Bird Sightings: November-december 2002
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Abstract
December, the Andrew's Point count is more than double the previous December high, and the Cape Cod count following the Christmas Day storm smashed all records for this late a date.A major and totally unprecedented incursion of Common Murres occurred at Cape Ann during December.During the spectacular flight of December 12 many were noted in mixed flocks with Razorbills, but also quite a few solid flocks of 5-25 of this species were observed, mostly after 11:00 a.m.Earlier in the morning, during a heavy movement of alcids, most flocks had to be left as "large alcid species" because of rain and resultant poor visibility.If the composition of these morning flocks could be known, there may have been more than a thousand Common Murres that passed the point that day.Normally considered rare in local coastal waters and nearshore banks, prior to this month there has never previously been a "flight" of this species in Massachusetts, and the previous high, from Provincetown last February, was of twenty-one. R. HeilRed-throated Loon 11/2 S. Quabbin 1 M. Lynch# 11/5, 25 P.I. 200, 115 R. Heil 11/13 Dennis (Corp.B.) 430 B. Nikula 11/16, 17 P'town (R.P.) 112, 385 Nikula, Trimble 11/16, 17 Rockport (A.P.) 3060, 840 R. Heil 11/17 Pittsfield 21 E. Neumuth 11/17, 18 Eastham (F.E.)1790, 1000 Trimble, Nikula 11/17 Barnstable (S.N.) 8200+ J. Trimble# 11/17 Dennis (Corp.B.) 10,080 B. Nikula# 11/22, 12/12 Rockport (A.P.) 470, 57 R. Heil 11/25 Edgartown 1000+ V. Laux 12/12 Dennis (Corp.B.) 320 P. Flood 12/14 Holyoke 1 CBC (B.Bieda) Pacific Loon (no details) * 11/2 N. Scituate 1 br R. Titus 12/15 Eastham (CGB) 1 (CBC) J. Kricher Common Loon 11/9 Westport 12 J.Hoye# 11/10 Sandwich 19 G. d'Entremont 11/16, 17 Rockport (A.P.) 186, 280 R. Heil 11/17 Pittsfield (Onota) 24 E. Neumuth 11/17 P'town (R.P.) 55 J. Trimble# 11/17 Eastham (F.E.) 85 J. Trimble# 11/17 Barnstable (S.N.) 174 J. Trimble# 11/17 Dennis (Corp.B.) 150 B. Nikula# 11/24 Quabbin 14 Hampshire
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.049 | 0.033 |
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".