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

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Hi Peter,
 
That may well be a correct analysis. Any system can make a mess if it is not
checked properly. There were no doubt transcription errors in the Atlas too,
that was all based on species numbers. In this code Grey Fantail is GRFA and
Grey Falcon is GYFA. I suppose whoever built the list assumed that Grey
Fantail would be recorded abundantly and so chose to give that species the
obvious code. Whereas Grey Falcon will always be rare, so they chose the
less obvious code for it, because it requires someone to think about it only
rarely ...... if ever.........
 
Philip
 
 
-----Original Message-----From: Peter Ewin 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 5:15 PM      To:
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Cc: ? birding-aus
Subject: Letter code abbreviations for all Australian
birds, was SFW feeding HBC,


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

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