Well, there's an exception to every rule. After my last message, I remembered that there is at least one banding code collision in which one bird retains the "original": Bushtit is still BUSH while Buller's Shearwater becomes BULS. I guess they couldn't think of a good alternative code for Bushtit.

Later,
JOPU
Wedgwood, Seattle
g_g_allin at hotmail.com
http://www.birdtreks.com

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