Leach’s Storm-Petrels fledge on the full moon and throughout the lunar cycle
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Many seabirds are attracted to anthropogenic light, and the risk is greater for recent fledglings. Lunar phase predicts the probability of stranding, but it remains uncertain whether lunar phase is associated with when young seabirds fledge. Fledging behaviour of nocturnal, burrowing seabirds can be difficult to monitor using traditional methods but can provide insight into environmental factors that influence the risk of stranding. We used passive integrated transponder tags to monitor the fledging dates and times of Leach’s Storm-Petrel chicks from four breeding seasons at a major colony in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We also assessed whether lunar phase associated with fledging date. The median fledge time was 2.4 h after sunset (1.4 - 12.4 h). The median fledge date was 10 October, and fledging dates ranged from 13 September to 13 November. Most importantly, Leach’s Storm-Petrels chicks did fledge during the full moon. These results provide insight into why storm-petrels are less attracted to anthropogenic light during high levels of natural illumination and can be used to inform periods of higher risk for stranding, thus allowing better concentration of conservation efforts.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.003 |
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".