Overall the monitoring data looks great so far – well done.
Threats: - the first few Threats have a short comment in the Notes – this is very useful, and I hope you can extend the Notes to all Threat records – just a few words to explain more. E.g. for Inner Gulf of Thailand, one threat is Invasive Alien Species. If the Notes could say “Brown Rat” or “Mimosa pigra”, this would be helpful in understanding which key bird species are affected by the threat.
State – populations: - if it is possible to provide the Reference Population for each species, or as many as possible, that would be very useful. The Reference can be the original ‘site population estimate’, when the site was first identified/documented (in the 2005 national IBA book), or it can be any number which you feel is a good ‘target’ for the site if/when it is in a good or healthy state (based on your historical knowledge of the site). I realise that this can be difficult to estimate though…. So, in the absence of any Ref Pop, I will use the Actual Population as the Reference Population.
If the Excel template helps you to understand the process, please continue to use it… but overall, I feel that using the WBDB directly may be easier and clearer. So perhaps try adding the info, that you have so far entered into the spreadsheet, directly into WBDB. I suspect that you may find it clearer and easier than using the spreadsheet. Mike or I can set up the WBDB logins as necessary.