Subject: Four-letter abbreviations
Date: May 2 12:03:13 2000
From: Sgd24 at aol.com - Sgd24 at aol.com


MIchael and other tweets,
MGWA would be MacGillivray's Warbler. MAWA would be a Magnolia Warbler.
I guess this is one of those reasons of why using 4 letter codes alone could
be a problem on tweeters....... Raising adrenaline by 500% (thinking there
was a Mag. in western WA) ;).

Scott Downes
sgd24 at aol.com
Seattle WA

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