Coastal Dispersal by Pre-breeding African Black Oystercatchers Haematopus Moquini
Bibliographic record
Abstract
African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini high-tide roost sites were located and mapped along the Atlantic coasts of South Africa and Namibia.Nearly all roosts checked contained juvenile and/or immature, individually colour-banded birds.A series of dispersal roosts were identified along the coastline, with the largest roosts being in central Namibia.Birds forage at or near the roost sites at low tide.Of birds banded in southwestern South Africa with confirmed dispersal endpoints, 65% dispersed north of Lüderitz, Namibia (average travel distance of 1 595 km from natal site), 11% dispersed to northwestern South Africa (average travel distance 548 km), 19% dispersed within southwestern South Africa (average travel distance 141 km), and 5% dispersed eastward along the south coast of South Africa (average travel distance 237 km).At least 22% of re-sighted birds departed in their first year of life, and 25% returned in their third or fourth year of life.Body condition, sex and relative hatch date were not associated with roost site distances from natal colonies.Dispersal connectivity is weak in this species, as immature birds of different ages and origins mixed at roost sites along the dispersal route.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| 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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".