Subject: decoding the 4-letter codes
Date: May 2 09:17:23 2000
From: Michael Hobbs - Hummer at isomedia.com


I, too, noticed the penguins on the bird banding list, and it puzzled me for a
while.

But then I remembered that this was a government agency, so their list would
reflect their needs.

The United States has had a research base on Antarctica for many years.
Presumably government scientists have been banding penguins. Since Antarctica
doesn't "belong" to any other country, I assume the US had to create their own
codes to use.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== hummer at isomedia.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Jackson" <Stephen_Jackson at hotmail.com>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; <SeaveyJ at edaw.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: decoding the 4-letter codes


> Hi Tweeters,
>
> After following the ongoing debate from the other side of the pond where
> this problem doesn't occur I thought that I would take a look at the list
> out of curiosity. Most of it is what you would expect, and I can understand
> the odd 'exotic' species on there given the way that some have established
> populations in the US, but can anybody explain to me why the powers that be
> have deemed it neccessary to allocate 4 letter codes to all of the worlds
> species of Penguin?! Exactly how many have occured on the ABA list? Are
> there feral populations of Emperor Penguin in the Mid-west that are being
> supressed?
>
> Please, somebody, help me out with this one!!!
>
> A very perplexed,
>
> Stephen Jackson
> Stanwell, Middlesex, UK
> stephen_jackson at hotmail.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jennifer Seavey <SeaveyJ at edaw.com>
> To: <dbagues at teleport.com>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 4:16 PM
> Subject: decoding the 4-letter codes
>
>
> If any of you remain interested in decoding the 4-letter code systems
> (reference perhaps for field work or maybe for those "refuse to use the full
> name" Tweeters postings), they can be found at:
> http://www.pwrc.nbs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> Jennifer Seavey
> Ecologist
> EDAW, Inc
> Seattle Washington
> (206) 622-1176
> email: SeaveyJ at edaw.com
> web page: www.edaw.com
>
> >>> Diane Bag??s <dbagues at teleport.com> 05/01/00 11:33PM >>>
> Re: the abbreviations: Where can one find rules for handing the
> potentially confusing combinations, such as Heermans vs. Herring gulls?
>
> Diane Bagues
> Milwaukie, Oregon
> dbagues at teleport.com
>
>
>
>