Dear all,
State Forests of NSW has had a standard list of species names abbreviations
(four characters long) used in most field surveys for EIS's and CRA's /
RFA's in NSW, and pre-harvest surveys, over the past 10 years. This list
has also been used by many external contractors over the years, and by our
regional ecologists, and thus has been thoroughly tested. As found by David
McD, there are some "double-ups" with species names, but you just have to
acknowledge these and produce a list of "exceptions to the rule".
Regards,
Rod Kavanagh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McDonald [SMTP:
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:24 PM
> To: Peter Woodall
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] SIPO's and other XXXX's
>
> The four and six digit abbreviations widely used in the USA are described
> and
> discussed by John Shipman at
> http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/nom/homepage.html .
>
> I use the four digit coding system from the US Bird Banding Lab system,
> described
> by John at http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/nom/bblrules.html . He points out
> some of
> its limitations. In the Canberra region it works fine, with just one
> collision:
> BRTH is both the Brown Thornbill and the Buff-rumped Thornbill.
>
> Yes, maybe Birds Oz should give some thought to the issue of standardised
> abbreviations.
>
> David
>
> Peter Woodall wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > N. Americans visiting here are sometimes surprised that we don't
> > have a set of standard abbreviations for our birds, as they do.
> >
> > I think many of us use an informal system, eg
> >
> > SIPO
> > BFCS - Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
> >
> > but I wonder if somebody, probably Birds Australia, should think
> > about starting a formal list that everyone could use with
> > uniform meanings.
> >
> > No doubt there would be some initial discussion/debate/biffos
> > as to the best abbreviation but a standard list would be
> > a great help when rapidly listing species in the field.
> >
> > Of course some might argue that this would hinder communication,
> > and the SIPO are a good example of this. Only some people know
> > what this means.
> >
> > Over to you
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > Dr Peter Woodall email =
>
>
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