Hematocrit Does Not Indicate Condition in Nestling or Adult European Starlings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hematocrit, the percentage of packed red blood cells in blood, has been used as a measure of avian condition. We investigated the relationship between hematocrit and condition in a wild, breeding population of adult European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), and their nestlings (at 5- and 11-days post hatch). Hematocrit was not correlated with condition in adults or nestlings at either 5- or 11-days post-hatch. Adult males and females had similar hematocrit values. Hematocrit increased with age; adults had significantly higher hematocrit than both 5- and 11-day old nestlings, and 11-day old nestlings had significantly higher hematocrit than when they were 5 days of age. Hematocrit was not correlated with sampling date, ambient temperature, or relative humidity level, but was positively correlated with sampling time in the day for nestlings (but not adults). Our findings caution against using hematocrit as a measure of condition in birds.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".