Model Card โ€” Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Single-class detection model for Red-tailed Hawk, fine-tuned from the Ultralytics YOLO26s backbone (pretrained on COCO).

Model file: yolo26s_finetuned_red_tailed_hawk_by_J.Gong_uwyo_2026-05-28.pt

Training Details

Property Value
Base model yolo26s.pt (COCO pretrained, Ultralytics)
Architecture YOLO26s
Input size 640 ร— 640
Epochs 150
Optimizer MuSGD, lr=0.002, momentum=0.9
Augmentation mosaic=1.0, degrees=10ยฐ, scale=0.5, fliplr=0.5, hsv_h/s/v
Device NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation (32 GB, CUDA 12.8)
Training date 2026-05-28
Author Jian Gong, University of Wyoming

Dataset

Images sourced from iNaturalist (research-grade observations). Bounding boxes generated by MegaDetector v5a (confidence โ‰ฅ 0.15). Split 80 / 10 / 10 train / val / test.

Split Images
train 236
val 29
test 30

Performance

Evaluated on the held-out validation set (best checkpoint).

Metric Value
mAP50 0.9592
mAP50-95 0.8620

Usage

from ultralytics import YOLO
model = YOLO("models/red_tailed_hawk/yolo26s_finetuned_red_tailed_hawk_by_J.Gong_uwyo_2026-05-28.pt")
results = model.predict("image.jpg", conf=0.25)
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