The Bird Banding Lab defines many status codes. Because
only a few show up in practice, we define here a
single-character code for each one. The single-character
code is used in actual data entry, and the data compiler
will translate it to the BBL's code. See the
“status” field under Section 6.13, “The encounter body section”.
Note
The data compiler checks this field only syntactically,
not semantically. Status 310, for
example, should always be used if a bird is
color-banded, but the compiler does not complain if a
bander uses status 300 on a record that
carries a color-band field.
