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  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A platform feeder is filled with seed and there are four hanging feeders and a snowman shaped feeder. There are multiple bird species on the feeders, including a white-breasted nuthatch and pine siskins on the platform feeder. A downy woodpecker can also be seed perched on a feeder.
    March 1, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Question Design

    This section is currently inactive. We’ve finished brainstorming. See the most recent project updates. Which Question to Investigate? The observations and the discussion on the Wonder Board generated a variety of questions, and we’ve summarized the questions with the most…

  • A red-bellied woodpecker perches on a suet feeder in the middle, which is surrounded by hanging feeder and is above a platform feeder filled with seed. The red-bellied woodpecker has a red head, black-and-white striped wings, and a white face and belly. The background is a snow-covered landscape and bare vegetation.
    March 11, 2021It’s Time To Vote!

    It’s time to choose what data we will collect for the Cornell Feeders Live investigation.  Over the past two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab community has worked together to share and discuss ideas on the Wonder Board and Question Design…

  • March 19, 2021Votes Are In and Data Collection Starts Soon

    749 people weighed in on what we should collect for the Cornell Feeders Live investigation The Results In the past month, Bird Cams Lab participants shared what they want to learn more about and discussed questions we could potentially investigate…

  • March 22, 2021Deciphering the Battling Birds: Panama Data

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam gives us a window into the tropical forests of Panama and the birds that reside there. While many of the species seen on the cam are well known (and colorful), there…

  • March 23, 2021Dig Into The Data From Battling Birds: Panama

    Explore the data collected by over 1,000 volunteers. Thanks again to everyone who collected data for Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Since the end of data collection in February, we’ve been working with volunteer programmer Peter Mason to extract the data…

  • 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 Cornell FeederWatch cam page with the live stream view, buttons with birds to the right of it, names of the birds and the time they visited in the
    March 23, 2021Welcome to Data Collection for Cornell Feeders Live!

    Great work! Data collection is complete.  See the most recent project updates. Join in the next phase of the Cornell Feeders Live investigation. Cornell Feeders Live is a investigation co-created by scientists and Cornell FeederWatch cam viewers. The community spent…

  • A gray-headed chachalaca (gray-brown medium-sized bird) is standing on a feeding table that has a couple green and yellow oranges. The backdrop is lots of green vegetation, as in big tropical leaves. In the top right corner is a nectar feeder (red with yellow flowers). There is a yellow crown overlayed on the bird's head.
    April 7, 2021Tag Data And Register For Upcoming Webinar

    As of yesterday, the Bird Cams Lab community has grown to over 7,900 people. Welcome newcomers! We are thrilled to have you join our community of co-creators. Right now there are two investigations underway with two different cams, (1) Battling…

  • A scatter plot of points in which each color refers to a species in a dominance hierarchy. This is only a close up of the graph to represent the blog post in which the graph is included.
    April 12, 2021Bigger The Bird, Bigger The Punch

    On the Cornell Lab’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam, there are dozens of charismatic bird species who visit a feeding table filled with fruit and rice. Staff at the Canopy Lodge, where the feeding table is located, have to restock it…

  • This is a screenshot of an interactive visualization. There are photographs of birds connected by gray arrows with a box to the right instructing user to hover over and interact with the photos. There are 13 photos.
    April 15, 2021The Interactions Behind The Rankings

    This past winter, a community of more than 1,000 people watched and recorded data in video clips taken from the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. They recorded two key pieces of information: (1) whenever one bird attempted to take the perch…

  • A screenshot taken from the Panama Fruit Feeder of a Gray-cowled Wood-Rail perched on the left side of the feeding table. There are bananas and other pieces of fruit on the feeder. Backdrop is lush green leaves and vines. There are four screenshots of the four speakers in the top right corner.
    April 16, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: Understanding Food Fights

    Check out Bird Cams staff and Cornell Lab researcher Dr. Eliot Miller talk about the birds at the Panama Fruit Feeder and what we found out about them in the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. On April 14, 106 people…

  • A horizontal bar chart with species along the vertical axis and the number of observations recorded for each species rom 0 to 50,000 on the horizontal axis. There is a picture of each species next to its name and each bar is a color that the species has (ex: American Goldfinch bar is yellow). There were 1484 observations for American Goldfinch, 37,905 for Black-capped Chickadee, 15042 for Blue Jay, 9538 for Northern Cardinal, 2502 for Red-bellied Woodpecker, 43063 for Red-winged Blackbird, 10034 for Tufted Titmouse, and 2203 for White-breasted nuthatch.
    April 21, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: Data Exploration Is Around The Corner

    Thank you to the 495 people who participated in the data collection phase, from tagging data to sharing your thoughts and questions on the Discussion Board. We’re excited to start digging into the incredible amount of data you collected: more…