[missbird] Re: "New" abbreviations
- From: "Jesse Yancy" <jlyancy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Billy Mitchell'" <bill.unit@xxxxxxx>, <hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 17:09:30 -0600
Thank you all so much. Admittedly, I’m somewhat relieved to discover that I am
not the only one who considers them somewhat vexing, that they are indeed
“easier to use than decipher”.
Jesse Yancy
From: Billy Mitchell [mailto:bill.unit@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:41 PM
To: hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Wayne Patterson; jlyancy@xxxxxxxxxxx; MISSBIRD
Subject: Re: [missbird] Re: "New" abbreviations
And, of course, there's an app for that! Search for "Bird Codes".
B Mitchell
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Jason Hoeksema <hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Wayne Patterson
Shannon, MS Lee Co.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 2:40 PM, JR Rigby <jr.rigby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jesse,
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).
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:
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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