I own version 3.9, why isn't this species listed on my system?  It has been in the United States since 1982, and I spotted one in Lawton, OK, and Colorado Springs has a big write up on how this bird has migrated to the area.

I purchased this CD prior to leaving Texas, in Feburary 2008, since I would be traveling for 200 days to Alaska and back.

How or can I make my own entries into my sighting log.  I tried and was unsuccessful, thus I have resorted to Windows Microsoft.  The purpose of purchasing your program was to make my life easier and that doesn't seem to be happening.

Please Advise.

Thanking you in advance,

Robert L. Baldwin, Jr.

baldwintravelers@yahoo.com

Sorry you had trouble finding the Eurasian Collared-Dove. That is one of the pesky ones that gives folks a headache!

[Short answer]
Search for Collared, not Dove. The bird's last name is Collared-Dove]

[Long answer]
The Help file on the CD has a topic under Field Guide - Missing Birds:

Missing Birds

Sometimes when you are using the program, you type in a bird’s name – AND IT IS NOT THERE. The bird appears to be missing! We know that this is frustrating, but there are many things you can do that may fix the problem!

First of all, turn off any filters you previously selected. To do this, click View, click Filters, and then click the None radio button. Then click OK. This will fix the problem 90% of the time.

There are five other common reasons why the bird name is not appearing.

1. You are sorting the bird names in one of eight ways. If you display "Common Name (Last, First)" and elect to sort "Alphabetic", then wherever you enter a bird’s name, the program will expect something like "Warbler, Pine". It may appear as if the bird does not exist if you type in "Pine Warbler". Go back and change the display to "Common Name" and the sort to "alphabetic" or "taxonomic" – now typing Pine Warbler will find the bird.

2. You are typing in an obsolete name. Many, many bird names are no longer used.… Myrtle Warbler, Northern Oriole and Louisiana Heron are no longer used. You can actually find a bird by entering these old names, but first you must elect to have "alias" names appear in the Field Guide’s list of bird names. Click Tools in the Menu Bar and then click Options. Click the Name List tab and check the box that says "Include aliases in name list (English only)". Click OK. Now try again.

3. By golly, it really isn’t there! You may have one of the State/Province Birds CDs installed on your computer. This shows you all but the very rarest birds ever seen in that location. If a state has 500 species on the "Official" list of birds ever seen in the state, the program you have may show only 420 of them. Birds seen less that 10-15 times over the past 50 years do not appear. You can correct this by upgrading to the full version of the program which includes all the birds of North America (U.S. and Canada, excluding Hawaii).

4. Or…you may have typed in the name of one of the other 9,000+ birds not found in North America. Sorry, we can’t help you there! Visit the Online Nature Mall for books on these other bird species. [Exotic birds often appear in parks across North America. These are escaped or feral birds and are not included in the CD. Examples include Egyptian Goose, Black Swan and many species of parrots and parakeets.]

5. You are not typing in the full name of the bird. Many species have the word "Common" or "Northern" in front of the name you are entering. Try displaying by Common Name (Last, First) and then type in the name you know, such as Cardinal. When you do, Northern Cardinal will be one of your choices.

The Knowledgebase also contains an article on this topic.
"The Program is Not Working Correctly" - "Birds Are Missing - Where Are They"

This article is the same as above, but we added another item:

6. The bird’s last name may contain a hyphen. If you search for Eurasian Collared-Dove by sorting alphabetically and then you type in DOVE you will not see the bird. The last name of this bird starts with COLLARED. Other examples are Beardless-Tyrannulet, Black-Hawk, Forest-Falcon, Golden-Plover, Grasshopper-Warbler, Ground-Dove, House-Martin, Night-Heron, Nightingale-Thrush, Palm-Swift, Pond-Heron, Prairie-Chicken, Pygmy-Owl, Quail-Dove, Reef-Heron, Rosy-Finch,  Sage-Grouse, Scops-Owl, Screech-Owl, Scrub-Jay, Sea-Eagle, Silky-flycatcher, Storm-Petrel, Thick-knee, Turtle-Dove, Violet-ear, Whistling-Duck and Wood-Pewee.