[missbird] Re: "New" abbreviations
- From: Jason Hoeksema <hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wayne Patterson <wrp6@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:00:20 -0600
Thanks everyone for the useful info on the 4-letter codes. I agree with
Van Harris that good manners calls for typing out the full name of a
species at least upon the first usage in an e-mail.
I also prefer species names in ALL CAPS when they are in a body of other
text, so that they are easy to pick out. This practice is a rule on some
other listservs, and I think it works well, but that is just my personal
preference.
Jason Hoeksema
Oxford, MS
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Wayne Patterson <wrp6@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Crossley's Field Guide has an index of them, if you'd rather have it in
> book form. The guide is pretty useful as well.
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> Wayne Patterson
> Shannon, MS Lee Co.
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> On Monday, January 5, 2015 2:40 PM, JR Rigby <jr.rigby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Jesse,
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> These four letter codes are used by bird banders and often as shorthand
> among birders. They suffer from being easier to use than to decipher
> because most of them are constructed in a very regular and easy to remember
> way (but this often leads to use of incorrect codes where they deviate from
> the pattern... adding to confusion).
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> The codes and their decoding are available here:
> http://www.birdpop.org/DownloadDocuments/Alpha_codes_tax.pdf
> Just use a simple ctrl-f search to find the common name or code of
> interest.
>
> There is also a recent and exhaustive set of commentary about usage of
> these codes by birders available on the ABA Blog:
> Rich Wright: http://blog.aba.org/2014/12/the-code.html
> Derek Lovitch:
> http://blog.aba.org/2014/12/open-mic-the-deal-with-alpha-codes-part-1.html
> Derek Lovitch Part II:
> http://blog.aba.org/2014/12/open-mic-the-deal-with-alpha-codes-part-2.html
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> JR
> Oxford
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Jesse Yancy <jlyancy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This might sound simplistic, but I’m often confused by the new
> abbreviations that are often used in this forum (TRKI for tropical
> kingbird, for instance) and I was wondering if there is some sort of guide
> to these or are they just ones birders use as shorthand.
> Jesse Yancy
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