About Band Manager

Band Manager is a new computer program produced jointly by the Bird Banding Laboratory and the Bird Banding Office. Band Manager:

• allows flexible data entry including batch entry of cohorts
• maintains band inventory
• manages data as a database
• produces schedules and disc files for the banding offices as well as other reports
• edits data catching data entry errors
• maintains a capture/recapture database
• is customizable with many user-defined fields

To use Band Manager, you will need at least a 486 computer with 16 megs of RAM (but preferably a Pentium computer) with Windows 3.11, Windows 95/98, or Windows NT. Band Manager is written in FoxPro 3.0, which is capable of cross-platforming to Power Macs. Please click here for an advisory on the distributed Power Mac version of Band Manager

Band Manager will allows the importation of ASCII files, comma delimited files, and other formats for banders using other database programs.

Band Manager is available on CD, diskettes or may be downloaded from the World Wide Web, click here to email a request to Bandmgr@usgs.gov to receive an Initial Installation Version of Band Manager. Please state which media you desire and what operating system you are using (Windows 3.11, Windows 95/98, Mac OS, etc.).

We at the BBL, BBO and BSC are very excited about this new program, written by Jon (Sandy) Dobbyn.

Downloading the Initial Installation Version of Band Manager for PC's

Download BMsetup.exe, this file will be rather large (7,288,832 bytes) as it includes extra files that are necessary to allow the program to run. However, once you have downloaded the complete file once, as updates to the program become available, you will only have to download the actual program itself .

WARNING!!! Once you have downloaded BMsetup.exe and installed Band Manager, if you download BMsetup.exe again and reinstall the program, you will ERASE many of the lookup files that will have been filled with information concerning your band inventory, locations, etc. Therefore, except under very unusual circumstances, you will only want to download and expand bmsetup.exe and install Band Manager once.

Click here to download bmsetup.exe, a self-extracting file. Once you have downloaded bmsetup.exe, execute the file (by either double-clicking the name or using the run option) to expand all the included files and then the installation of Band Manager will begin after all the files have been expanded.  This file contains all the updates as of August 15, 2001.

Click here to go to the "quick start" instructions that were sent with the CD when the program was released.

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