Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jim was born on October 10, 1944 in Lacross, Wisconsin and passed away on December 28, 1999 in Graham, Washington. He graduated from North Dakota University with a degree in biology. He served one hitch in the U.S. Army in Japan before coming to the State of Washington where he worked as a geologist for King County and also attended classes at Western Washington University and the University of Washmgton. He eventually changed jobs and spent 10 years working for Tacoma City Light as an avian biologist. He began keeping and in 1981 he left Tacoma City Light to spend full time building the White Mountain Bird Farm, his first love. Today it is one of the top centers in the United States with youngsters being shipped around the world. Besides his lifelong love of birds, especially parrots, he was a landscaper, horticulturist, koi breeder, and an avid collector of arrowheads and other Native American artifacts. With his guidance Farm was extremely successful with Amazons, macaws, cockatoos and African Greys. His of Lilac-crowned Amazons, Amazona finscbi, through the fifth generation is certainly a major achievement. Parent-reared Moluccan Cockatoos are rare in aviculture these days but common at White Mountain. Another of his great successes was the teaching of his first hand-reared Goffin's Cockatoo - Ivory - to be a free-flying stay at home pet bird. Jim's love for Ivory was a wonder to see and it was especially unique to see Ivory's return of that love. The tricks that this parrot learned on its own were amazing. She learned to ring the front doorbell when everyone was inside then peek around the window frame to see if Jim was coming to answer. If he was, she would fly off to watch him open the door. Ivory also had a sincere dislike for crows and at the sight of one or a flock, she would take off to attack. For the opening of his small bird park Jim also had trained, using the same falconry techniques he used with Ivory, three Bare-eyed Cockatoos and was working with several Macaws. Jim constantly read books dealing with nature in all its facets and especially aspects dealing with behavioral characteristics, not only concerning birds but mammals as well. From his reading and thinking he developed his theories for the selective and domestication of parrots for the habitat of your living room. It was his lifetime project and he had perfected it by 1999 with living proof consisting of four youngsters that while being handreared began talking just 63 to 77 days after hatching. Think of that - producing pet that were talking by the time they fledged. In 1984 Jim and I founded Amazona Society in order to promote that family of birds and to bring together all Amazon breeders and others with an interest in these wonderful parrots. Jim served as treasurer from the beginning and then took over the editorship of the society's periodical which he still held upon his death. The last time I saw Jim was in Toronto at the Canadian Parrot Symposium. He was happy and we spoke about what was going on with my work in the Solomon Islands which he wanted to join next year to see the Ducorp's Cockatoo in the wild. He was really excited about the chance to see and work with these birds in the wild. Now, every time I see a Ducorp's Cockatoo in the wild I will think of Jim and our long friendship and what he has done for aviculture. It is my fervent hope that some aviculturists continue his work and expand on his effort toward breeding for the habitat of the living room. No finer tribute could be paid to a wonderful individual, a truly great parrot breeder, and a loving family man and an outstanding aviculturist. He is survived by his wonderful wife Susan, four grandchildren, four brothers, and two sisters.
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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) | 0.097 | 0.036 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".