Re: Garrett County birding 5/6/99

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On 5/6/99 9:16 PM Phil Davis said

>Elliot -
>
>You mean you're NOT fluent in four character "banding" codes  ... ???
>

>
>I do all my field listing with 4-digit codes -- it really is convenient
>(once you "break the code")!


I find bird name to code conversion easy (but then there are the 
exceptions). Bird code to bird name conversion is more difficult, unless 
you have memorized them. At my age all my memory cells are full. I am 
afraid that if I memorize anything new, I will forget something that I 
already know.

It seems to me that it is time for the genetic engineers to come up with 
a fix for this problem. Perhaps in the future people will gain brain 
cells and lose fat cells as they get older, instead of the other way 
around.

Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD USA
mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net

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