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Help on choosing a site name
You should enter an appropriate name in the site-name box on the
site registration form. Please specify the location in words (avoid
codes or numbers) using a maximum of 40 characters. You should use
names that will allow you to distinguish your own sites clearly
and easily, and that can also be understood by others. It will help
the BirdTrack team to follow up interesting and unusual records
if you use site names that we can understand without having to refer
back to you. Where a site has a readily understood name that can
be found on Ordnance Survey maps or is in wide use by birdwatchers
then please use it. Sometimes you may need to qualify such names
to indicate the part of the area where you do your bird watching.
Different BirdTrack users can use the same site names (you must
enter them under your own user id) and we encourage you to do this
where appropriate. Initially all BirdTrack analyses will be based
on grid references rather than site names but in future we hope
to add reports on the birds seen at particular sites.
When you register a site you must give it a name that is different
from the ones that you have already registered. However, you can
have different sites with the same grid-reference or postcode. For
example, three different walks from your house, all assigned to
your postcode, could be registered as different sites if you wanted
to keep the records from them separate.
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of good site names: |
Ludham
Bridge |
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Barnham
Common |
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Loch Rannoch |
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| Examples
of poor site names: |
My garden |
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Compartment
five |
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Canal walk |
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