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…
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…
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…
January 15, 2020Panama Feeder Video Recap and New PollTake the poll In 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
November 23, 2020Panama Live: The Road We’ve TraveledLook 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…
December 13, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder InvestigationWe’ve closed the poll! See the results here. ———————————————— 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…
May 13, 2020Questions in Hand, We Look At What’s NextAfter 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 questions that rose to…
June 14, 2021Register For Live Webinar About The Cornell FeedersSince 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…