AOU Banding Codes and Species Names

Code Common name
AMAV American Avocet
AMCO American Coot
AMPI American Pipit
AMWI American Wigeon
AWPE American White Pelican
BBPL Black-bellied Plover
BCNH Black-crowned Night-Heron
BEKI Belted Kingfisher
BEVI Bell's Vireo
BNST Black-necked Stilt
BOGU Bonaparte's Gull
BRAC Brandt's Cormorant
BRPE Brown Pelican
BUFF Bufflehead
BVSH Black-vented Shearwater
BWTE Blue-winged Teal
CAAU Cassin's Auklet
CAGU California Gull
CANG Canada Goose
CANV Canvasback
CATE Caspian Tern
CITE Cinnamon Teal
COGA Common Gallinule
COLO Common Loon
DCCO Double-crested Cormorant
DUNL Dunlin
EAGR Eared Grebe
ELTE Elegant Tern
FOTE Forster's Tern
GADW Gadwall
GBHE Great Blue Heron
GREG Great Egret
GRHE Green Heron
GRYE Greater Yellowlegs
GWFG Greater White-fronted Goose
GWTE Green-winged Teal
HEEG Heermann's Gull
HOGR Horned Grebe
HOME Hooded Merganser
HOSP House Sparrow
KILL Killdeer
LBCU Long-billed Curlew
LBDO Long-billed Dowitcher
LESA Least Sandpiper
LESC Lesser Scaup
LETE Least Tern
LEYE Lesser Yellowlegs
MAGO Marbled Godwit
MALL Mallard
MAWR Marsh Wren
NOHA Northern Harrier
NOPI Northern Pintail
NSHO Northern Shoveler
OSPR Osprey
PALO Pacific Loon
PBGR Pied-billed Grebe
RBGU Ring-billed Gull
RBME Red-breasted Merganser
REDH Redhead
RIRA Ridgway's Rail
RNPH Red-necked Phalarope
ROYT Royal Tern
RTLO Red-throated Loon
RUDU Ruddy Duck
RWBL Red-winged Blackbird
SAND Sanderling
SBDO Short-billed Dowitcher
SEPL Semipalmated Plover
SNEG Snowy Egret
SORA Sora
SOSH Sooty Shearwater
SPSA Spotted Sandpiper
SUSC Surf Scoter
TRBL Tricolored Blackbird
VIRA Virginia Rail
WCGR Western Grebe or Clark's Grebe hybrid
WEGU Western Gull
WESA Western Sandpiper
WFIB White-faced Ibis
WHIM Whimbrel
WILL Willet
WIPH Wilson's Phalarope
WISN Wilson's Snipe
YBCH Yellow-breasted Chat