August 24, 2019Battling Birds: From Zooniverse to HereWhat 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…
August 26, 2019See and Explore the Data!The first phase of data collection for Battling Birds is complete thanks to the amazing effort of more than 2,000 contributors who classified over 10,000 clips on Zooniverse! Our web developers have been busy translating your data into interactive charts…
August 26, 2019Does Conflict Increase With More Species on the Feeder?Let’s dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out!
Today we’re featuring a visualization that looks at the relationship between conflict and the number of species present at the feeders. We are measuring conflict by looking…
August 29, 2019Hawk Talk Data Collection is Complete!We finished collecting the the data set for Hawk Talk on August 23rd. Thank you to everyone that helped us cross the finish line. Over 1,400 contributors classified over 47,000 classifications on over 8,000 subjects. That’s incredible!
Now we’ll take the…
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…
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.
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September 19, 2019Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Battling Birds Data VisualizationsOn September 17, participants in Battling Birds joined our Bird Cams staff in a discussion about the different data visualizations created from the first round of data collection. The one-hour live Q&A was fueled by participants’ ideas and questions from…
September 23, 2019Does Bad Weather Increase Conflict?If you helped us collected data on Zooniverse, you may have wondered, “Why are we answering a question about weather?” That’s a great question and this week we’ll explore some of the data that will help explain why we did…
October 3, 2019Community Inspires More VisualizationsThank you to everyone who has joined us in this phase of data exploration! Your ideas and questions have inspired us to dig deeper into the data by creating a new set of visuals.
Before we dive into the interactive visuals,…
October 11, 2019The Journey Has Just BegunIn Fall 2018, the Batting Birds community sprinted through the first round of data collection. The researchers then set to work on turning the data into visualizations for us to explore. We worked with programmers and tested several versions of…
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…
November 21, 2019Hawk Talk: From Zooniverse to HereRed-tailed Hawks are found across North America, and their calls are so iconic that moviegoers around the globe have heard hawk calls used by producers to depict Bald Eagles in films. Even though the raspy call of the Red-tailed Hawk…