Mountain Birdwatch 2.0: 2010-2018
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mountain Birdwatch (MBW) 2.0 is a long-term citizen science monitoring program for 10 bird and 1 mammal species that breed in high-elevation spruce-fir forests of the northeastern United States and, formerly, southeastern Canada. Initiated in 2000 as Mountain Birdwatch 1.0, MBW provides the only region-wide source of population information on these high-elevation breeding birds. Each June, under the coordination of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, volunteers perform repeated point counts at nearly 750 long-term fixed sampling sites along hiking routes in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and eastern New York. Primary emphasis was placed on Bicknell’s Thrush, a montane-fir specialist that breeds only in the Northeastern U.S. and adjacent portions of Canada. In 2010, the program underwent many positive changes to reemerge as Mountain Birdwatch 2.0. All of the sampling locations prior to 2010 were permanently abandoned, and new sampling locations were chosen using a generalized random tessellation stratified (GRTS) procedure. For more information see: https://vtecostudies.org/projects/mountains/mountain-birdwatch/
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.578 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".