[va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

Here is a list of banding codes on the Internet:

 

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/MANUAL/aspeclst.htm

 

There are a few quirks in it - for example, it doesn't give the
Yellow-rumped Warbler, but it does give Audubon and Myrtle Warblers. A DOVE
is not a dove but a dovekie. But it looks like it lists all the species we
see around here.

 

I suppose codes are like codes for astronomers (Ori for Orion, Cep for
Cepheus), 10 codes for police and other public workers (a 10-46 on Smith
Street), prescription codes (like the Rx), element codes like Hg for
chemists, mathematical abbreviations such as sin and cos and so forth. I say
codes are OK here if they are first mentioned with their meaning.

 

Jim Blowers

 

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From: Nelda Snyder [mailto:snyderfolks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 2007 April 24 14:34
To: Jim Blowers; Al Warfield; acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx;
va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: s.ridd@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

 

For those of us who are not that savvy, please write out the names or use an
easily understood shortened name such as "red belly".  I don't even bother
to read the emails with the "codes".  That may be fine for surveys but not
for many of us just plain bird lovers.

 

Nelda

 

 

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From: Jim Blowers <mailto:jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: Al <mailto:warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Warfield;acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx;va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Cc: s.ridd@xxxxxxx

Sent: 4/24/2007 1:45:34 PM 

Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

 

Yes, but then it needs to be spread out when reporting to others. Write down
AMROB on your on-site birding list, but write American Robin, 11 on a
report to us. (That B is my code  hexadecimal for 11). And that code for
the Canada Goose needs to be changed, maybe to CNGS. Otherwise,
Spanish/English-speaking birders are going to laugh every time they see
CAGO. Unless you want to make a comment about these birds. Yes, they do mess
up parks and other land. 

 

Jim Blowers

I tawt I taw a TUTI bird.

 


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From: Al Warfield [mailto:warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 2007 April 24 13:21
To: Jim Blowers; acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx; va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: s.ridd@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

 

I think you guys need to take the course on how to do bird surveys. These
are standard banding codes. Look up banding codes  - Google it - and you
will see that it's the coming way to abbreviate birds seen or heard. When
surveying one does not have time to write down complete bird names.

 

Al Warfield

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Jim Blowers <mailto:jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx ; warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx ;
va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Cc: s.ridd@xxxxxxx 

Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:41 PM

Subject: RE: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

 

I agree. I would rather hear about robins than about AMROs. Besides, CAGO
means I poop in Spanish.

 

Jim Blowers

 


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From: va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ann Brooks
Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 21:01
To: warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: s.ridd@xxxxxxx; va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

 

ALL

I certainly understand the desire to use the abbreviations for our birds,
especially when they are fairly obvious DCCO, but I have to tell you I think
this is a good way to turn people off.

ANN BROOKS


On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Al Warfield wrote:

Linda & I visited Three Lakes Nature Center (in Henrico Co) on Saturday -
the one that was featured in the Saturday TD - and saw DC Cormorants (DCCO)
and Canada Geese (CAGO) there. There was one CAGO nesting on an island.
Also, that's a good place to see EABL and CHSP - on an asphalt path from one
of the lakes to the parking lot. Other than that there were some TUTI and a
few RBWP and DOWP.
 
Al Warfield
----- Original Message -----
From: s.ridd@xxxxxxx 
To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes

Echo Lake in western Henrico County has spring migrating Cormorants.- Sue

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From: tyler  turpin <tylerturpin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Mr. Barnett 
> Thank you for reporting the Cormorants at U of R lake. They made a year
round 
> presence at Canterbury lake off Pump Road starting 3 or 4 years
ago.Cormorants
> have made a great comeback in less than 20 years. In the early 1990's they
were 
> only a few at the Jamestown Ferry dock. They are now year round even on
Lake 
> Robinson in Rockbridge County (the county around Lexington VA) I have
started to 
> keep track of the ponds and lakes a mile or more from the rivers that do
not 
> connect to a  river  or only connect to a river by a mile or more of creek
and 
> contain Cormorants. I have the following locations so far by personal 
> observation or listserve reports:What other inland locations can we add?
> 
> Rockwood Park            Chesterfield 
> Swift Creek Reservoir    Chesterfield
> Harrison Lake            Charles City
> Canterbury Lake           Henrico 
> Tuckahoe Creek Route 6 vicinity  Goochland/Henrico   
> Curles Neck inland former gravel mine ponds Henrico
> Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens  Henrico
> U  of R lake                     Henrico
> Byrd Park Lakes          Richmond 
>            
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