Recent Updates

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam page with the live stream view, buttons with birds to the right of it, names of the birds and the time they visited in the
    March 23, 2021Welcome to Data Collection for Cornell Feeders Live!

    See the most recent project updates.

    Cornell Feeders Live is a investigation co-created by scientists and Cornell FeederWatch cam viewers. The community spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining and revising those questions, and then deciding what…

  • A photo of Dr. Eliot Mille standing on a hillside among dry grass.
    December 3, 2020Welcome Dr. Miller!

    We’re about to launch Battling Birds: Panama Edition, our next investigation around the Panama Fruit Feeder cam with Dr. Eliot Miller. He is the Collections Development Manager for the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, and has previously researched the social lives…

  • An illustration of the phases of a scientific investigation with words and icons to illustrate them. The phases are Observe, Question, Collect, Analyze, Share. Share is highlighted in yellow to represent that this is the phase the investigation is currently in.
    April 29, 2021Weigh In On the Final Report For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    It’s hard to believe, but we are in the last phase of the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation: sharing findings! We’ve worked together to observe the Panama Fruit Feeder cam, come up with a research question, collect data, explore and…

  • This is a screenshot of an interactive visualization. There are photographs of birds connected by gray arrows with a box to the right instructing user to hover over and interact with the photos. There are 13 photos.
    April 21, 2021We’re Wrapping Up Data Exploration For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    Last week more than 100 people joined us for a live virtual event to talk about our favorite birds on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam and the new insights we had into how different species interact with each other. If…

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    June 1, 2021We were almost always watching!

    For two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab and Bird Cams community came together to tag data in real time from the Cornell FeederWatch cam. At the end of data collection, the community amassed over 120,000 observations of the eight study…

  • A screenshot of one of the nestlings at the nest looking to the right away from the nest.
    June 4, 2020We Have Less Than Two Weeks Left!

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    Things are happening at Hawk Happenings. The first nestling may leave the nest as early as next week! That means we don’t have much longer to collect data.

    As of yesterday, over 100 people have made…

  • Screenshot of the third hawk nestling leaving the nest while the other two are at the nest.
    June 16, 2020We Did It!

    It’s finally happened! All three nestlings tested their wings for the first time over the past few days. The first nestling left on Friday, June 12th, followed by the other two over the weekend.

    If you missed it, be sure to…

  • Several species, including woodpeckers and sparrows on the Cornell FeederWAtch cam. There is snow on the feeders and in the background. Also a red-breasted nuthatch on the far right feeder.
    February 15, 2021Watch and Wonder On the Cornell Feeders Live Wonder Board

    Whether you are a long-time viewer or have never watched the cam, we invite you to be a part of the discussion. As you watch birds fly in and out of view on the cam, does anything pique your interest?…

  • March 19, 2021Votes Are In and Data Collection Starts Soon

    In the past month, Bird Cams Lab participants shared what they want to learn more about and discussed questions we could potentially investigate with the Cornell FeederWatch cam. In the most recent set of discussions on the Question Design Board,…

  • May 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab
  • Gray-headed Chachalaca on the Panama Fruit Feder cam with text with information about the webinar
    December 11, 2020Tune Into A Live Conversation With Dr. Eliot Miller

    Tune in to learn more about the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam and Bird Cams Lab’s newest scientific investigation that is already underway!

    We’ll be talking with Dr. Eliot Miller, a researcher at the Cornell…

  • April 30, 2020Time to Vote! Which Question Would You Like to See Investigated?

    We’ve brainstormed, we’ve refined, and now it’s time to vote on the question that you’d like to see the community investigate. We’ve narrowed it down to five questions based on four criteria that we discussed on the Question Design Board:…