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