering methods etc Furthermore it enables you to filter your ticks to easily show you specific ticks for selected criteria The lists can be exported to a format that is easily opened by programs such as Excel Access and other database systems The program also includes a full featured mechanism to conduct SABAP2 Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2 mapping as well as hassle free one click data submission No more manual data entries for submission Simply set up the card make the ticks and submit the data The list of birds is based on Roberts 7 and endeavors to include all possible birds that can be found in this region and includes possible vagrant and rare species The list is updated automatically if there are any changes or additions so it will always be up to date This program is currently only available for Android based phones and tablets Features The main features of the Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa program are Comprehensive list of birds that can be found in Southern Africa GPS utilization to capture sighting coordinates and SABP2 pentad identification Live update of the bird list to keep it current and correct ASSA Multiple list sorting options Common Name Type Name Afrikaans and Scientific Name S Smart search facility shrinking the list of possible birds as you type v Visual indication of birds in life list current trip and current location w
33. in menu for access to the other functions On very small ERRES screens the list may be scrollable to show all the items SABAP2 HELP The top 5 items in the list shows the current default values for User Trip Location Region and Sort Tap on any of these to select a different item or to add edit or Page 9 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 delete an item See the next couple of sections for detailed descriptions of these actions The top four items are used for the information entered for a Quick Tick It is a good practice to set these before you go birding as it will make your ticking much easier and quicker The bottom three options take you to the Ticklist Utilities SABAP2 and Help areas Tap OK on the bottom or the device s Escape button to accept all the defaults and return to the bird list 10 1 User Tap on User in the menu to open a popup with SELECT USER all the available users Tap on a user in the list to select it as the current user This will take you pe back to the menu screen ohannes lap to Se ect long tap to Add Edit or Delete Long tap on a user in the user list to go to the user maintenance section This will present an option to add a new user edit the selected user or delete the selected user To add a new user tap Add and enter a name for the new user Three input dialogs will then open asking for your SABAP user num
34. info and all the ticks associated with that card Be careful when you do this it may affect your trip location year and even life list 13 7 Delete a tick from SABAP2 card If you made an error and delete a tick that was made on a SABAP2 card the program will automatically fix the total ticks for the card and any hourly totals that might be higher than the actual total ticks for the card The program however cannot determine with accuracy which hourly total should be adjusted due to possible stop and starts for a card If necessary you should edit the hourly total field s value as appropriate 13 8 Edit SABAP2 Card detail It is possible to manually change some of the card detail Fields that can be edited are Start Date Start Time End Date Completed Hours and Hourly Totals Page 27 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 The Total Ticks cannot be edited as this is determined by the actual ticks added while the card was running The Elapsed Time cannot be changed It is only used to determine the hourly totals during live mapping and is not used after manual editing of the card information After editing tap SAVE to accept the changes 13 9 Adding OLD SABAP2 Cards Although the program is ideally suited for live SABAP2 mapping it is also perfectly well suited to add and submit old cards To add old cards do the following 1 Turn the GPS off in the program MENU gt UTILITIES
35. ith totals for each v Quick Tick make a tick with just one long tap Page 2 LK NNN NNN NN S v Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 Expansive fully editable options for each tick during capture or afterwards Multiple users unlimited Cascading locations 7 levels unlimited number user defined Unlimited trips user defined Pre set regions for the whole Southern Africa Tick list visible on screen showing important detail of each tick Expansive filter options to show ticks meeting certain criteria Automated and manual data backup Export tick lists to Excel Access and other database readable format standard csv files Export tick lists to eBird formatted and ready for direct upload SABAP2 full protocol ad hoc protocol and incidentals functionality with hassle free data collection and submission Import list from Roberts Multimedia 4 Principles One of the main features of the program is to make ticks as quick as possible but also to give as much information as possible for each tick The program is very flexible in how you use it but the following explanation will help to use the program more efficiently When you make a tick the following information is collected automatically gt VV VV WV gt Date from system Time from system Users from defaults Trip from defaults Location from defaults Region from defaults GPS Coordinates if GPS is available and t
