June 30, 2020Panama Live: From Observations to VisualizationsPanama is home to hundreds of tropical bird species, many of which we know very little about. The 24/7 Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder Cam, located at the Canopy Lodge in the Anton Valley, gives us a window…
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…
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…
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…
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…
May 27, 2021Our STEM for All Video Won The Public Choice Award!Thank you to everyone who voted for the video we submitted to the 2021 STEM For All Video Showcase, an annual showcase of projects aiming to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) learning and teaching. In total, more than 2,700…
April 7, 2020New Hawk Investigation LaunchesBig Red and Arthur are incubating three eggs on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Red-tailed Hawk cam and it’s the perfect time to start a new investigation! As the hawks start their breeding season, join the Bird Cams Lab community…
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…
October 13, 2020Nestlings snack all day on the prey delivered in the morning or afternoonLast 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…
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…
September 19, 2019Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Battling Birds Data VisualizationsOn September 17, participants in Battling Birds joined our Bird Cams staff in a discussion about the different data visualizations created from the first round of data collection. The one-hour live Q&A was fueled by participants’ ideas and questions from…
June 19, 2018Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Our First Q&A SessionOn June 15, 17 participants joined our Bird Cams staff for our very first live Q&A session online. We connected through a link to a Zoom webinar, and because it was our first time using this tool, our team was…