Dear Tweeters,

This is a fun website. You type in a bird name, and it gives you a list of all the different species that have hybridized with it. It works in English, French, or Spanish. The only problem is that it doesn't recognize four-letter banding codes (chortle).

Good birding,

Gary Bletsch
garybletsch at yahoo.com
near Lyman, Skagit County, WA

Alain_Foss <alfosse at WANADOO.FR> wrote:
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:25:29 +0200
From: Alain_Foss
Subject: [EBN] Bird Hybrids Database
To: EUROBIRDNET at listserv.funet.fi

I forward on behalf of Serge Dumont, Montral, Qubec,
:

> Dear members of Birdchat,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce that the Bird Hybrids Database is now
> back
> online as
> an alpha version at:
>
> Bird Hybrids Database
>
> http://www.bird-hybrids.com
>
> You can now update your web links (old web sites:
> http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/2273/ or
> http://www.iquebec.com/passionplume/hybrid.htm)
>
> The database now includes 2077 different bird hybrids including 18
> trigens.
> Each hybrid is linked to at least one reference for a total of 1464
> references as of 2003-07-24.
>
> You can now search the database with english, french or latin
> (scientific)
> bird names.
> You can also search by family or in some cases by subfamily.
>
> To search, simply choose per example the Sibley or Howard nomenclature
> and
> enter a keyword, e.g. "sparrow".
> If you do not choose a nomenclature, the names of the bird hybrids
> will be
> displayed in latin.
>
> If you are interested to know more about a bird hybrid, simply click
> on the
> hybrid
> to get the relevent references about this particular hybrid.
>
> The site will be updated roughly on a monthly basis. Next update will
> be at
> the end of August.
>
> In the future, I would like to add:
>
> 1) A data entry section for collaborators.
> The database is already built for that option but this option
> is not
> yet installed.
> 2) Photos. We would like to have a section "Bird hybrid photo of the
> week"
> or
> a photo bird hybrid archives that could be linked to the
> database
> 3) A mailing list. A mailing list to permit discussions on bird
> hybrids
> 4) A logo. We are looking for a photo of an interesting bird hybrid to
> display as a logo of the web site
> 5) Name search in other languages, e.g. spanish, german, russian, etc.
> For this we would need help with tables of species in these
> particular languages in an Microsoft Excel format
>
> If you have any suggestions, regarding the web site or a particular
> hybrid,
> do not hesitate to contact me by email.
>
> Feel free to forward this message to other mailing lists.
>
> Regards,
>
> Serge Dumont
> Montral, Qubec
> dumontse at sympatico.ca



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