Talk:Bird codes

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There isn't an article at Alpha codes; the (bird) disambiguator isn't necessary. Would "Alpha codes" be the best title for the article (or would "banding codes"/"bird codes", both which redirect here be better). Plantdrew (talk) 22:12, 30 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Good question. Both the BBL and the IBP refer to them as alpha codes so I chose that, and then I decided to throw in "(birds)" because "Alpha codes" sounded so generic and also because none of the birders I know call them alpha codes.  But I never really liked it.  I'd love to be persuaded that "bird codes" is widely enough used for that to be legitimate.  I don't like "banding codes" because technically only the BBL codes are banding codes, the IBP codes aren't.  Thoughts? Dan Bloch (talk) 22:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I just looked at this again and decided to go with "bird codes". Dan Bloch (talk) 04:46, 22 August 2021 (UTC)