Re: Coding bird names
Elliot Kirschbaum (ekirschb@bcpl.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:14:28 -0400
No, not in the 6th ed. either.
And not in my copy of the field guide by Chan Robbins, which uses the
names in the 5th ed.
And not in my copy of Peterson, published in 1947, based on the 4th ed.
So, if the name Eastern Tufted Titmouse was used and coded by banders as
ETTI, it must have been long ago, and if previously used codes continue
to be used long after the common name has been changed, that makes the
codes even more difficult to decipher. You need to be a historian as well
as a cryptologist.
Elliot
On 4/12/99 5:55 PM Ellen Paul said
>Back in the days of the 6th edition...
>
>Ellen
>
>Elliot Kirschbaum wrote:
>>
>> On 4/12/99 8:48 AM Ellen Paul said
>>
>> >Now, even that can be a problem because while there are official common
>> >names, not everyone uses them or knows them. You would need to know that
>> >what we commonly call a Titmouse or a Tufted Titmouse is actually an
>> >Eastern Tufted Titmouse. ETTI.
>>
>> That is news to me. According to the A.O.U. Checklist of North American
>> Birds, seventh edition, there are the following Titmice:
>>
>> Bridled Titmouse
>> Oak Titmouse
>> Juniper Titmouse
>> Tufted Titmouse
>>
>> While there are two groups of the last (Tufted Titmouse and Black-crested
>> Titmouse), the former is not named "Eastern" according to the AOU.
>>
>> Elliot Kirschbaum
>> Baltimore, MD USA
>> mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net
Elliot Kirschbaum
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