Scythebill 16.6 - IOC 14.2 and checklist printing

Scythebill 16.6 is now available!  ....  As always, download here, and let me know if you have any problems, either on Facebook or by email.

IOC 14.2 taxonomy

The headline feature is the latest IOC taxonomy - 14.2, released earlier this month.  It's a huge revision, with splits ranging the familiar (Red Grouse from Willow Ptarmigan) to the obscure (Vella Lavella Monarch from Kolombangara Monarch), to the big (a 7-way split of House Wren) and the absurdly big (a 17-way split of Island Thrush).  And there's some lumps as well - for those of us who've spent time in the Palearctic, all the Redpolls are lumped.  You can see the full list of taxonomic changes on the IOC site.

As always, Scythebill will handle much of the work for you automatically.  Once you're done, visit the Splits and Lumps report under Special Reports, and see what changed for your list:

Changes to my list in 14.2

Checklist printing

There's a new option when viewing a location checklist in Browse by location:  Print...

This gives you a way to print out a checklist without carefully formatting a spreadsheet, including a compact form which takes up very little space.

A compact checklist for Grenada

Small features and fixes

There's a new preference "Show extinct taxa?".  It's enabled by default, but you can turn it off if you'd rather not see extinct species and subspecies in Scythebill.  (If you've been fortunate enough to see a species that is now extinct, it will still be shown.)

Observado imports should more consistently include latitude and longitude. (At least some countries used "lon" as an abbreviation for longitude instead of "lng".)

As a very minor tweak: if you sort report spreadsheets by date, and there are multiple observations with that same date, those observations will be sorted in taxonomic order.