Retention and effects of nasal markers and subcutaneously implanted radio transmitters on breeding female Lesser Scaup
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Forty-seven wild female Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) were marked with nasal markers and radio transmitters (implanted subcutaneously on the back) just prior to breeding near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in 1999 and 2000. Retention rates of both marker types were evaluated, and their effects on specific behavior categories were assessed by comparison of marked birds with unmarked control birds. Significant effects of nasal markers on behavior were detected; females often removed vegetation from nasal markers after diving, and consequently marked females tended to shake their head more frequently than unmarked birds. No nasal markers were lost during the study. Five females lost radios, producing an average retention time of 39 d. Daily retention rate was 0.997, being 0.85 when extrapolated to 60 d. The survival rate of 42 females radio-tracked consistently was constant for six 7-d intervals, suggesting no immediate adverse effect on survival. Because the technique is invasive, use of subcutaneous transmitters may not be appropriate for all applications, but it could be a preferred alternative to other transmitter-attachment methods for short-term tracking of waterfowl.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".