December 13, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation————————————————
We’d love your input! By watching the cam and recording data, participants in the Bird Cams Lab can help us discover new information about the birds at the fruit feeder. Which question should we investigate? Answer the questions below to…
December 20, 2019Panama Feeder Question DesignThe Bird Cams Lab community recently filled out a quick poll about which question they were most interested in investigating on the Panama Fruit Feeder Cam, and the results are in!
The question that rose to the top was:
When do different…
January 15, 2020Panama Feeder Video Recap and New PollIn the video above, we summarize the great discussions the community has had on the Question Design Board and introduce the next step: final refinement of our question for the investigation.
Now we’d love your help with designing the study. 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.
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January 22, 2020Changing VocalizationsLast week we found out that when nestling were vocalizing, they were also primarily being fed or the adult was brooding. This week, we’ll dig deeper into both nestling and adult vocalizations to see if and how they change over…
January 27, 2020Join Us For A Live Question & Answer Session about Hawk Talk VisualizationsThe Bird Cams Lab team invites the community to join us for a live discussion about the preliminary findings from the Hawk Talk project. We invite you to simply listen in, ask questions, or point out neat things you’ve noticed.
In…
January 27, 2020Situations Over TimeThis week’s featured visualization displays how frequently the two most common situations at the nest occur across time—adults brooding nestlings and adults feeding nestlings.
Click here to see the interactive version of this graph.
In the chart above, the orange bars represent…
January 28, 2020Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation Finalized After Final PollThe community has spoken! After the most recent poll for your input about designing the study, we now have final, revised research questions:
When do focal species arrive at the feeder, and how does this vary from day to day? Does…
- February 4, 2020Welcome to Panama Live Data Collection
Join 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…
February 5, 2020Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Hawk Talk Data VisualizationsRed-tailed Hawk cam viewers and Hawk Talk participants joined the Bird Cams Lab team on February 3rd to discuss the project’s preliminary findings.
Charles Eldermire, the Project Leader, kicked things off by welcoming everyone and orienting them to the Zoom tool…
February 13, 2020New Data Collection ResourcesSince we started collecting data, thousands of observations have been logged by viewers. That’s incredible! For those of you who haven’t had the chance to collect data yet, we’ve created a short 1-minute video to walk you through what data…
February 25, 2020Panama Live Data Collection Complete!We just finished the data collection phase for the Panama Live investigation! Thank you to the 60 people that watched the live cam and tagged their observations over the past two weeks. We logged over 11,000 observations from February 10…