g'Day all
Thanks to those who have replied to my earlier RFI. We had some
discussion about this on birding-aus a few years back but it was never
resolved then.
I'm really looking for a list of Australian birds with 4 letter codes
to label digital photographs for electronic sorting. For me, numbers
are too hard to remember and don't give any clue to the subject (i.e.
the banders or atlas code).
Probably wishful thinking but I am looking for a broadly accepted
system, based on something like the Birds Australia "Draft Working List
of Birds of Australia and Australian Territories, 10 September 2003" or
similar. Perhaps a 4 letter code system where the family name may be
used first, followed by the species, e.g. White-fronted Chat could be
CTWF, Orange Chat could be CTOR, Northern Royal Albatross could be ALNR,
Buller's Albatross could be ALBU, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface could be
WFCB etc.
Obvious problem is that many of us have got used to some four letter
codes that won't fit a standard useful for electronic sorting, e.g. CBWF
for the Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Black-faced Cuckoo_Shrike BFCS
etc.etc. We need codes based on an accepted checklist of common names
with simple rules to deal with duplicates but so far i haven't located one.
.
Regards
Ian May
St Helens Tasmania
(03) 63761966
Mob. 0428337956
Skype: ian.may
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