Letter code abbreviations for all Australian birds, was SFW feeding HBC,

["Philip Veerman" <>]

As is clear from this discussion, a 3 letter code does not work. 

There is a well established 4 letter code for Australian birds. It works
well with no ambiguities (apart from Brown Thornbill and Buff-rumped
Thornbill would normally both be BRTB, so the latter is BUTH instead.)

Here it is (at least for SE Aust species, which are the ones I was
interested in, as I was doing the data from Canberra, although I believe it
works for all Australian species). The column labelled as RAOU is the Atlas
number, which is the code often used to store the data. For example all of
COG's GBS data was stored by the RAOU number. 

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of John Harris
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:15 AM
To: John Tongue
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: SFW feeding HBC


White-breasted or White-browed Woodswallows and Channel-billed or
Chestnut-breasted Cuckoos?

I have been using those and similar abbreviations for years, in my note
taking much to the frustration of my fellow birdwatchers, field nats or
fiancee especially when they try to decipher my lists :-)
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