Biology and management of wood ducks in Missouri (2017)
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ood ducks (Aix sponsa) are one of Missouri's most beautiful water birds (Figures 1a and1b) and are found throughout the state.Adult males have a large purple and green crested head and a burgundy chest with white flecks.This colorful plumage is most noticeable during the breeding season.Adult females are gray brown with a distinct white, teardrop-shaped eye ring.Both sexes have short wings, 8 to 9 inches long, with iridescent purple patches.Adults weigh about 1 pounds and are about 20 inches long.They are commonly found in forested and woodland habitats near or next to creeks, sloughs, ponds and streams.They also use forested areas that are flooded.Thanks to conservation efforts, the wood duck population has rebounded from low numbers in the early 20th century.Unregulated sport and commercial hunting in the spring contributed to the population decline, as did the conversion of wood ducks' habitat into other land uses.Passage of the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 protected many species, including wood ducks.Hunting was restricted from 1918 through 1941, while waterfowl biologists and landowners increased research and management efforts.The development of nest boxes, which provided wood ducks with artificial cavities for nesting, along with the establishment of regulated hunting seasons, have been key to helping increase wood duck populations across their range. Range and Life HistoryThe wood duck's breeding range extends over much of North America, from Nova Scotia west through Canada and from northern portions of the United States south to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.Although wood ducks can be found year-round in southern Missouri, most migrate south in the fall and return to breed in February and March as temperatures warm.The first wood ducks that return to Missouri usually arrive in small flocks.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 it