Breeding status and notes on diet of the northern saw-whet owl at Delta Marsh, Manitoba
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Northern Saw-whet Owls breed in forests throughout southern Canada, northern and western United States, and some mountainous areas of Mexico.6At Delta Marsh, Manitoba, saw-whet owls have been considered rare to uncommon from spring through fall.8 13 Recently, a mist-netting program run by the Delta Marsh Bird Observatory has shown them to be common fall migrants.10We present observations that confirm breeding of saw-whet owls at Delta Marsh and identify prey items taken from pellets collected at a single roost site. Breeding Season ObservationsData from the Prairie Nest Records Scheme indicate that saw-whet owl nests are active in Manitoba from March through July.Although the timing of pair formation is poorly known,6 breeding activity likely begins some time earlier than the first activity recorded at nests.Eight sightings of single adult saw-whet owls roosting have been recorded during or just prior to the breeding season at Delta Marsh: 22 February 1988 (K. A.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.002 | 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 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".