> You can find Black Backed Three Toed Woodpeckers at Eagle Lake. We got
> tired of saying that long name or writing it out every day so we'd
> shorten it to:
>
> BB3TWP
>
> With our young fertile minds that eventually grew into:
>
> BB3TWPITTBTLINCWIPOTUS which means...
>
> Black-backed 3-Toed Woodpecker in the tree by the lake in northern
> California which is part of the United States!

kind of like saying "www" (nine syllables) to save the trouble of saying
"world wide web" (three syllables)...

Christopher E. Hill
Department of Biology
Coastal Carolina University Ph: 843.349.2567
P.O. Box 261954 Fax:843.349.2201
Conway, SC 29528 E: chill at coastal.edu

Don't become an ornithologist if you can help it.
But if you can't help it, go ahead.

Frank Chapman