Re[2]: Coding bird names

Kathy Klimkiewicz (Kathy_Klimkiewicz@usgs.gov)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:31:47 -0600 

     Blue-headed Vireo is BHVI. SOVI is for only those birds in BBL files 
     that cannot be easily data converted to the new species designations.
     
     Cheers,
     Kathy Klimkiewicz
     Laurel MD


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Subject: Re: Coding bird names
Author:  mdosprey@ARI.Net at NBS-Internet-Gateway
Date:    4/12/99 7:11 PM


     
               That is because bird banding codes are based on earlier known 
common names so that birds banded in years gone by are not confused with birds 
banded recently.  Perhaps The Tufted Titmouse was previously known as the 
Eastern Tufted Titmouse (it could at any rate be separated from the 
Black-crested Race).  Bird banding codes for Baltimore Oriole should now make 
sense (again), but the Blue-headed Vireo's banding code is SOVI.  Go figure.
     
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               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
     
     
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