A thought that might assist some to stir their brain (ala Pat's posting)
into action.....
A few years back when Fay and I were putting together our paper THE BIRDS OF
THE REDCLIFFE PENINSULA [_Sunbird_ 26(4) December 1996] I asked Birds
Australia (then of course the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union [RAOU
might stir up feelings in regard to abbreviations] and was duly sent a list
complied from sightings recorded by the first Atlassers. Near the top of
the list was BLACK-BELLIED STORM-PETREL.
Now, I'll leave to your imaginations the surge of excitement suddenly
rushing through our collective veins on reading this. BLACK-BELIED
STORM-PETREL in Redcliffe!!!!! I immediately asked (and paid) for the
original observers' sheets. Sure enough BBSP was there!
To cut a longer story short, it of course wasn't the storm-petrel but rather
the Broad-billed Sandpiper (BBSP) that had been observed in Redcliffe.
Someone in Melbourne has committed an ever-so-slight testicular ascendancy
with their four-lettered abrreviations.
Now if the RAOU (currently BA) can commit a BU over BBSP where does that
leave those with a lesser IQ?
Julian
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Julian Bielewicz
Past President
Queensland Ornithological Society
12 Florence Street
Kippa-Ring, Q. 4021
Australia
Tel: +61 7 3283 4921
Fax: +61 7 3889 4272
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