Breeding Diet of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) in Central Alberta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Northern Saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus) nest box pellet pads were collected from Beaverhill Bird Observatory between the years 2004 and 2010. Due to the work of previous individuals, 18 of 36 pellet pads that were collected have been thoroughly dissected and analyzed for skeletal remains of prey species. The purpose of this study was to continue with the dissection of the remaining pellet pads and to identify the small mammals to the most specific taxonomic level possible based on the dentition. Identification keys were used to compare and identify the cranial elements of the small prey mammals found in the pellet pad and the minimum number of individuals (MNI) was also calculated by counting the number of right and left femur bones collected. The data collected from this study is important for gaining more insight into this mysterious yet abundant owl and to also detect if the diet of the saw-whet owl can change in response to a change in the ecosystem when compared to other pellet pads in varying landscapes. Discipline: Biology Faculty Mentor: Mark Degner
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".