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Pearson's 'tales from Birdland'

2024· article· W7153679745 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
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VenueDigital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · 2024
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeNatural (archaeology)Natural historyCharm (quantum number)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Townsend's ' In Audubon's Labrador.' •-Dr.Townsend has written so many interesting accounts of the life and natural history of the Labrador coast that we have come to associate his name instinctively with the wild, rugged north-land which he so delights to tell us about.To those who are familiar with his previous books the announcement of another volume will mean another treat in store for them.The volume in question however, has an added charm in the fact that the course of the writer on this trip followed that of Audubon on his famous voyage of 1833.Stops were made at the same points, the same localities were visited, the same birds were studied and in several instances descendants of the very people whom Audubon visited were met with.The first chapter gives a brief resum• of Audubon's trip, with appropriate quotations from his diary and some account of the men who were associated with him.Then follows the narrative of the voyage of Dr. Tdwnsend and his companion Mr. Harold St. John, the botanist, from Natashquan •o Blanc Sablon, while two chapters on the conservation of wild life in Labrador, and on the protection of the Eider, the latter of which appeared originally in ' The Auk ' for 1904, complete the main text of the volume.There is however an appendix consisting of letters from George C. Shadtuck, Jr., who accompanied Audubon, from his father, from B. Lincoln, brother of another member of the party, and from Audubon himself, all of which relate to the famous expedition.Dr. Townsend•s narrative is written in a delightful style giving one a vivid picture of the country and its inhabitants, while the pages teem with ornithological matter including many original observations on bird habits.The illustrations are half-tone reproductions of photographs of localities, general scenery, birds and plants as well as portraits of many of the persons mentioned in the text.A map of the coast of Labrador with the routes of the two expeditions recalls to mind the comparatively small portion of •he coast which Audubon visited, and the fact tha• it lay entirely on the southern side of the peninsula bordering on the Straits of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.A good index completes this attractive volume.--W.S. Pearson's ' Tales from Birdland.' 2_ With the constantly increasing interest in bird study there is a steady demand for bird books, not only for the advanced student, bu• for the little folks as well, and probably there is no better way to arouse a lasting interest in birds in the child than to tel/ him stories which are woven about the personality of some imaginary bird hero.As a contribution to this class of bird books Mr. Pearson has just • In Audubon's Labrador.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.082
Threshold uncertainty score0.164

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0260.007

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.175
Teacher spread0.152 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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