Jesse (and others):Here is a link to a more comprehensive list than that provided by the bird banding laboratory (as explained in the introduction to this website):
http://www.birdpop.org/alphacodes.htm Merry birding, Mark Quoting Jesse Yancy <jlyancy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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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