Recent Updates

  • A photo of Great-Horned Owl nestlings is top left, photo of an osprey is bottom left, and on the right is information about the STEM For All Video Showcase. The text reads Save the Dates! May 11-18, 2021. STEM for All Video Showcase. There is a link: http://stemforall2021.videohall.com. There is also a logo for TERC and NSF and icon and accompanying text to illustrate that people are invited to view, discuss, and vote for the videos.
    May 13, 2021Help Our Video Win The Public’s Choice Award

    First, a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed the draft of the report for the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. We’ve just started to look at your feedback and already see that the report will be improved thanks…

  • Bar chart showing the mean number of species arriving at the feeder for half-hour time intervals throughout the day. Shows the mean with
    August 10, 2020How many focal species are arriving throughout the day?

    Welcome to the first week of Panama Live Data Exploration!

    Join us to dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out. Today, we’re featuring a visualization that looks at the average number of species arriving at…

  • May 18, 2018How to Choose or Refine a Good Cam-Testable Question

    So you’ve identified some questions that you think could be answered with cam footage. How do you decide which ones make the best questions for an investigation?

    Would investigating the question yield new insights about birds? How excited are you…

  • A Photography of a humming bird flying in the bottom right. The photo credits are in small white text at the bottom right as well and read,
    July 8, 2021How to Stay in Touch and Keep Contributing

    Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Bird Cams Lab! Whether you just joined this past year, or have been with us since the beginning, we sincerely thank you for being a part of our community.

    Bird Cams…

  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    Disqus is an easy-to-use discussion tool that you’ll use to comment or upvote other comments in any Bird Cams Lab forum. On the forums, you’ll be able to post questions, share your thoughts, and provide links to helpful information. In…

  • A screenshot of the first question in the data collection tool on Zooniverse. A video player is on the left and the task is on the right. The first question is
    January 27, 2021It’s Time To Collect Data!

    The day has come that many of you have long been anticipating: it’s time to collect data! The research team has cut clips from archived Panama Fruit Feeder cam footage and many of you have helped us test run the…

  • Stacked bar chart with orange and blue bars. Blue bars take up the majority of the space. The horizontal scale is from 6 to 18 and the vertical scale is from 0 to 100.
    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…

  • A gif of a Flame-rumped tanager displacing a Crimson-backed tanager on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam.
    December 22, 2020It’s Time To Take A Vote

    It’s time to choose what data we will focus on and collect for the Battling Birds: Panama Edition. In the past couple weeks, cam viewers have teamed up with Dr. Eliot Miller to determine how to understand how birds battle…

  • 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 crested oropendola looks down on a rufous motmot on the panama fruit feeder cam. the feeding table is filled with bananas and oranges.
    January 28, 2021Join Us For A Live Conversation About Battling Birds: Panama Edition

     

    Join the Bird Cams Lab staff TODAY at 12:00 PM ET in a live Q&A discussion. We’ll highlight the most recent investigation with the Panama Fruit Feeder cam, Battling Birds: Panama Edition, and how you can get involved by collecting…

  • January 27, 2020Join Us For A Live Question & Answer Session about Hawk Talk Visualizations

     

    The 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…

  • A screen shot of a gray-cowled wood-rail on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam.
    September 3, 2020Learn About Tropical Birds At Live Webinar

    We had over 100 people weigh in to let us know when the best date and time would be to meet for our upcoming live event: Panama Live: Uncovering the lives of tropical feeder birds. Based on the responses, we’ll…