Recent Updates

  • In 2014, viewers tallied 69 chipmunks brought to the nest, along with a diversity of other prey items.
    May 7, 2018Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab!

    Do you love watching the Bird Cams? We invite you to help us create a new project called Bird Cams Lab, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around the world…

  • May 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab
  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    Disqus is an easy-to-use discussion tool that you’ll use to comment or upvote other comments in any Bird Cams Lab forum. On the forums, you’ll be able to post questions, share your thoughts, and provide links to helpful information. In…

  • An illustration to show how to choose a research question.
    May 18, 2018What Kinds of Questions Can We Investigate?

    Watching the Bird Cams can generate all kinds of questions. Some questions may have answers already based on past research. Other questions may not have answers yet—but could be answered by collecting and analyzing data from the cams. It’s those…

  • May 18, 2018How to Choose or Refine a Good Cam-Testable Question

    So you’ve identified some questions that you think could be answered with cam footage. How do you decide which ones make the best questions for an investigation?

    Would investigating the question yield new insights about birds? How excited are you…

  • June 19, 2018Wonder Board Brainstorm: Your Questions, Summarized

    From May 29 to June 5, participants posted and commented on more than 50 questions on the Wonder Board! We also received a suggestion to organize the questions by topic to make them easier to digest. To do this, the…

  • June 19, 2018Seven Cam-Testable Questions You Identified in Sorting Activity

    Thanks to 62 participants who helped sort 12 questions from the Wonder Board, we have now identified 7 questions that most think can be identified using cam footage. For a summary of results, see the graph below.

    As you can see,…

  • June 19, 2018Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Our First Q&A Session

    On June 15, 17 participants joined our Bird Cams staff for our very first live Q&A session online. We connected through a link to a Zoom webinar, and because it was our first time using this tool, our team was…

  • June 28, 2018Get Ready to Vote! Here’s a Rundown of the Seven Questions

    It’s finally time to vote on the question that you think will make for the best, most interesting investigation. A big shout-out to everyone who shared their thoughts and participated in discussions on the Question Design board. Your input was…

  • July 13, 2018An Exciting Question, and a Look Ahead

    After weeks of brainstorming, sorting, and discussing questions, we now have a winning question to investigate, based on more than 100 votes cast. Out of the seven proposed questions, the runaway winner was

    “Do the hawks use different kinds of calls…

  • Illustration of a blue jay flying to a feeder where other bird species, like the black-capped chickadee, are perched.
    February 5, 2019Battling Birds Data Collection Is Complete!

    In under a month, over 2,000 contributors classified over 10,000 clips! That’s more than 75,000 classifications! We did not expect the community to be so passionate about the project. Thank you to everyone that has become a part of the…

  • February 5, 2019Tag Data on our new Zooniverse Project “Hawk Talk”