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After 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…
April 30, 2020Time to Vote! Which Question Would You Like to See Investigated?We’ve brainstormed, we’ve refined, and now it’s time to vote on the question that you’d like to see the community investigate. We’ve narrowed it down to five questions based on four criteria that we discussed on the Question Design Board:…
April 24, 2020Results are in for Battling Birds!We are excited to share that, thanks to a tremendous effort from the Bird Cams Lab community, the second round of Battling Birds is complete and the results are in! First, we want to thank everyone who participated in the…
April 20, 2020Hawk Happenings Question DesignSee the most recent project updates.
We’re almost ready to start a new investigation! In the recent Sorting Activity, more than 90 people looked at 12 questions from the Wonder Board and sorted them into those that could or couldn’t be…
April 14, 2020The Data ToolsWhen we watch the cams, we can come up with all kinds of questions once our curiosity is piqued. Taking note of interesting patterns is how scientific investigations start. Once we have questions in hand, the next step is to…
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…
March 19, 2020The Final Results Are In!Since May 2018, more than 1,400 members of the Hawk Talk project put on their citizen-science caps and joined other viewers and scientists on a mission to reveal new insights from the Red-tailed Hawk cam. The community watched the cam,…
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…
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…
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…
February 4, 2020Welcome to Panama Live Data CollectionJoin in the next phase of the first-ever Panama Fruit Feeder investigation: data collection.
The community has spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining and revising the questions, and then making decisions about data collection. With the…
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…