[va-richmond-general] Re: WEVI nest destroyed

could also be West Virginia........

Julie

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From: "Al & Linda Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Margaret, 
> 
> That's White-eyed Vireo. 
> It's usually done like this: It's a;ways 4 letters. With a hypenenated word 
> you use the first letter of each word making up the hyphenated word. For a 
> non-hyphenated word it's the first 2 letters of the word. Therefore WEVI for 
> White-eyed Vireo. For a single word bird name like Killdeer, it's the first 
> 4 letters (KILL). If the bird name is 2 words like Blue Jay, its BLJA. For 
> yellow-bellied Thumb-sucker it's YBTS. (That's a joke!) There are some 
> variations because of the same combination resulting from more than one 
> species. For all the band codes of all the birds in the world, try one of 
> these websites. 
> http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm#L 
> 
> http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm#E 
> 
> If you have bird list software such as Avisys it's really easy to enter data 
> using band codes. You can even make up what you think is the right code and 
> enter it. If there are several possibilities they will be listed and you can 
> choose the right one. Of course banders use them too, as do people doing 
> surveys of birds. Due to the amount of grief I encountered when I used them 
> earlier I don't use them on the Listserv anymore without definition. But 
> it's a good idea for serious birders to at least know how they are derived. 
> I learned about them in Aimee Weldon's bird survey course. I doubt if YBTS 
> would give a good bird, but who knows? 
> 
> 
> 
> Al Warfield 
> 
> 
> 
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> > What is a WEVI, please? 
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