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    December 1, 2020Hawk Happenings: A Visual Summary And A Look Ahead

    Check out highlights from each phase of the Hawk Happenings investigation. We’ve put together a visual summary of the Hawk Happenings investigation, highlighting each phase and the hard work done by the community. Below the infographic, we invite you to…

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    November 24, 2020Hawk Happenings: The Final Results Are In!

    Red-tailed Hawks Change Their Behavior With Temperature, Time of Day, And Age of Nestlings The Bird Cams Lab community, now 4,393 people strong, came together with scientists this past spring to learn more about the Red-tailed Hawk family seen on…

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    November 23, 2020Panama Live: The Road We’ve Traveled

    Look back at the work done by the Bird Cams Lab community for the Panama Live investigation. 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…

  • 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!

    Cam Viewers Collected Data In Real Time And Made Discoveries About The Foraging Patterns of Tropical Feeder Birds For the first time ever, viewers from around the world collaborated with scientists to collect data in real time while watching the…

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    October 27, 2020Live From Bird Cams Lab: A Fun and Lively Discussion

    On October 21 more than 100 people tuned in for an engaging discussion about the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Red-tailed Hawk cam and Hawk Happenings, a Bird Cams Lab investigation. As one of the hosts, I was thrilled that so…

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    October 22, 2020Get To Know Your Bird Cams Lab Mates

    Since we started Bird Cams Lab back in 2018, we’ve grown to over 4,000 members! We’re thrilled the community has blossomed and that there are so many people passionate not only about the Bird Cams but about learning more about…

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    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…

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    October 13, 2020Nestlings snack all day on the prey delivered in the morning or afternoon

    Last week we released the first set of visualizations that looked at participants’ sampling effort and the first behavior we studied: vocalizations. This week we dive into the other intriguing and fun-to-watch behaviors: feedings, prey deliveries, and three nestling-specific ones…

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    October 2, 2020Explore the Hawk Happenings Data

    The time has come! Join us in the next phase of Hawk Happenings: data exploration. We’ve completed the first three phases (observe, question, and collect data), and it’s now time to look at data visualizations. Regardless of your involvement with…

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    October 2, 2020When were (or weren’t) we watching?

    In the midst of the pandemic this past summer, the community came together and connected with nature by collecting data on the Cornell Lab’s Red-tailed Hawk cam. From May to June, over 320 people collected data to better understand the…

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    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…

  • A screenshot from the Cornell Lab's Red-tailed Hawk cam of Big Red, the female, incubating eggs while it snows.
    September 20, 2020Hawk Happenings: From Observations to Visualizations

      Although the Red-tailed Hawks are one of the most common hawks and are found across North America, researchers have only been able to study their behaviors at the nest from afar or infrequently via quick nest checks. The Cornell…