The Birds of British Columbia Volume 4: Passerines[:] Wood-Warblers through Old World Sparrows, by R. Wayne Campbell et al.; [Review]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This hefty tome completes a series inaugurated in 1990 (see reviews of the first two volumes in Canadian Field-Naturalist 107: 547-548, 1993 and of volume 3 in Canadian Field-Naturalist 115: [187][188] 2001).The bulk of the book (pp.9-617) consists of accounts of species not covered in the first three volumes.These cover 101 species in seven passerine families (Parulidae: wood-warblers, Thraupidae: tanagers, Emberizidae: New World sparrows and allies, Cardinalidae: some grosbeaks, some buntings and Dickcissel, Icteridae: blackbirds, orioles and allies, Fringillidae: Cardueline finches and allies, and Passeridae: Old Word Sparrows).A second major section (pages 619-629) consists of mini accounts of 28 species that have been documented as occurring within British Columbia or as breeding within the province since the publication of the first two volumes (non-passerines), not the first three as stated on page 620.A final major section consists of a two-chapter synopsis (pages 631-695).Additional introductory and closing sections include a detailed, four-page acknowledgement of significant contributions as well as a six-page list of 3629 (!) contributors of records, a list of references cited, a brief index, and brief biographical details of the authors and of four additional "contributing" authors, who wrote sections of volume | (Dennis A. Demarchi) or of this volume (Richard R. Howie, Chris Siddle, and Linda M. Van Damme).Four data appendices were omitted from the book for space reasons, but are available on the World Wide Web for interested readers who have access to the internet.A brief tribute by his co-authors to Ian McTaggart-Cowan's contributions to British Columbia ornithology over his first 90 years concludes the book.As in the first three volumes, species of "regular" occurrence receive more coverage than in many other regional avifaunal works of recent decades.These accounts encompass three to 17 pages each, with text on range (generally in the world), status in British Columbia, nonbreeding and breeding status, distribution and chronology in the province, nesting details if the species breeds in British Columbia McNicholl, Martin K. 2002."The Birds of British Columbia Volume 4: Passerines[:] Wood-Warblers through Old World Sparrows, by R.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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 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".