J-Bird User's Guide (Version 0.5.2)

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• SourceForge for supporting this project and more generally for supporting development of opensource software;
  
  
• Rolf A. de By, the American Ornithologists' Union, Commission Internationale des Noms Français des Oiseaux, and Alain Fossé for curating bird lists and making them available on the web;
  
  
• Zhao Yonghong for permitting his dbf database driver to be distributed with J-Bird for importing species lists;
  
  
• Developers of opensource software used by J-Bird including
  
  • McKoi SQL Database driver,
  • VAInstall,
  • BrowserLauncher,
  • Java Excel API ,
  • JSmooth,
  • Oranevolt Ant Tasks, and
  • Mac OS X JarBundler ANT Task.
  
  
• The Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at Ohio State University for permission to use its audio clips with J-Bird.
  
  
• The Boyles for motivating this project;
  
  
• C. Allen for providing details of the Grinnellian field note system;
  
  
• N. Takebayashi, W. Frankino, A. Krist, and A. Buerkle for suggestions regarding usability;
  
  
• J. Neff and C. Shields for computing enthusiasm and debugging.
  
  
• Users of J-Bird for bug reports and feature requests.