Ah, there's nothing like selective editing...

I believe I prefaced the paragraph with "As a bird bander..."
and added a statement about lack of intuitiveness to MGWA
and MAWA at the end. As a bander, I have no choice but to use
the 4-code for banders. And I suspect that if the AOU were
to go to a universal code, they'd adopt the bander's 4-code
since this is also the code used by most (but not all)
government agencies. And I suspect that any code adopted by
the AOU would be summarily ignored by everyone who learned
a different one.

In my personal notes, I use MGVW for MacGillivray's and
MAGNOLIA WARBLER!!!!! for Magnolia Warbler.

All the more reason to use 4-codes sparingly when communicating
with others.

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Scale, nature and our infinite capacity to rationalize
http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/003674.html