This page explores some of the many other functions built into EnjoyBirds, but why so many functions?
Although not strictly a modern GUI program, it was designed to reproduce or imitate the functions of a
paper book Field Guide.
In a paper book, birders often thumb through plates to find a bird — the program has a
[Gallery of Illustration]
, which shows small pictures. You click on one and you now look more
closely at the picture, with field marks and sounds available.
Birders often use a book’s table of contents or index — the program has a Catalog
of either English names or Technical names. Common or technical names are set by
toggling the yellow button
[Group Eng] (shown here)
or [Group Syst.]
Suppose your trip, set in UserBook “A”, was to the central mountains of Costa Rica, to Monteverde cloud forests. You could quickly look up all the hummingbirds by using the Catalog then the Gallery (see menu above).
You have the names set (above illustration) to English,
and you click [Catalog] and you get this screen:
(Click on picture to see detailed larger photo, 220k)
You find the hummingbirds at the top of the third column, and click it, and it
goes to the main list.
Then you click [Gallery of Illustration] to produce the next screen: