British Birds interactive (BBi)

British Birds

What's special about having all this content on DVD-ROM?

The content of 100 years of British Birds is so fascinating, so significant and so informative that it would be amazing just to have it all in one place - not just a whole book, or even a whole shelf-full but a whole bookcase of material all on one disk. But this DVD-ROM has been designed to provide much more than just a copy of all that content. It will also allow you to search, filter and display all the articles, photos and illustrations in ways that could never be possible with a mere set of journals. Here are just some of the possibilities:

View all the photos of any species - these can be displayed as thumbnails giving an overview of the photos available.

View any photo at whatever size you wish - click on any thumbnail to make it go 'full-screen'.

Compare any photos side-by-side. You could put photos of Greenish Warbler down one side of the screen, Arctic Warbler down the other and select whichever images of each species best illustrate whatever you are looking for.

View all the photos by any photographer - e.g. all the classic Eric Hosking photos.

View all the papers on any topic - the papers on identification or taxonomy or populations or behaviour can all be presented separately.

View all the papers, notes or letters about each species - e.g. not just the classic identification papers on difficult groups but also the correspondence that followed.

View all the illustrations by any artist - just about all the top bird illustrators are represented here. You can even compare the style of two artists side-by-side.

View all the letters or notes by any author - there's hours of fun to be had just looking through the contributions of controversial characters such as W R P Bourne!

View any or all of the papers in any series including the BBRC rarities report or Recent work by British Bird Photographers or Studies of less familiar birds.

View the monthly marathon or mystery bird features in sequence - struggle to identify the puzzling photo then find out the answer (and how it should have been arrived at) at the click of a mouse.

Search all the text for every mention of any word. You may have a specific research topic e.g. kleptoparasitism or you may want to look up what has been written about your local patch or you might just want to see every mention of your own name!

View the content in a number of ways - the design follows that used in the ground-breaking BWPi DVD-ROM so you have the freedom to display the material in the same variety of ways:

Full-screen mode - the image or article can fill the screen or be shrunk to whatever size suits you best

Split-screen mode - you can split the screen in two, each with it own menu from which you can select what appears on each side. If two illustrations were annoyingly on different pages (or even issues) in the original journal you can now put them side-by-side.

Thumbnail mode - this gives you an overview of what's available on that species or topic e.g. a list of all the papers or photos or illustrations of Lesser Spotted Eagle

Filter the information on display. When you display the assets for any species you can use the filter option to include/exclude articles, notes, letters, photos, illustrations etc. so you can view just the photos or just the main articles.

Or you can just view all the issues in any year, click on any of them and see what articles, photos, letters and notes were published inside.

DVD-ROM £102.95 UK & EU (£87.62 Non EU)