http://StockerPhotos.com/BirdCodes/
to reflect changes made in the 56th supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union check-List of North American birds published in 2015.
The page offers a convenient mechanism for matching English bird names, scientific bird names, 4-letter codes derived from English names, and 6-letter codes derived from scientific names. Data were downloaded from the two sources in early August 2015: the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) and the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL).
The IBP list prepared by Peter Pyle and David F. DeSante is intended to cover all birds found in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. All its entries are included in the data set.
The BBL list covers a wider variety of birds (including penguins for example) but covers fewer species. The BBL list was merged with the IBP list by matching scientific and/or English names. In cases where there was a discrepancy names from the IBP list were used. Unmatched BBL entries that included scientific names were also merged into the data set in approximate phylogenetic order. The combined list which includes some hybrids and subspecies contains 2322 entries.
Enjoy.
Bob Stocker
Denver
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