Recent Updates

  • The three Red-tailed Hawk nestlings standing up in the nest and preening.
    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 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…

  • A screenshot of Big Red feeding the three hawk nestlings and an overlay of the staff videos from the webinar
    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…

  • 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…

  • 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

    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…

  • Big Red standing in the nest with nestlings that have lots of fluffy down feathers.
    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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    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…

  • A photo of Dr. Eliot Mille standing on a hillside among dry grass.
    December 3, 2020Welcome Dr. Miller!

    We’re about to launch Battling Birds: Panama Edition, our next investigation around the Panama Fruit Feeder cam with Dr. Eliot Miller. He is the Collections Development Manager for the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, and has previously researched the social lives…

  • A screenshot of the data collection screen for the Battling Birds data collection on Zooniverse.
    December 7, 2020The Data Tool: Zooniverse

    To figure out what’s going on between the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam, we will be using Zooniverse’s video tagging tool to collect data from recorded video footage. Zooniverse is a free, easy-to-use online…

  • An illustration of a Rufous Motmot battling a Chestnut-headed Oropendola.
    December 8, 2020Battling Birds: Panama Edition Launches

    Join the Bird Cams Lab community in the newest investigation, Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Just like the first Battling Birds investigation, we want to learn more about what birds are doing at a feeder. However, this time we’ll virtually be…

  • Gray-headed Chachalaca on the Panama Fruit Feder cam with text with information about the webinar
    December 11, 2020Tune Into A Live Conversation With Dr. Eliot Miller

    Tune in to learn more about the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam and Bird Cams Lab’s newest scientific investigation that is already underway! We’ll be talking with Dr. Eliot Miller, a researcher at the…

  • A screenshot of the Panama Fruit Feeder cam with a Rufous Motmot posed on it. In the top right corner is a screenshot of Dr. Eliot Miller from the webinar.
    December 16, 2020Live From Bird Cams Lab: Webinar Discussion With Dr. Eliot Miller

    Watch Cornell Lab researcher Dr. Eliot Miller talk about the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation with Bird Cams staff and the Bird Cams Lab community. On December 14, 126 people tuned in for a fun and interesting discussion with Cornell…