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

[John Harris <>]

Hi Phil,
I have used, as mentioned before, a code based on the birds name for years.
There are few ambiguities but some do exist. A Brown Thornbill (BT/b),
Buff-rumped Thornbill (BRT/b). The two woodswallows cause a bit of a
problem - White-breasted and White-browed as both could be written as WBW/s
or even WBrW/s and Long-billed Corella and Little Black Cormorant (LBC's)
but I get over this one using LtBC. It all makes sense to me anyway.........

Your codes will be worth comparing to see how much they are alike.



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Philip Veerman <>wrote:

> 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
>
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>
>
> 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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