36. l the ticks for the current location Note this list does NOT include ticks for children of the current location e SABAP2 Current SABAP2 card shows all the ticks for the current or last used SABAP2 card e SABAP2 INCID SUBMITTABLE shows all the ticks that may be submitted to SABAP2 as incidentals Tap on your choice The TickList screen will open with a list of all the ticks as filtered The top info bar gives the total number of ticks shown in the list and the total number of unique birds in the list Page 14 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 The list shows all the ticks Scroll to show more of the a OB 1126 list Each tick shows the Bird Name as selected in TICKLIST Total 412 Unique Birds 176 defaults in the top line The bottom line gives the eee en date trip location and SABAP2 Card if available for the tick Hadeda Ibis Egyptian Goose Common Scimitarbill Tap on a tick to open it in the Tick Edit screen to see Black crowned Tchagra more information or to edit the tick s detail o an oan t ection Long tap on a tick to delete it You will be asked to PIACA CIONN confirm the action African Wood Owl African Barred Owlet On the bottom of the screen is a menu aat abia 11 1 FILTER African Firefinch Greater Honeyguide A Long tap on FILTER will open up the Quick Filter selection list as described earlier Tap on FILTER to open the filter scr
37. ly shown tap on EXPORT This will present you with the options WARNING STANDARD EBIRD FORMAT and CANCEL The data you in the list meets the equirements of SABAP2 and may Note If all the ticks in the list are Submittable be submited as in ental Do ih as SABAP2 Incidentals the EXPORT button will sepedane ahy on i ad atl change to SUB EXP In this case you will get a SUBMIT popup first that asks if you want to submit the Sapap2 H EXPORT H CANCEL data to SABAP2 or Export it See the section Page 16 Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 about SABAP2 Incidentals later in the manual for detail about submitting incidentals To export the SELECT EXPORT OPTION data in the list tap EXPORT ALL DATA SHOWN IN LIST WILL BI The STANDARD option will create a csv soleil commas separated values file of all the ticks k currently shown in the list as filtered and includes all the fields This format is a standard format that can be opened directly in Excel or can be easily imported to Access or other database programs for further manipulation or analysis The EBIRD option will create a csv file that fully meets the format requirements of eBird and you can upload this file directly without any further effort Note that exporting to the eBird format will use the Clements name as the common name for each bird This may be different from the one
38. m The locations are limited to 7 levels This will make SELECT LOCATION the following setup possible Continent gt Country gt Province gt District gt City gt Subur b gt Address Although possible to go 7 levels deep Tap to Select it may become laborious to drill down every time long tap to Add Edit or Delete to select a low level location have found using 3 to 4 levels to be useful but still practical When you tap Location in the main menu or other places where you can select a location such as Tick Edit a Popup will open with a list of Locations Locations with Children will have a gt in front of the name If you tap on a location without a gt in front it will be selected If you tap on a location with a gt in front another popup will open showing the Parent as well as the children of the parent Drill down until you find the location you want without a gt in front and tap on it to select it Page 12 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 To add a top level location long tap on any location and select ADD Enter the name for the location and select TOP LEVEL To add a child location first find the location that you want this new location to be a child of Long SELECT ACTION FOR LOCATION tap on the location and select ADD Enter the Lowveld name for the location and select CHILD j i ADD EDIT DELETE EDIT
39. n or off If UseGPS is turned on checked in the program and your device s GPS is not enabled you will get a message that will take you to the device s settings to turn the GPS on If you attempt to make a tick before the GPS has a fix you will get a message in that regard Please wait until the GPS has a fix before making a tick This can usually be seen on the top of your device s screen with a flashing dot Once it stops flashing the GPS has a fix and you re ready to go 12 6 Show Startup Screen Here you can select to show or not show the startup screen Page 21 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 It may be a good idea to show this screen for the first couple of times you run the program in case you want to access the QuickStart text but you can turn it off to go to the main bird list directly when you launch the program 12 7 Auto Backup on Exit With this option checked the program will automatically make a backup when you exit the program It is STRONGLY recommended that you check this option The only time you should not check this is if you play around and don t want to back up the current data when you close the program This action does the same as when you tap the BACKUP button but you will not be offered to send an email with the file 12 8 Allow Duplicate Ticks for Location SABAP2 Here you can choose how you want the program what to do when you try to add a tick where the cu
