Search observations

Observations hold records of the species I register. They are NOT necessarily linked to the photo records under the photo sections. Some of them are, but don't count on it. Search both to be sure.
   
Species category*- +  ?Category is mandatory, as it controls which species and families will be visible in the search result.

If you decide to search for specific species or families from the fields below, the search will only include those species or families, but remember that they will only show in the result if the corresponding category has been selected.
  Start typing to be able to choose.
Species ?To search for one or more specific species.
Start typing the English name or the equivalent 4-letter code for that species (see basic code-rules on wikipedia, search for "bird codes").

A drop-down box shows up from where to select the species. If you want to search for more than one species, you can click on the add-button after you have selected a species; it will then be remembered, and you can search for another species which you also add with the add-button.

The number of added species will show up after the exclamation mark, and you can click it to edit the species list (max 30 species).

In a future version it will very likely be possible to search a species in all the four languages supported by this website: English, Danish, Spanish and Swedish.
Family ?To search for specific families. See guidelines for species to see how it works. The only difference is that families don't have 4-letter-codes attached to them, why you can only search for the English name.
Locality ?See guidelines under species for basic functionality.

Locality is not easy to use for others than myself. The localities I've created are of course personal and often not logical to others. I aim to label them in the local language why Danish localities will be in Danish and Mexican localities in Spanish. Localities are the same throughout the site, and some of them can be seen in the drop-down list in the photo section.

Localities are nested in 6 levels. If the Levels box is checked it means that you will have all the localities, that are nested below the one you search for, added to the search query - eg. if you search for the country Denmark then you will get observations from all the localities that are linked to Denmark from all the levels below the level that Denmarks belongs to. If the Levels box is not checked you will only get observations from the exact locality that you searched for. In this case you would only get those observations that have been registered specifically to the Denmark-locality. It will of course be very few observations that are registered directly at a level this high in the hierarchy.

The hierarchy is created to my private observation app, The Birding Program, which is not accessible to others, why you can't see how the localities are connected.    
Date(yyyy-mm-dd) From:    To:      ?Shortcuts for date filling:
4 digits: Enters start and end date of that year.
d/D: Enters the current day (server in Denmark).
x/X: Enters the entire range of all observation dates.
z/Z: Clears the entered dates.
m/M: Clears the month selector to the right.  
User
Search in comment   ? By using the 4 characters: space, asterisk, ampersand and exclamation mark you can make a more detailed search.

Space ( ):
Means OR. Example: "dog horse". Positive result: Where text either contains dog OR horse.
Asterisk (*):
Used as string indicator. Example: *dog horse*. Positive result: Text where "dog horse" is found like that as one sequence. NOTICE: If an odd number of asterisks are used, all of them will be ignore in the search.
Ampersand(&):
Means AND. Example: "dog&horse". Positive result: Text where both dog AND horse are present.
Exclamation mark(!):
Means NOT LIKE. Example: "dog!horse". Positive result: Where text contains dog BUT NOT horse.

If more of the 3 indicators ( &!) are chosen in a row between search words only the first will be taken into consideration. Example: "dog !horse". Result: The exclamation mark is ignored since space is the first indicator. The search will therefore be like: "dog horse". Also will all leading and ending indicators in the string be ignored. BUT it is possible to use NOT LIKE (!) as the first character. Example: "!dog". Result: Text where the word dog DOES NOT exist.

There is no limit to the number of search words, but the total search string has a maximum of 100 characters.The search is NOT case sensitive.
Language          ?Languages are only affecting the species names in the result output, and cannot be used to search observations [yet] nor change the guiding texts. If a species has not been assigned a local name English will be chosen as default.
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          ?Max 100 observations. Only works if at least one specific species or family has been selected.
      ?Max 500 species
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