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  • Stacked bar chart with orange and blue bars. Blue bars take up the majority of the space. The horizontal scale is from 6 to 18 and the vertical scale is from 0 to 100.
    March 23, 2021It’s Time To Explore!

    We’re ready! Join us in the next phase of the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation–data exploration. We’ve completed the first three phases (observe, question, collect data), and now it’s time to look at data visualizations. Regardless of your involvement with…

  • A screenshot of the first question in the data collection tool on Zooniverse. A video player is on the left and the task is on the right. The first question is
    January 27, 2021It’s Time To Collect Data!

    Join in the fun and start collecting data to better understand what’s going on between the battling birds on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. The day has come that many of you have long been anticipating: it’s time to collect…

  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    What is Disqus? Disqus is an easy-to-use discussion tool that you’ll use to comment or upvote other comments in any Bird Cams Lab forum. On the forums, you’ll be able to post questions, share your thoughts, and provide links to…

  • A Photography of a humming bird flying in the bottom right. The photo credits are in small white text at the bottom right as well and read,
    July 8, 2021How to Stay in Touch and Keep Contributing

    Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Bird Cams Lab! Whether you just joined this past year, or have been with us since the beginning, we sincerely thank you for being a part of our community. Bird…

  • May 18, 2018How to Choose or Refine a Good Cam-Testable Question

    So you’ve identified some questions that you think could be answered with cam footage. How do you decide which ones make the best questions for an investigation? Will the answer provide interesting or valuable insights? Would investigating the question yield…

  • Bar chart showing the mean number of species arriving at the feeder for half-hour time intervals throughout the day. Shows the mean with
    August 10, 2020How many focal species are arriving throughout the day?

    Welcome to the first week of Panama Live Data Exploration! Join us to dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out. Today, we’re featuring a visualization that looks at the average number of species arriving…

  • A photo of Great-Horned Owl nestlings is top left, photo of an osprey is bottom left, and on the right is information about the STEM For All Video Showcase. The text reads Save the Dates! May 11-18, 2021. STEM for All Video Showcase. There is a link: http://stemforall2021.videohall.com. There is also a logo for TERC and NSF and icon and accompanying text to illustrate that people are invited to view, discuss, and vote for the videos.
    May 13, 2021Help Our Video Win The Public’s Choice Award

    First, a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed the draft of the report for the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. We’ve just started to look at your feedback and already see that the report will be improved thanks…

  • Big Red feeds a small morsel to the hawk nestlings.
    November 21, 2019Hawk Talk: From Zooniverse to Here 

    Red-tailed Hawks are found across North America, and their calls are so iconic that moviegoers around the globe have heard hawk calls used by producers to depict Bald Eagles in films. Even though the raspy call of the Red-tailed Hawk…

  • August 29, 2019Hawk Talk Data Collection is Complete!

    We finished collecting the the data set for Hawk Talk on August 23rd. Thank you to everyone that helped us cross the finish line. Over 1,400 contributors classified over 47,000 classifications on over 8,000 subjects. That’s incredible! Now we’ll take…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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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…