Subject: 4 Letter Bird Codes
Date: Nov 29 20:25:14 2001
From: Douglas Canning - dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org


On 29 Nov 2001, Ilene Samowitz wrote:

> I am currently building a backyard bird count access database and I
> want to include the 4 letter codes for the birds. Is there a method
> of determining the correct codes or a reference on the web that I can
> use?

John Shipman has a wonderful collection of essays on the various four
letter code systems in use at

http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/nom/

including the Bird Banding Lab System and the Breeding Bird Survey, as well
identification of all the "collisions" of real bird names which result in
identical four letter codes.


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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