Great blue heron colonies in Saskatchewan in 1999, a preliminary inventory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Standing one metre in height, the Great Blue Heron, locally referred to as the "Blue Crane", is one of Saskatchewan's largest and most conspicuous colonial waterbirds.Yet, populations of this magnificent bird have gone largely unmonitored for the past three decades.Vermeer and Anweiler conducted the most recent province¬ wide survey of colony size and distribution in the summer of 1970.3They listed 31 active heronries ranging in size from 1 to 75 nests, distributed from the 49th to the 56th parallel.3Six years later, Roney (1976) revisited 13 of these colonies.2With the exception of two colonies found abandoned in the Qu'Appelle valley, his visit revealed no significant changes in colony size or activity from the 1970 survey.Until the summer of 1999, no other substantial initiatives had been undertaken to document colonies of this species in the province.During the spring and summer of 1999, the authors conducted a preliminary inventory of the size and location of currently and historically active Great Blue Heron colonies in Saskatchewan.For purposes of this article, "historical" or "historically active" sites include those colonies reported to be active in the past but not active at the time of the inventory.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".