Bird Codes

I rely on this app (ver. 2.2) as the quickest way to search for band codes and proper scientific names but it is out-of-date. It could benefit from adding new US birds (accepted vagrants) and a taxonomy update, reflecting splits: - Western Scrub-Jay to California and Woodhouse’s in 2016; - Clapper Rail to Clapper and Ridgway’s in 2014; - genus split for the North American cormorants in 2021. - et al.

CEWA was my first. More recently NOSH surprised me. So many wrens it was bound to happen, so we skip CAWR. It takes time ( maybe many years) to encounter them. So it would be nice if the app displayed species in conflict when you enter a guess that’s not a legitimate code.

No bells and whistles. Just exactly what you need to confirm a banding code.

Names and codes need to be updated regularly. These are not, so it’s useless.

Next time you want to make sure you’re not crazy, that there isn’t anything normally called a YHBB or a CEWA, you can check here instantly. One thing well.

There really is an app for everything..

Great app, please update for larger screen.

Especially good for people who make up codes when posting their sightings. Using codes is controversial, but if you are going to do it you should use the correct code. Not all of them are obvious because of duplications.

A comprehensive, user-friendly solution.

Since learning about these codes I've been using them to both enter sightings more rapidly in eBird and to code my photos.