Recent Updates

  • Clustered bar chart showing the percent chance two species, gray-cowled wood-rails and rufous motmot, have arriving at the feeder during half-hour time intervals throughout the day. The pattern appears bidmodal, with both species more likely to arrive in the morning and evening while less in the middle of the day.
    August 20, 2020Species differ in how they arrive at the feeder

    When the Panama Live community discussed what to investigate, we narrowed the questions down to (1) when do six focal species arrive at the feeder, (2) does this vary from day to day, and (3) does adding food affect when…

  • January 27, 2020Situations Over Time

    This 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…

  • June 19, 2018Seven Cam-Testable Questions You Identified in Sorting Activity

    Thanks to 62 participants who helped sort 12 questions from the Wonder Board, we have now identified 7 questions that most think can be identified using cam footage. For a summary of results, see the graph below.

    As you can see,…

  • Screenshot of the Panama Fruit Feeder with Thick-billed Euphonia and Clay-colored Thrush in view.
    August 10, 2020See Preliminary Findings From the Panama Live Investigation

    It’s finally time! Back in February, the Panama Live community came together and collected data to learn more about when certain bird species arrive at the feeder featured on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. A huge thank you again to…

  • 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…

  • A visual of the voting results with teach piece of information ranked from most to least interesting. The information at the top is highlighted in yellow and it progressively becomes more red as it is positioned more towards the bottom. In order from most to least interesting to participants: type of displacement, presence or type of food on the feeder, number of individuals of each species, size of each species in the displacement, where target of the displacement goes, weather, sex of dimorphic species, and color of each species in the displacement.
    January 13, 2021Results In Hand, Data Collection Right Around The Corner

    Two Collared Aracaris on the Panama Fruit Feeder after each displaced a Chestnut-headed Oropendola. Clip cut by Bird Cams Lab participant Rysx.

    After weeks of discussion on the Wonder Board and a live webinar with Dr. Eliot Miller and Bird Cams…

  • A screenshot of a Blue Jay and a Northern Cardinal on the Cornell FeederWatch cam.
    April 24, 2020Results are in for Battling Birds!

    We are excited to share that, thanks to a tremendous effort from the Bird Cams Lab community, the second round of Battling Birds is complete and the results are in! First, we want to thank everyone who participated in the…

  • June 14, 2021Register For Live Webinar About The Cornell Feeders

    Since we started the data exploration phase, more than 240 people have taken a look at the data collected in real time on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. We invite you to continue those conversations with us online, and then join…

  • Screenshot of the two of the Red-tailed hawks nestlings
    May 13, 2020Questions in Hand, We Look At What’s Next

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    After weeks of discussions, 340 people ranked 5 proposed questions that are possible to investigate on the Cornell Hawks cam, using four criteria: interesting, specific, measurable, and feasible. Thank you to everyone who voted!

    The two…

  • December 13, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation

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    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…

  • A cropped version of an infographic. There is a blue background with a crimson-backed tanager on a branch.
    November 23, 2020Panama Live: The Road We’ve Traveled

    We’ve put together an infographic to walk through each phase of the Panama Live investigation from start to finish.  If you’d like to dig deeper into any of the phases, learn more about what we found, or sign up for…

  • Individual pictures of the Clay-colored Thrush, Crimson-backed Tanager, Gray-cowled Wood-Rail, Gray Chachalaca, Rufous Motmot, Thick-billed Euphonia.
    November 17, 2020Panama Live: The Final Results Are In!

    For the first time ever, viewers from around the world collaborated with scientists to collect data in real time while watching the Panama Fruit Feeder cam in an investigation called Panama Live. From February 10 – 24, more than 60…