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For Registered Users only! (If you receive our newsletter, you already are a registered user.) If you have not yet registered your existing software, please do so now!
Who This Product is for: REGISTERED Customers who have a previous version (i.e., Vers. 3.x or Vers. 4.0) of the North American Bird Reference Book only and who wish to upgrade to LANIUS V5.
OVER 90,000 COPIES SOLD! KIDS LOVE IT! TEACHERS WANT IT!Note: NEWLY REVISED! This product began shipping in January 2004. A visionary, multimedia CD-ROM experience for bird lovers, Version 5.2 of the North American Bird Reference Book is the bird lover's ULTIMATE information source. LANIUS Excalibur is now sold separately.Note: You MUST already have a copy of a previous version (3.x or 4.0) of the North American Bird Reference Book installed on your computer in order to order this upgrade; the software will not operate on computers without the previous version installed. To determine if you qualify for this upgrade, please start your current copy of our North American Bird Reference Book. To check the version number of the software, at the Main Menu screen, click on the HELP pull-down menu and then click on "About the Reference Book." In the resulting screen that pops up, check the very last line which contains the version number. If this number begins with a "3" or a "4", you qualify to upgrade to version 5.0. See the list below for many of the most important features included with the North American Bird Reference Book: - Detailed species accounts for over 900 North American birds, providing a description of each bird's habitat, identifying field marks, distributional range, size, feeding habits, and a summary of its reproductive biology.
- An Easy-To-Use, Intuitive Interface. Here are more screen samples!
- A full-featured multimedia application, including over 625 detailed range maps. In addition, 851 high-resolution photographs, and 415 songs or call notes for many of the bird species found in North America are also provided.
- Compare Photographs: The program now features the ability to compare the photo of one bird with that of another on the same screen, allowing you to improve your identification skills.
- Create Custom Queries containing only the birds you are interested in; then use these queries as the source for quizzes that you give yourself to improve your ability to identify the birds.
- The Identification Matrix - identify a bird simply by specifying the field marks you saw (e.g., size of bird, color of feathers, length of bill, etc.).
- LANIUS Software's Internet Browser - access to 100 Internet web sites related to birds and bird watching.
- Try your luck with the Random Bird Sighting and Random Bird Song quizzes.
- Close to 20 Essays on Birds and Ornithology.
- 700 LANIUS Software Secrets -- identification hints or trivia about the birds of North America!
- The management status and the Breeding Bird Survey population trend index is listed for each species.
Since our store opened we have had numerous requests for comprehensive birding software that not only includes bird songs [and] range maps, but at a price everyone could afford. Now we have it! LANIUS Software's North American Bird Reference Book ... We have reordered several times in less than a month.-- Joanie Smith, Wild Bird Center store.
System requirements: Vers. 3.x or 4.0 of North American Bird Reference Book, multimedia PC, 486 or higher processor, 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended), 6x speed CD-ROM drive, 36 MB hard disk space, Windows 95 or higher. |
