Hi Paul:
I could write 10 pages on these topics, literally ... I do a lot of things
with sequence numbers, and abbreviations, in my database work for MD/DC
Records Committee. However, my lists are somewhat specialized and tailored
to the committee's needs and don't readily lend themselves to exactly what
you are looking for.
However, I've provided some comments embedded in your message, below ...
At 20:31 03/16/2006, Paul Mackey wrote:
>I'm looking for help in finding species numbers for a database project I've
>created in MS Access to track "my" birds (and my humble life list). I've of
>course made use of the bird banding codes at the Patuxent River Wildlife R
>esearch Center and it's been very helpful. I've found, though, that there
>are gaps, for example the Wild Turkey is not listed. I could be overlooking
>the obvious.
PCD:
Wild Turkey ... USFWS bands are not used for game birds. However, see this
page ...
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/gallaou.htm
>So, is there another source of the species number codes? The
>codes are important for my database because I want the birds in ABA order
>and would rather not create a bogus ID number to sort the list. The species
>numbers performs the same task admirably.
PCD:
The above PWRC page also provides "AOU numbers" for the gallinacious birds.
Maybe this provides what you need?
The AOU Checklist (from whence the ABA and other North American
organizations takes taxonomy direction) stopped issuing/publishing AOU
numbers (i.e., species numbers) with the 7th Edition of the AOU Checklist
in 1998.
However, at this page, you can download a tab-delimited flat file of names
and 4-letter codes and sequentially number them to create an index list ...
http://www.birdpop.org/AlphaCodes.htm
These pages, below, provide everything you (n)ever wanted to know about
4-letter (and 6-letter) codes, but it does not provide a complete set of
indices ...
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/nom/
I'm not sure if this product provides sequence numbers or not ...
http://www.birdwatching.com/software/birdlists/omnilistinfo.html
Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Phil
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