Turkey Vulture Marking History: the Switch from Leg Bands to Patagial Tags
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In North America, leg bands were applied to 1399 Turkey Vultures (Cathartes aura) prior to computerization of banding records in 1955, and 726 since.The switch to wing or patagial tags on adult vultures began in.1970; it gained momentum after the publication of Henckel (1976), which pointed out that damaging cement-like concretions formed around standard leg bands of any.size.Application of leg bands to adults became uncommon after 1980.A flurry of patagial tag use, as a substitute for leg bands, came almost to a halt after the 1979 season, and then resumed in 1994 -1998, by which time 528 patagial tags or wing streamers had been applied.with many nest sites under observation, to learn the extent of vulture dispersal and their age at first breeding (the only breeder of known age to date was 11 years old; Kirk and Mossman 1998).
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".