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  • A male pileated woodpecker is in the middle on a suet feeder and a male northern cardinal is perch below and to its left looking up. There is a feeder table with seeds below the pilated woodpecker, a feeder tue to its left, and other animal critter feeders hung around the edges of the screenshot.
    February 9, 2021A New Investigation!

    Join us to watch the Cornell FeederWatch cam, located just outside the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and learn more about the birds that visit the feeders.

    For this investigation, we’ll work together to identify what question we want to answer and…

  • 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…

  • Illustration of a blue jay flying to a feeder where other bird species, like the black-capped chickadee, are perched.
    August 24, 2019Battling Birds: From Zooniverse to Here

    What actually goes on at your backyard bird feeder? Do the birds get along or do they fight? If you take a moment to watch your feeder, you might notice that it isn’t just peace and harmony, but some birds…

  • A feeding table with rice and half-cut oranges that are yellow. Over head are two hooks with banana bunches. There is also a nectar hanging. A Rufous motmot (large yellow-green, blue bird) is perched in the front right corner o the table. A gray-headed chachalaca (large gray-brown bird) is perched on a vine that runs horizontally across the screen. The backdrop are large green leaves and a couple tree trunks.
    June 23, 2021Battling Birds: Panama Edition Final Report

    Inspired by community interest in previous Bird Cams Lab investigations about aggressive interactions between birds at feeders, we collaborated with Dr. Eliot Miller to learn more about the social relationships among the birds seen on the Panama Fruit Feeder…

  • An illustration of a Rufous Motmot battling a Chestnut-headed Oropendola.
    December 8, 2020Battling Birds: Panama Edition Launches

    Join the Bird Cams Lab community in the newest investigation, Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Just like the first Battling Birds investigation, we want to learn more about what birds are doing at a feeder. However, this time we’ll virtually be…

  • A feeding table with rice and half-cut oranges that are yellow. Over head are two hooks with banana bunches. There is also a nectar hanging. A Rufous motmot (large yellow-green, blue bird) is perched in the front right corner o the table. A gray-headed chachalaca (large gray-brown bird) is perched on a vine that runs horizontally across the screen. The backdrop are large green leaves and a couple tree trunks.
    June 23, 2021Battling Birds: Panama Findings Are In!

    The Bird Cams Lab community joined forces with Cornell Lab of Ornithology researcher Dr. Eliot Miller to better understand the social relationships between birds visiting a feeder in Panama seen on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam….

  • A scatter plot of points in which each color refers to a species in a dominance hierarchy. This is only a close up of the graph to represent the blog post in which the graph is included.
    April 12, 2021Bigger The Bird, Bigger The Punch

    On the Cornell Lab’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam, there are dozens of charismatic bird species who visit a feeding table filled with fruit and rice. Staff at the Canopy Lodge, where the feeding table is located, have to restock it…

  • A line graph with three different colored lines each referring to a study species. Hour is on the horizontal axis from 5 to 19 and percentage chance species is present is on the vertical axis from 0 to 100. For all species except Northern Cardinal, the percentage chance increases as the morning advances and then decreases in the afternoon. The exact shape of this curved shape varies by species, but is the general pattern. The other species are grayed out and only the American Goldfinch, Black-capped chickadee, and Blue Jay are shown.
    June 22, 2021Birds Don’t Check The Temperature Before Visiting The Feeder

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we have shared visualizations that highlight (1) the sampling effort (i.e., amount of time watched) and (2) when the study species visited the feeding station. This second set of visualizations helped us start to…

  • Snowy hanging feeder and platform feeder with a frozen pond in the background. An American Goldfinch and a Red-bellied Woodpecker are in view.
    February 22, 2021Birds, Feeders, and Science Oh My! What Can We Discover Together?

    Tune in to learn more about the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch cam and Cornell Feeders Live, Bird Cams Lab’s newest scientific investigation that is already underway! Right now, the Bird Cams Lab community is in the…

  • January 22, 2020Changing Vocalizations

    Last week we found out that when nestling were vocalizing, they were also primarily being fed or the adult was brooding. This week, we’ll dig deeper into both nestling and adult vocalizations to see if and how they change over…

  • May 27, 2020Collect New Data On Nestlings

    Have you watched the Cornell Hawks cam recently? The nestlings are growing up so fast! Last week we launched data collection for the newly named Hawk Happenings investigation.

    52 people have collected 305 observations!

    Today, we’ve switch the data collection buttons about…