Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 07 August 2001, "Joe Codispoti" wrote: > > Each page to hold slides of a single group i.e. "birds" (or even a single species > of birds). The page would be identified with a four-letter code i.e. BIRD or > MOUN for mountains. > The four-letter code for bird species can be the US Fish & Wildlife Service's codes used when banding birds. The last two letter of the code are the first two letters of the last part of the species name, and the first two letters are derived from the first part of the species name. A few examples: Snowy Egret = SNEG Mountain Chickadee = MOCH Painted Bunting = PABU Tufted Titmouse = TUTI Purple Finch = PUFI Black-eared Bushtit = BEBU The pronunciation of some of these codes causes considerable amusement among bird banders with too much time on their hands. Doug (have you seen the TUTI in the fruit tree?) Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/