BirdBase & BirdArea

BirdBase, which contains every species in the latest update of the latest edition of Dr. James Clements' Birds of the World, was built from the ground up by Santa Barbara Software Products to satisfy your needs as a serious birder: this Windows sightings program is easy to use, is extremely fast, has extremely-well designed and executed features, and yet uses the least computer memory and hard disk space -- a lifetime's accumulation of sightings will not even begin to fill the very smallest hard disk. And with BirdBase you will never have to discard your sightings database and start over again due to the frequent changes in bird names and taxonomy. The more sightings you record the more you will appreciate the way the program protects your database. A bird sightings database recorded by BirdBase will never be outgrown.

The latest addition to the Santa Barbara Software Products family of birding programs is BirdArea, a Windows database manager that has detailed information about the range of every Clements' bird species. It and BirdBase are independent programs. BirdArea used alone can produce check lists for any world area from the range data, with endemics labelled, that are invaluable when planning birding trips and during the trips. In fact, we sell BirdArea without BirdBase to world birding tour operators who use it to produce check lists for their clients. And some BirdBase owners do not have BirdArea. But most of them do because when BirdBase has recorded sightings BirdArea has many additional capabilities. Furthermore, BirdArea makes the BirdBase short list feature much more powerful.