I know there are lots of records from a government dataset in NSW of Grey
Falcon from the northern tableands and coast. However, I always suspect the
problem was that they used a 4 letter code and there was a recording or
transcription error when the species involved actually was a Grey Fantail.
Cheers,
Peter
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:21:53 +1100
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Letter code abbreviations for all Australian
> birds, was SFW feeding HBC,
>
> 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On Behalf Of John Harris
> > Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:15 AM
> > To: John Tongue
> > Cc: Birding Aus
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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