Ferruginous Hawk Productivity in Saskatchewan, 1969-2004
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We banded 4,034 nestlings in 1,433 successful Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regafis) nests in Saskatchewan between 1969 and 2005.The unexplained but sudden and prolonged drop in ground squirrel numbers, 1987 -1996, had a less detrimental effect on Ferruginous Hawk productivity in grassland regions over ten consecutive years than was experienced by the Swainsoh's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni; Houston and Zazelenchuk 2004, Houston 2005).METHODS Since 1969, we have concentrated on banding Ferruginous Hawks on and near nine large Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) pastures in west-central Saskatchewan between RosetoWn and the Alberta boundary.These pastures host beef cattle and are without feed lots A map of the main banding area, with plots of percent natural grassland remaining, can be found in Schmutz et al. (2001).Our study area was not completely searched and had no well-defined boundaries.Over the years, we have increased search and banding efforts with the help of pasture managers and local resident birdwatchers.Records of ground squirrel numbers in western Canada are close to non-existent.Our visual, somewhat anecdotal, observations of ground squirrel abundance and their inverse relation to fox
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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".