A system for encoding bird field notes |  |
A system for encoding bird field notes | |
An instance of this class represents a sighting of one or more birds that share locality, age, sex, or other details. Public attributes:
.birdForm
The kind of bird as an instance of Section 13, “class BirdForm: Records for one kind of
bird”.
.locGroup
If the instance has any locality information attached
to it, this attribute contains that information as an
instance of Section 14, “class LocGroup: Inheritable locality data”.
.ageSexGroup
If the instance specifies any of the content
described in Section 5.10, “The age-sex-group attributes”,
this attribute will be an instance of Section 17, “class AgeSexGroup: Age and sex details”, otherwise None.
.sightNotes
If the instance has any of the sighting data
described in Section 5.12, “The sighting-notes elements”,
this attribute will be an instance of Section 15, “class SightNotes: Sighting notes”, otherwise None.
To retrieve the locality information of a Sighting instance S
S.getLocGroup()
The result is returned as an instance of Section 14, “class LocGroup: Inheritable locality data”.