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Record W7113377471

First Confirmed Nestings of Red-necked Grebein York Region, Ontario

2025· article· W7113377471 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAvian ecology and behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNesting (process)Nest (protein structural motif)HabitatStormStormwater
DOInot available

Abstract

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On 1 June 2019, the first recorded breeding by Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisgena) in York Region, Ontario, was established when a nest with one egg was found at the Moody Drive storm - water pond in the City of Vaughan. Although this nest was unsuccessful, a pair returned in 2020 and made another six unsuccessful nesting attempts. Also in 2020, another pair was found at the New Enterprise stormwater pond in Vaughan; they too made multiple unsuccessful nesting attempts. Both sites were reoccupied in 2021, and this time the pair at Moody Drive produced one young. In all three years, another pair of birds was also detected at Phillips Lake in Richmond Hill, also in York Region, but nesting was not confirmed. These events, following the first confirmed nesting record at a sewage lagoon in Durham Region (just east of Toronto) in 2018, involved a novel nesting habitat for this species, and perhaps a move towards usage of inland sites in southern Ontario, as opposed to sites along the Lake Ontario shore.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.115

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.159 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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