Fall migration decisions of northern saw-whet owls at an ecological barrier
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Migration is a perilous undertaking for any organism, and is often only undertaken within a restricted range of intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors. The added risk of crossing an ecological barrier such as a large body of water means that migratory decisions based on these factors become more crucial for survival than they would be otherwise. Aside from limited data garnered from banding-recapture studies, little was previously known about migratory habits of northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus), especially with respect to how they navigated large expanses of water such as the Gulf of Maine. Between 12 October 2015 and 10 November 2015, 26 saw-whet owls were captured at two NS sites using mist nets, banded, and fitted with very high frequency (VHF) radio-transmitters. Using data downloaded from receiver towers long the coastlines of Canada's Maritime Provinces and the northeastern United States, I tracked individual saw-whet owls as some moved throughout mainland NS, some remained in the same general area where they were originally tagged , and some migrated directly over the Gulf of Maine. The latter results provide insights into a previously unknown feat of migration by a small (80 to 120g) nocturnal raptor.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".