[va-richmond-general] Re: Cormorants on lakes
- From: "Jim Blowers" <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <snyderfolks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Al Warfield'" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:55:22 -0400
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
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From: Jim Blowers <mailto:jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: acdbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx ; warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx ;
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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
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From: s.ridd@xxxxxxx
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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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