Bibliographic record
Abstract
lobal warming is expected to hasten spring migration, and the ever-earlier arrival dates of Gray Kingbird and Black-whiskered Vireo in the Bahamas support that prediction.The number of new latest departure dates from Guadeloupe appears to conflict with the prediction but may be ascribed to more thorough coverage and reporting.Spring is a nesting season in our Region, and there are reports of early nesting by Piedbilled Grebes and Ospreys and of ground-nesting by Bahama Mockingbirds.Venezuelan ornithologists surveyed a huge tern colony on Aves Island this season.A severe late-winter storm moving up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States in mid-April brought record numbers of Eastern Kingbirds and Summer and Scarlet Tanagers to Bermuda.The Bahamas also had an unusually large number of Scarlet Tanagers.Seawatches at Guadeloupe provided most of the seabird records for the Region, and large numbers of moorhens, coots, and swallows were found on that island.Rarities for the season included Ross's Goose (Bahamas), Garganey (Guadeloupe and Bermuda), Gray Heron (Bermuda), Little Egrel (Martinique and Antigua), White Stork (Martinique; older record), Great Black-backed Gull (Nevis), Short-eared Owl (Bahamas), White-collared Swift (Guadeloupe), and Orchard Oriole (Bahamas).Birding tours of Dominican Republic and the Lesser Antilles enabled participants to see the endangered endemics of those islands; only a few highlights are listed here.We are still looking for res-ident reporters from both the Greater and Lesser Antilles (except for Guadeloupe).GEESE THROUGH FALCONS The Canada Goose at Reef G.C., Grand Bahama was last reported 3 Mar (BP).An imm.Canada Goose was seen at Spittal Pond and Princess Pond, Bermuda 5-15 Apr (DBW, AD), while another flew over Spittal Pond 16 May (KR).The Ross's Goose that wintered at Reef G.C. was last seen 17 Mar (EG).Some 102 West Indian Whistling-Ducks were at Bethesda Dam, Antigua 29 Apr (JP, AO); only 8 were at McKinnon Salt Pond, Antigua 17-18 Apr (JVG et al.).In the Bahamas, 2 ads.with 3 young were at Tarpon Pond, Andros 6 May (CW, ALa), and another pair flew over Georgetown Harbour, Great Exuma 15 May (LK).A male Mallard at Fortune Bay, Grand Bahama 5 May (BP) was unusual.An American Wigeon was on Port Royal G.C., Bermuda 14 Mar (IF, PW).A White-cheeked Pintaft was found at Reef G.C. 12 May+ (EG, ph.NB, m.ob.).Surprisingly, this is the first report of this species from Grand Bahama.Two male Garganeys were at Gaschet Res., Guadeloupe 8 Mar (JF).A male at Jubilee Rd. 19-23 Apr (DW) and a female at Spittal Pond 7-26 May (EA, DBW) provided Bermuda's 3rd and 4th records of Garganey.A pair of Green-winged Teal was at Gaschet Res. 9 Mar (AL), and a Eurasian Teal was at Jubilee Rd., Bermuda 20 Mar (IF, PW).A Lesser Scaup and a Ringnecked Duck at Gaschet Res. 4 May were the latest ever seen on Guadeloupe (FD).A Redbreasted Merganser was in Great Sound, Bermuda 24 Apr (AD).At Gaschet Res., there were counts of 16 Masked Ducks 9 Mar (FD) and 86 Ruddy Ducks 26 Mar (AL).A Piedbilled Grebe with young at Reef G.C., Grand Bahama 3 Mar was indicative of early nesting (BP) FD found 109 Pied-billed Grebes at Gaschet Res.16 Apr.Seawatches from Guadeloupe continue to provide the majority of seabird sightings for the Region, but a watch from Bermuda also had interesting sightings (Table 1).Seventeen Sooty Shearwaters passing Cooper's Pt., Bermuda [7 Mar (IF) were the earliest ever recorded by at least three weeks.Manx Shearwater passage peaked on the same day at 2 birds per minute.Poor weather hampered seabirding from fishing boats off Abaco; nevertheless, on 4 May EB saw a Black-capped Petrel, 3 Corys Shearwaters, 4 Greater Shearwaters, and a Sooty Shearwater e. of Abaco.On 17 May up to 16 kin e. of Tilloo Cay, EB and TW found small flocks totaling about 50 Audubon• Shearwaters that also contained 4 Cory• Shearwaters and a Black-capped Petrel, while the next day, TW saw a lone Wilson• Storm-Petrel off Elbow Cay.Approximately 25 White-tailed Tropicbirds were seen around Castle Rock, Acklins I., Bahamas 6-8 May; the Location Cooper's Pt., Pointe des (h&teaux, Petite-Terre N.R., Petite
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.065 | 0.016 |
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".