Getting rid of Gray Teal etc in eBird app

In the default version of the eBird app some of the names are not those we use, such as Gr*a*y Teal instead of Grey Teal. David McDonald has found the solution to getting back to “our” names: see his message below and the help file is here . One other small tip is that to access the language setting, click the cog icon at the bottom of the screen. Martin Butterfield http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/ ———- Forwarded message ———- From: David McDonald (personal) < david@dnmcdonald.id.au> Date: 19 June 2015 at 09:01 Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] New eBird iOS app To: canberrabirds@canberrabirds.org.au Hello again. Yes I had set the language to English (Australian) and it returns the Clements species names. I have now checked the (excellent) eBird help files and the answer is there. It is a known bug. To get the English (Australia) species list, change the language back to English (United States) and go back to the home page. Wait till that species list downloads. Then change the language to English (Australia), go back to the home page and wait till the Oz species list downloads. You may need to do that twice. I did it once and it was fixed, now shows the Australian names incl Grey Teal and Australian Magpie. The app works under iOS only at this stage, eBird says that the Android version is on the way, not yet released though. Yes it is a bit hard to find in the Apple app store. Search on ‘eBird Mobile’ and you will get it. And it is free! Another fantastic eBird resource, highly recommended. David On 18/06/2015 9:20 PM, David McDonald (personal) wrote: > Have you tried out the new eBird iOS app? It works just like BirdLog ANZ, > makes data entry a breeze, tho I have yet to test its offline checklist > capacity, a problem with BirdLog. > > It uses the Clements taxonomy & nomenclature, so we get oddities like Gray > Teal and Australasian Magpie. > > Highly recommended – David > > ******************************************************************************************************* This is the email announcement and discussion list of the Canberra Ornithologists Group. Emails posted to the list that exceed 200 kB in size, including attachments, will be rejected. When subscribing or unsubscribing, please insert the word ‘Subscribe’ or ‘Unsubscribe’, as applicable, in the email’s subject line. List-Post: canberrabirds@canberrabirds.org.au> List-Help: canberrabirds-help@canberrabirds.org.au> List-Unsubscribe: canberrabirds-unsubscribe@canberrabirds.org.au> List-Subscribe: canberrabirds-subscribe@canberrabirds.org.au> List archive: < http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds> List manager: David McDonald, email