40. nd conduct SABAP mapping 13 1 Start a NEW SABAPZ2 session When the status is Off the NEW button will be visible Tap this button to start a new SABAP mapping session It is important to first before you go into the SABAP section select the current user from the main menu and make sure the correct SABAP number and name is associated with the user The mapping session is automatically associated with the current user If your system has a GPS sensor it is highly recommended to turn it on before Starting a new SABAP session Page 23 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 If your GPS is on and the program is set to use the GPS see 11 5 and the GPS has not made a fix WARNING yet a warning will open Wait for the GPS to geta PO EN SE S fix before you continue Please wait to start mapping When you tap New with the GPS on the program will automatically determine the Pentad code Tap OK to accept this or enter a different Pentad code If the GPS is not being used you will ENTER PENTAD CODE get a blank field Make sure you enter the pentad er code correctly and use the format ras OTO acc eek GPS panied lt do aot DDMMDDMM The program will automatically levels wn add the _ for the correct code format Tap OK to continue Now enter a description for the 7 i gt pentad Only 15 characters will be used for the description Anything longer will be trimmed ENTER PENTAD
41. ng African Firefinch e Total unique birds ticked for the current user J g African Fish Eagle This is your lifer list count African Golden Oriole e Total unique birds ticked for the current trip African Goshawk e Total unique birds ticked for the current African Grass Owl location e African Green Pigeon e Current Trip African Grey Hornbill e Current Location African Harrier Hawk If the trip or location is too long they may be truncated to allow all the information to fit on the info bar Ticks To the left of each bird there might be blue orange and or green dots A blue dot indicates that the specific bird is ticked on the user s life list An orange dot indicates that the bird has been ticked on the current trip A green dot indicates that the bird has been ticked in the current location Fast Scroll Once you start to scroll the list with your finger a fast scroll button will be visible on the right hand side of the screen Drag this button to rapidly scroll through the list 6 4 Smart Search At the top of the list is a search bar Tap inside this to open up the keyboard When you enter characters the list will be reduced to only include birds that include these characters The birds are filtered to include the continuous characters entered anywhere in the name For example typing in bat will then show all the birds with bat anywhere in the name With some practice and thought you will soon b
42. onditions such as Sunny and warm Cold raining windy etc in the Conditions Box O EDIT TICK DETAIL Enter the number of birds observed in the Count box You can manually enter the coordinates on the Lat lat 24374938 Lon 30 944047 and Lon boxes Use decimal degrees only with 6 seen mate rem jw decimal points Do not enter N or S for the latitude Heard Nest Photo SABAP Card Hoedspruit 2012 10 24 u indicator but use a to denote South Nothing needs to be added for North just a positive number The ABAP incidental i NOT Submittable Same applies to the Longitude do not use E or W 1 u e jo just a for east of the meridian If unsure about the fkequired for eBird submission coordinates just leave them blank Duration All Observations Click on any of the check boxes for Seen Heard Male L Bepon Female Juvenile Nest or Photo as relevant It is handy ey to check photo if you would be interested at a later Page 8 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 10 stage to show a list of all the ticks where you took a photo to make your photo list If the tick was made during a SABAP2 mapping session the Card detail will be shown This cannot be changed The SABAP2 Incidental Status can be Not Submittable Submittable or Submitted See the SABAP2 se
43. rrent location or SABAP2 Card if you are busy mapping and a tick already exists for that location or SABAP2 Card Note that the main screen will also show that there already exists a tick for the current location or SABAP2 card for the bird with a green dot next to the bird e Always this will allow the duplicates without warning e Warn you will be warned that you are making a duplicate tick You can choose to make the tick or cancel e Never you will not be allowed to make a duplicate tick at all Any attempt to make a tick that will be a duplicate is simply ignored 12 9 Set volume of Warning Sound The program will give audible warnings accompanied by popup messages to warn you when certain things happen This setting allows you to adjust the volume at which you want to hear this warning sound The warning sound volume is independent of the volume settings on your phone This allows you to set the warning sounds soft or off while still having full volume of your bird calls for example or the other way around Slide the selector left for softer and right for louder Tap TEST to play the warning sound at the selected volume Page 22 Lig Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 13 SABAP2 Mapping This is a very worthwhile project where norma people like you and me can collect bird sightings information and submit it to be included in a country os saath atus wide database This dat
