[missbird] Re: "New" abbreviations
- From: Billy Mitchell <bill.unit@xxxxxxx>
- To: "hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx" <hoeksema@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:40:55 -0600
And, of course, there's an app for that! Search for "Bird Codes".
B Mitchell
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> 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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