Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article completes the series on Saskatchewan residents who began banding prior to 1955.Banders are presented in a roughly chronologic order of their active years of banding as shown by the dates after their name.Localities are within Saskatchewan unless stated otherwise.Edmund LaVallee, 1932 LaVallee, when living at Cupar, obtained banding permit #00245 on May 18, 1932.Schedules show that he banded only three birds that year, two House Wrens and a Black-capped Chickadee, yet he did not give up his permit until he moved to Strasbourg on July 17, 1939.The sole chickadee he banded spent two winters at the farm home of Henry Anderson, near Product post office south of Kandahar, before Anderson was able to capture it by hand and read its band number.It had traveled 80 km NNE, the greatest distance known to have been traveled by a Saskatchewan-banded chickadee.Thomas Harper, 1933Harper, -1940 Tom Harper, permit #00238, began banding west of Simpson in 1933.By 1940 he had banded 418 birds of 29 species.From these he had 12 recoveries, including a Downy Woodpecker found at a nest hole at Young, about 32 km NNW, the following March.Four Yellow-shafted Flickers were recovered: one found dead locally, one caught by a cat the same fall in Minnesota, one recovered in Louisiana, and another found dead in Texas over a year after it was banded.An American Robin drowned Tom Harper nearby.Mallards were shot in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma and two in Texas.Tom's father, Chris Harper, had come from Kendal, Westmoreland, England.Chris arrived in Davidson in April 1906; early in 1914 he and Mary Findlay, a Scots lass, were the first couple to be married in the Anglican Church in Simpson.Tom, their first child, was born on December 17 that year.The Harper farm home was 10 km south and 5 km east of the Hedlin homestead (see below).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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 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".