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…

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    March 23, 2021It’s Time To Explore!

    We’ve completed the first three phases (observe, question, collect data), and now it’s time to look at data visualizations. Regardless of your involvement with Battling Birds so far, we invite you to explore the data, ask questions, and be a…

  • 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….

  • 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 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,…

  • A red-bellied woodpecker perches on a suet feeder in the middle, which is surrounded by hanging feeder and is above a platform feeder filled with seed. The red-bellied woodpecker has a red head, black-and-white striped wings, and a white face and belly. The background is a snow-covered landscape and bare vegetation.
    March 11, 2021It’s Time To Vote!

    Over the past two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab community has worked together to share and discuss ideas on the Wonder Board and Question Design Board. The community is full of curiosity and has proposed many interesting questions. Given that…

  • 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…

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    February 25, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: Birds, Feeders, And Science

    On February 23, 244 people tuned in to learn more about the newest Bird Cams Lab investigation, Cornell Feeders Live, and the cam it’s based on, the Cornell FeederWatch cam. Bird Cams staff highlighted discussions on the Wonder Board and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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?…

  • A screenshot of the data collection tool used, showing the cam and the buttons
    February 12, 2021The Data Tool: Live Tagging

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we’ll be using a recently developed live data tagging tool. We first used this tool for Panama Live. In that investigation we documented the arrival patterns of six species on the Panama Fruit Feeder…