If I may inject a little humor ... when I first saw Eur Collared Dove, I
read it as Fur-Collared Dove. But I did get it cleared up quickly.

Mary Ann Chapman
Seattle

At 08:10 AM 7/13/2005, sgmlod at aol.com wrote:
>Greetings All
>
>I thought 4 letter codes were banned by the FCC; didn't Howard Stern get
>fined for using them?
>
>I try to mention the species name in full first (though note, I felt Eur
>Collared Dove transmitted the idea of Eurasian Collared-Dove adequately in
>my recent post) and then use a four letter code (or in the case of
>collared doves, gasp, ECD) later. Yes, I'm doing this because it's
>convenient for me. Yes, that's selfish. On the other hand, I could just
>not post at all, as some I know have chosen to do.
>
>Long lists of four letter codes are tedious. So are long list of boring
>common birds from expected places -- to me anyway. I use that great key
>entitled DELETE when I encounter such.
>
>So for all those who find 4 letter codes offensive, you've got that
>wonderful button at your disposal (and for Stern and the like, there's
>that dial on the radio).
>
>God I love rehashing this every summer. Almost as fine a tradition as the
>All-Star Game and hot dogs.
>
>Best Wishes
>Steven Mlodinow (STML)
>Everett, WA (WA= Washington)
>
>
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