Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:41:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jerry and Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: 4-letter Abbreviations MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is a six letter code described on the site that Joe McDaniel mentioned in his note on the Scarlet Tanager. This looks like an interesting site. Lots of good info. I'll repeat it here: http://www.birdnature.com Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Downing To: Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] 4-letter Abbreviations > 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 > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================