Hi Tweeters,

as I told some of the people who were at the Zoo on Saturday, I have written
a little program to search bird names.
I'm afraid it's only for the techies who have WEB access though.

The goal of this program is for you to get more familiar with bird names,
specially the scientific names, in trying to make you discover the meanings
of some of them. You can search for a particular pattern in the scientific
name, in the English names, or in both.

The program is based on the 1990 Sibley & Monroe List of the Birds of the
World, so maybe there already is some obsolete English/scientific names, but
it is still a valuable source of information I guess.


I'm not sure I am really clear in my explanations...
Anyway, try it at:
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~serge/smquery/presentation.shtml
where I show an possible use of it.

It is also accessible from my nature page at:
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~serge/nature.html
where I just added a picture of a Killer whale breaching out of the water...

Of course, comments on it (and also on the lenghty introduction) are
*very* welcome.

Enjoy

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Serge Le Huitouze Intelligent Software Group
email: serge at cs.sfu.ca School of Computing Science
tel: (604) 291-5423 Simon Fraser University
fax: (604) 291-3045 Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6 CANADA
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~serge/