Re: TRIP REPORT- CECIL/HARFORD-VESPER SP.
Doug Couchman (atakdoug@csonline.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:14:26 -0400
> In a message dated 4/12/99 7:20:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bteetz@dc.jones.com writes:
>
> << LYL - Light Yellow Lexus (Lesser Yellowlegs)
> RLH - Real Loud Horn (Rough Legged Hawk)
> LBBG - Little Bitty Bird, Green (Lesser Black Backed Gull)
> RND - Red Necked Dogwalker (Ya got me!)
> WCS - White Crested Skiier (White Crowned Sparrow)
> SCJU - Dark Eyed Junco??? >>
>
> Y G T A!
>
> GF
> R, MD
Hate to be a pain, but according to Bird Brain, a database program
that I don't recommend unless you have a Macintosh:
LYL = African Broadbill, Smithornis capensis. The Lesser Yellowlegs
is LEYE
RLH = Dodson's Bulbul, Picnonotus dodsoni; the Rough-legged Hawk is
RLHA
RND = Yellow-necked Greenbul, Chlorocichla falkensteini
WCS = no such bird; White-crowned Sparrow is WCSP
SCJU = no such bird; Dark-eyed Junco is DEJU
It's not completely clear from the documentation that the three-letter
codes for foreign birds are universal.
Update on Ellen Paul's quiz -- the four North American birds whose
scientific names match CACA, are NOCA, CWWI, REKN, and CAQU. Each
should be easy to figure out. Try it -- it's good practice.
The first time someone used GWFG on me in an e-mail, I couldn't think
what it was other than Glaucous-winged f***ing Gull (he's on the west
coast, and we used to watch gulls together). Seriously. Sometimes
they just don't spring to mind.
Doug Couchman
atakdoug@csonline.net
Cooperstown, PA