I get confused by other people's acronyms but still like using my own for
efficiency. ISTM (see list below if you need this translated) that
in any specialisation (like birds) there is a good case for acronym use,
just as for other non-acronymised jargon . But if acronyms are
used, there needs to be a list for people to fall back on when
completely stumped.
Here (below and attached) is a first draft acronym list. It
includes likely bird names from the local list, some organisational
stuff, institutions, some local bird locations, books etc. There is
plenty of scope for additions (and corrections) notably some botanical
abbreviations.
I'm not aiming at all to specify what acronyms people should use, it is
designed to work the other way - if you see an acronym hopefully it will
be here. To that end for some terms I've included more than one
acronym to cover users' personal style eg. YRT and YRTB to cover
Yellow-rumped Thornbill. Equally, there is no attempt to include
the various punctuations that could be used like hyphens and apostrophes
or combinations of caps and smalls. The letters should be enough
and punctuation will be an added comprehension bonus if
included.
If anyone has other acronyms that have caused them trouble I'm happy to
receive and incorporate them, resort and repost. I'm also happy to hand
it over to others who want to improve or maintain it or put it in some
handy location. Many email lists issue a routine post once a week or
month with FAQs -- we could do that with this, or it could go on the
website. Or both or something else.
In the short term feel free to send me corrections and
additions.
Apologies to those who don't receive this in the fixed-space font I
chose, it will be difficult to read. It's attached in MS Word
format as well, just in case.
AAB
Atlas of Australian Birds
AB Apostlebird,
Australasian Bittern
ABA Australian Bird
Atlas(?)
ABR Annual Bird Report - one
issue of COG's CBN
AF Azure
Kingfisher
AG Australasian
Grebe
AH Australian
Hobby
AM Australian
Magpie
ANBG Australian National Botanic
Gardens
AP Richard's Pipit,
Australian Pipit
AR Australian
Raven
AS Australian Shelduck,
Australasian Shoveler
ASC Australian Spotted
Crake
AWD Australian Wood Duck
AWI Australian White
Ibis
BA Birds Australia -
what used to be Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU)
BB Brush Bronzewing,
BowerBird
BBD Blue-billed Duck
BBR Buff-banded Rail
BC Baillon's Crake,
Brush Cuckoo
BCHE Black-chinned Honeyeater
BD (Pacific) Black
Duck
BEC Black-eared Cuckoo
BF Brown Falcon, Black
Falcon, Beautiful Firetail
BFC Black-faced Cormorant
BFCS Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
BFD Black-fronted
Dotterel
BFHE Blue-faced Honeyeater
BFM Black-faced Monarch
BG Brown Goshawk, Brown
Gerygone
BHE Black Honeyeater
BHHE Brown-headed Honeyeater
BK Black Kite
BLW Banded Lapwing
BM Bell Miner
BNS Black-necked Stork
BO Barking Owl, Barn
Owl
BOP Bird(s) of Prey
BQ Brown Quail
BRT Buff-rumped
Thornbill
BRTB Buff-rumped Thornbill
BS Black Swan, Brown
Songlark
BSC Bush Stone-curlew
BSK Black-shouldered
Kite
BSL Brown Songlark
BT Brown Treecreeper,
Brown Thornbill, Bassian Thrush
BTB Brown Thornbill
