Subject: Four-letter abbreviations
Date: May 2 12:06:48 2000
From: Michael Hobbs - Hummer at isomedia.com


Except that MacGillivray's Warbler is *not* Mac Gillivray's Warbler, so the
proper way they should have been disambiguated is MAGW and MACW, which is what
I use.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: <Sgd24 at aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Four-letter abbreviations


> 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
>
> To identify a species should not be enough to quench one's thirst,
> a proper thirst must seek to understand every facet of the bird's
> existence.
>