NOTES: AN UNUSUAL HIGH COUNT OF PACIFIC LOONS FROM A FRESHWATER LAKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Abstract
In the evening (approximately 20:30) of 5 June 2004, while traveling north on the Cassiar Highway (British Columbia Route 37), we stopped at the Hodder Lake Wayside (BC 37 km 246.5), located on the west shore of Hodder Lake some 90 km north of the intersection with BC 37A at Meziadin Junction. On this roughly 10-hectare lake we saw a scattered assortment of waterfowl and an extremely large, conspicuous raft of birds. From a distance of approximately 1 km, we scoped this group and observed a uniform, very tight mass of Pacific Loons (Gavia pacifica), all of which were in definitive alternate plumage (Figure 1). Counting in blocks of ten, we conservatively estimated 1070 individuals, and we noted that during our 20 minutes of viewing this group, none of the birds appeared to be diving. Also on the lake, away from this main raft, was an aggregation of 26 Common Loons (G. immer) and four Yellow-billed Loons (G. adamsii), also all in definitive alternate plumage. During the preceding hours, while we were driving the Cassiar Highway from Stewart, British Columbia, at the head of Portland Canal and tidewater, the weather was predominantly very low overcast with scattered drizzle and patchy ground-fog. At times along this stretch of road, the cloud cover and local fog was well below the adjacent ridges (1100–2000 m). There was little wind, and visibility rarely exceeded 1 km.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.001 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".