BTC Brown Treecreeper
BTW By the way
BWP Blue-winged Parrot
BWS Black-winged
Stilt
C&B Christidis &
Boles (authors of Taxonomic books and studies)
CB Common Blackbird,
Common Bronzewing
CB Callum Brae,
Canberra
CBB Common Blackbird
CBC Channel-billed
Cuckoo
CBG Cape Barren Goose
CBM Chestnut-breasted
Mannikin
CBN Canberra Bird Notes -
COG's quarterly publication
CBW Common Bronzewing
CC Crimson Chat
CE Cattle Egret
CG Common
Greenshank
CHE Crescent Honeyeater
CK Common Koel
CM Common Myna
CP Crested Pigeon
CP Campbell Park
CR Crimson Rosella
CRH Chestnut-rumped
Heathwren
CRT Chestnut-rumped
Thornbill
CRTB Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
CRW Clamorous
Reed-Warbler
CS Collared
Sparrowhawk, Common Starling, Curlew Sandpiper
CSH Collared Sparrowhawk
CST Crested Shrike-tit
CT Chestnut
Teal
DBF Double-barred Finch
DBP Double-banded Plover
DD Diamond Dove
DF Diamond
Firetail
DM Dusky Moorhen
DW Dusky
Woodswallow
DWS Dusky
Woodswallow
EC Eurasian Coot
EG European Goldfinch,
European Greenfinch
EGF European Goldfinch,
European Greenfinch
ER Eastern Rosella
ES Eastern
Spinebill
ESB Eastern Spinebill
ETS Eurasian Tree
Sparrow
EW Eastern
Whipbird
EWB Eastern Whipbird
EYR Eastern Yellow
Robin
FH Fuscous
Honeyeater
FM Fairy Martin
FR Flame Robin
FTC Fan-tailed Cuckoo
FTS Fork-tailed Swift
FWIW For what its worth
GB Grey
Butcherbird
GBB Grey Butcherbird
GBC Glossy
Black-Cockatoo
GBS Garden Bird Survey
GC Grey Currawong,
Great Cormorant
GCB Grey-crowned Babbler
GCG Great Crested Grebe
GE Great Egret
GF Grey Fantail, Grey
Falcon, Guinea Fowl
GG Gang-gang Cockatoo,
Grey Goshawk
GG Gang-gang - COG's
monthly newsletter
GGC Gang-gang Cockatoo
GHC Golden-headed
Cisticola
GI Glossy Ibis
GST Grey Shrike-thrush
GT Grey Teal
GW Golden
Whistler
HANZAB Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and
Antarctic Birds - the bird-info book that we'd all like to
own.
HBC Horsfield's
Bronze-Cuckoo
HBW Handbook of the Birds of
the World
HE Honeyeater
HH Hardhead
HHG Hoary-headed Grebe
HR Hooded Robin
HS House
Sparrow
IBA Important Bird Area
ID Inland Dotterel
IE Intermediate
Egret
ISTM It seems to me
JW Jacky
Winter
KP (Australian)
King-Parrot
LB Little Bittern
LBC Little Black Cormorant,
Long-billed Corella
LBG Lake Burley-Griffin
LBQ Little Button-quail
LC Little Corella
LE Little Eagle, Little
Egret
LF Leaden Flycatcher,
Little Friarbird
LG Little
Grassbird
LG Lake
Ginninderra
LHE Lewin's Honeyeater
LK Laughing
Kookaburra
LL Little Lorikeet
LPC Little Pied
Cormorant
LR Little Raven,
Lewin's Rail
LS Latham's Snipe
LW Little
Wattlebird
LWB Little Wattlebird
LWK Letter-winged
Kite
MB Mistletoebird
MD Musk Duck
MF Mulligan's Flat
MFF Mixed Feeding Flock
ML Magpie-lark, Masked
Lapwing, Musk Lorikeet
MLW Masked Lapwing
MM Michael Morcombe
(field guide author)
MMC Major Mitchell's
Cockatoo
MMFF Mini Mixed Feeding Flock
MO Masked Owl
MP Mulga
Parrot
NF Noisy Friarbird
NHHE New Holland Honeyeater
NK Nankeen Kestrel
NLA NationalLibrary of
Australia
NM Noisy Miner
NNH Nankeen Night
Heron
OBO Olive-backed Oriole
ONJ (Australian)
Owlet-nightjar
OW Olive
Whistler
PB Pied
Butcherbird
PBB Pied Butcherbird
PBD Pacific Black Duck
PBQ Painted Button-quail