44. se A tick may be submitted as incidental to SABAP2 if it meets the following criteria 1 The tick must NOT be made on a SABAP2 card and 2 The tick must have valid Longitude and Latitude GPS coordinates this information is used to allocate the pentad in which the bird was observed and is better quicker and more accurate than a description of the location Note the GPS coordinates can be 2012 09 17 Time 16 20 manually entered for a tick if it was not captured when the tick was made Be careful to add them accurately Activity onditions When a tick is submitted to SABAP2 as an _ incidental the notes for the submission is compiled from the following tick information fields Notes Activity Conditions and Count It is good practice to complete this as accurate and complete as possible to allow the best use of the data by SABAP2 There are two different methods to submit incidentals to SABAP2 Individual and Batch 13 11 1 Individual Tick Individual ticks can be submitted to SABAP2as f follows Open the tick in the Tick Edit Screen ii a ess l Towards the bottom of the screen you may an SABAP Card have to scroll the screen is a field SABAP SABAP Incidental Submittable Incidental If the value of the field is Submittable you may submit the tick Tabon amp Submittable A popup will open and give you the choice to submit the tick as an incidental or to mark the ti
45. up box to copyright LynxNature 2012 select the reader of your choice ebsite wwwlynxnature com Coming soon The easiest way to read this on your device is probably lors i e to rotate the device to the landscape orientation and a Y set the pdf zoom to Fit Page Width E A yay a k z COMPLETE SABAP2 IMPORT USER GUIDE Note you can also download this user guide from our F ne ee website to enable you to open it on a PC i oF Meie es i v Ab Gos Ko Tap on any of the other buttons to open the related quick guide Page 32
46. urned on If you go on a trip specific location or area for birding it works best to pre set all of these in the defaults and make the ticks as you go When a tick is made you can simply use these defaults for the record or you can immediately go into a detail screen to edit all the possible items Page 3 D Lynx BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 5 Welcome Screen When the program is opened the Welcome Screen will show The QuickStart button will open up a screen that gives a short overview of the program and how to use it This is merely a very short overview and does not include all the points discussed in this manual If you are in a hurry to get going read through this quick start text You can always open up the user manual later In the right hand bottom of the screen is an option to show this screen at start up Uncheck this to prevent the screen from showing at startup in the future This option can also be turned on or off in the Utilities area described later in the manual Tap on the OK button to enter into the program in the bottom left corner of the screen If the option to use the GPS is selected and the unit s GPS is turned off a warning will pop up to let you know that the GPS is not enabled Clicking on the ENABLE GPS option will take you to the system s screen where you can turn on the GPS This must be done by the user and cannot be done through the progr
47. x BirdTicks Southern Africa User Guide 1 0 gt Afrikaans With this option the main list will it wi e e 10 48 be by common Afrikaans names 141 101 David 2012 06 22 KNP Kruger NP gt Scientific Name Probably not being used a lot by normal birders but it can be handy if POoutKePPer e F i f es Bontkiewiet you only have the scientific name and want to find the common name for that bird ne Bontkwikkie The smart search is fully functional in all the sort fe Bontnuwejaarsvo l options Note All lists where the bird name occurs will use the name selected as the default So If Afrikaans is selected the tick lists and pick lists will also show the Afrikaans names 11 Tick List Tap on TickList in the main menu to open up the TickList screen A Popup will open with a list of choices she cesar oot a ALL for QuickFilter lists LIFE LIST ohannes e All shows all the ticks EAR LIST Johannes e Life List Current User shows a list of unique TRIP LIST General birds for the current user The oldest tick for each Ee Aieehcwn LOCATION LIST Home RV143 e Year List Current User shows a list of unique SABAP2 Hoedspruit 2012 07 22 birds for the current user in the current year SABAP2 INCID SUBMITTABLE e Trip List Current Trip shows a list of all the ticks for the current trip e Location List Current Location shows a list of al
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