July 8, 2021Wrapping Up the Final Investigation!Thanks to all participants who contributed to the Cornell Feeders Live investigation for Bird Cams Lab, we are on track to release a final report showcasing the community’s findings soon. If you would like to help review a draft of…
June 19, 2018Wonder Board Brainstorm: Your Questions, SummarizedFrom 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…
September 9, 2019Who’s Winning?Last week we figured out who is battling it out at the feeders–which species are initiating displacements and which are being targeted. This week we’ll explore one more facet of these displacements–whether or not displacement attempts were successful.
Click here…
September 2, 2019Who’s Battling?Last week we looked at how the number of species at a feeder relates to how much conflict ensues. Now let’s dig into the details to find out which species are battling it out!
Today’s featured visualization shows how many total…
October 2, 2020When were (or weren’t) we watching?In the midst of the pandemic this past summer, the community came together and connected with nature by collecting data on the Cornell Lab’s Red-tailed Hawk cam. From May to June, over 320 people collected data to better understand the…
January 16, 2020What’s Happening When Hawks Vocalize?Welcome to the first week of Hawk Talk Data Exploration!
Let’s dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out.
Today we’re featuring a visualization that looks at what the hawks were doing when they were vocalizing.
Click…
May 27, 2021What was the weather like during data collection for Cornell Feeders Live?When we came together to figure out what to study with the Cornell FeederWatch cam, many people in the community were interested in the effects of weather. Several people shared their observations at their own bird feeders and their predictions…
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…
September 18, 2020What does the weather data look like?Weather is important to understand when studying birds because it can potentially affect how they behave. The Hawk Happenings community recognized this and specifically included weather in their research question, theorizing that Red-tailed Hawk behaviors at the nest might vary…
November 6, 2019What Can We Investigate With the Live Data Tagging Tool?We’re excited to introduce a new Live Data Tagging tool that we’ll use to collect data for a new Bird Cams Lab investigation on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. Never before have we been able to tag data right as…
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…
February 4, 2020Welcome to Panama Live Data CollectionJoin in the next phase of the first-ever Panama Fruit Feeder investigation: data collection.
The community has spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining and revising the questions, and then making decisions about data collection. With the…