Long-term monitoring of Arctic birds at the East Bay Island Field Station, within the Qaqsauqtuuq Migratory Bird Sanctuary, 1996–2023
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Northern common eider ducks ( Somateria mollissima borealis, Linnaeus, 1758) are harvested throughout their range and represent an important resource of eggs, meat, and feather down. In the 1990s, there was growing Indigenous and international concern that eiders nesting in Arctic Canada were in decline. In response, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) established a field station on a small uninhabited island in East Bay, Southampton Island (64°01′N, 81°47′W), with the intention of developing a long-term study of eider demography that could inform harvest management. Throughout the nearly three-decade duration of the East Bay Island Field Station, field logistics revolved around regional sea ice conditions and how to maintain reliable transportation and access to the island. Despite these challenges, the gradual improvement of the field station facilitated a growing breadth of research as new issues emerged, many of which were unforeseen. Here, we provide an overview of the 28 years of research, including studies on the impacts of harvest, avian disease, contaminant levels and parasitology, details of bird migration, ecological trade-offs, and predator-prey dynamics. The breadth of these research topics reflects the diversity of expertise contributed by numerous university collaborators and graduate students, as well as Inuit ingenuity and Indigenous ecological knowledge that contributed to all stages of the research program.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 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".