PC Pied Currawong,
Pallid Cuckoo, Pied Cormorant
PCL Purple-crowned Lorikeet
PD Peaceful Dove
PED Pink-eared Duck
PF Peregrine Falcon,
Painted Firetail
PGP Pacific Golden
Plover
PHE Painted Honeyeater
PK, P&K Pizzey and Knight (field guide)
PO Powerful Owl
PR Pink Robin
PS Purple Swamphen
PSW Purple Swamphen
PW Plains-wanderer
RBE Rainbow Bee-eater
RBF Red-browed Finch
RBKF Red-backed Kingfisher
RBT Red-browed
Treecreeper
RBTC Red-browed Treecreeper
RCP Red-capped Plover
RCR Red-capped Robin
RF Rufous Fantail,
Restless Flycatcher
RG Red Goshawk
RHE Regent Honeyeater
RKD Red-kneed Dotterel
RL Rainbow
Lorikeet
RNS Red-necked Stint
RP Richard's Pipit,
Australian Pipit
RP Rarities Panel
RR Rose Robin
RRP Red-rumped Parrot
RS Rufous Songlark,
Royal Spoonbill
RSL Rufous Songlark
RTBC Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
RW Red Wattlebird,
Rufous Whistler, Rock Warbler
RWB Red Wattlebird
SB Satin Bowerbird,
Southern Boobook, Singing Bushlark
SBB Satin Bowerbird
SBC Shining
Bronze-Cuckoo
SBL Scaly-breasted
Lorikeet
SC Spotless Crake,
Spotted Crake (hmmmm!)
SCC Sulphur-crested
Cockatoo
SCHE Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
SD, S&D Simpson & Day (field guide)
SF Satin
Flycatcher
SFW Superb Fairy-wren
SG Silver Gull
SH Swamp Harrier
SHE Scarlet Honeyeater,
Striped Honeyeater, Singing Honeyeater
SKF Sacred Kingfisher
SL Superb Lyrebird
SNI Straw-necked Ibis
SP Superb Parrot, Swift
Parrot
SP Sewerage Pond (as in
Fyshwick SP)
SPP Spotted Pardalote
SQ Stubble Quail
SQT Spotted Quail-thrush
SR Scarlet Robin
ST Striated Thornbill,
Song Thrush
STB Striated Thornbill
STD Spotted Turtle-Dove
STK Square-tailed Kite
STP Striated Pardalote
STS Sharp-tailed
Sandpiper
SW Speckled Warbler,
Southern Whiteface
TCHE Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
TD, T&D Taylor & Day (CB field guide)
TF Tawny Frogmouth
TFM Tawny Frogmouth
TM Tree Martin
TP Turquoise
Parrot
VS Varied
Sittella
WBB White-browed Babbler
WBCS White-bellied
Cuckoo-shrike
WBS White-browed Scrubwren,
White-backed Swallow
WBSE White-bellied Sea-Eagle
WBSW White-browed Scrubwren
WBW White-browed
Woodswallow
WBWS White-browed Woodswallow
WD (Australian) Wood
Duck
WEHE White-eared Honeyeater
WFC White-fronted Chat
WFH White-faced Heron
WFHE White-fronted Honeyeater
WG Western
Gerygone
WHP White-headed Pigeon
WI White Ibis
WK Whistling Kite
WNH White-necked Heron
WNHE White-naped Honeyeater
WP Wonga Pigeon
WPHE White-plumed Honeyeater
WS Welcome Swallow
WT Whiskered Tern
WTE Wedge-tailed Eagle
WTG White-throated
Gerygone
WTN White-throated
Needletail, White-throated Nightjar
WTNJ White-throated Nightjar
WTNT White-throated Needletail
WTT White-throated
Treecreeper
WTTC White-throated
Treecreeper
WW Willie Wagtail
WWC White-winged Chough
WWT White-winged
Triller
YBS Yellow-billed
Spoonbill
YFHE Yellow-faced Honeyeater
YR Yellow Rosella,
(Eastern) Yellow Robin
YRT Yellow-rumped
Thornbill
YRTB Yellow-rumped Thornbill
YT Yellow
Thornbill
YTB Yellow Thornbill
YTBC Yellow-tailed
Black-Cockatoo
YTHE Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
YTM Yellow-throated Miner
ZF Zebra
Finch
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