Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:33:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: 4-letter Abbreviations MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HA! Argghhh Hmm, I will have to look into these problems.... Thanks for pointing them out to me. Maybe I just need to come up with my own system from scratch. Perhaps a 6 letter code or something..... Thanks again! Greg -------------------------- Greg Downing Manchester, MD NPN Field Editor/Avian Gallery Moderator www.naturephotographers.net gregdowning@mindspring.com http://gregdowning.imageculture.com (portfolio) www.gdphotography.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Saunders" To: Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] 4-letter Abbreviations > Greg, > > Now that you know all about the 4-letter banding codes...do you know about > the six-letter species coding scheme used by the Audubon folks for the > Christmas Count data base? Also, how about the 4-letter, 1-numeral code to > do away with the collisions that the banding codes would generate? CAWR1 is > Cactus Wren, CAWR2 is Canyon Wren, and CAWR3 is Carolina Wren. (With these > you don't have to memorize all the special case designators buried in the > banding codes.) What fun! > > Norm ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================