Recent Updates

  • A bar chart with blue bars.
    September 22, 2020Community inspires deeper dive into the data

    The Panama Live community inspired us to dig deeper into the data and create a new set of visualizations! During last week’s live webinar, Panama Live: Uncovering The Lives Of Six Tropical Feeder Birds (watch it here if you missed…

  • October 3, 2019Community Inspires More Visualizations

    Thank 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,…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A blue Jay (blue-white bird) is perched on the edge of the feeding table on the left looking right at a morning dove (brown-gray bird). There are four hanging feeders around them and a suet feeder in the middle. The feeding station is against a backdrop of green leafy vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Final Report

    Hundreds of people came together to work with researchers to design an investigation that looked at the birds visiting the Cornell FeederWatch cam.
    After weeks of sharing observations, discussing, and taking a vote, the community decided to investigate visitation…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A platform feeder is filled with seed and there are four hanging feeders and a snowman shaped feeder. There are multiple bird species on the feeders, including a white-breasted nuthatch and pine siskins on the platform feeder. A downy woodpecker can also be seed perched on a feeder.
    March 1, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Question Design

    See the most recent project updates.

    The observations and the discussion on the Wonder Board generated a variety of questions, and we’ve summarized the questions with the most upvotes into five groups to focus the conversation on honing the most interesting…

  • Four birds visit the feeding station seen on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. There is a feeding tray filled with seeds. There is a suet feeder in the middle above the tray, and on the left and right are two hanging feeders (four total). The backdrop is leafy green vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Report Wraps Up Bird Cams Lab

    Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of 15 reviewers, we are now in the last phase of the Cornell Feeders Live investigation: sharing findings. We invite you to read the report and share it with your family and friends. In the…

  • A horizontal bar chart with species along the vertical axis and the number of observations recorded for each species rom 0 to 50,000 on the horizontal axis. There is a picture of each species next to its name and each bar is a color that the species has (ex: American Goldfinch bar is yellow). There were 1484 observations for American Goldfinch, 37,905 for Black-capped Chickadee, 15042 for Blue Jay, 9538 for Northern Cardinal, 2502 for Red-bellied Woodpecker, 43063 for Red-winged Blackbird, 10034 for Tufted Titmouse, and 2203 for White-breasted nuthatch.
    April 21, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: Data Exploration Is Around The Corner

    Thank you to the 495 people who participated in the data collection phase, from tagging data to sharing your thoughts and questions on the Discussion Board. We’re excited to start digging into the incredible amount of data you collected: more…

  • A bar graph with blue and orange bars. The number of observations is on the vertical axis from 0 to 30. The time is on the horizontal axis from 8:00 to 16:00.
    May 26, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: From Observations to Visualizations

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch cam gives us a window into the lives of birds seen at backyard feeders in the Northeast United States. While many of the species are considered common and well-researched, we can still make discoveries…

  • Size Collared Aracaris eating rice and fruit on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam.
    February 22, 2021Data Collection Is A Wrap For Battling Birds: Panama Edition!

    We’re super excited to announce that Battling Birds: Panama Edition finished collecting data last week. We were completely taken by surprise because we had estimated that data collection would finish this week.

    The early completion of data collection was made possible…

  • Pictures of the video clips in the top of the screenshot and then a bar with red-orange coloring showing we are 31% done. The number of volunteers and the number of classifications is also shown.
    February 5, 2021Data Collection Takes Off!

    Last week marked the beginning data collection for Battling Birds: Panama Edition on Zooniverse, and we’re thrilled by the turnout so far. On Thursday, 446 people tuned in for a live conversation about the project with Bird Cams Lab staff…

  • March 22, 2021Deciphering the Battling Birds: Panama Data

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam gives us a window into the tropical forests of Panama and the birds that reside there. While many of the species seen on the cam are well known (and colorful), there…

  • March 23, 2021Dig Into The Data From Battling Birds: Panama

    Thanks again to everyone who collected data for Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Since the end of data collection in February, we’ve been working with volunteer programmer Peter Mason to extract the data from Zooniverse and analyze what your observations mean….

  • The three Red-tailed Hawk nestlings standing up in the nest and preening.
    October 16, 2020Discuss New Findings At Live Webinar

    We had over 140 people weigh in to let us know when the best date and time would be to meet for our upcoming live event: Hawk Happenings: A Look Into The Cornell Hawks’ Nest. Based on the responses, we’ll…