January 27, 2020Situations Over TimeThis week’s featured visualization displays how frequently the two most common situations at the nest occur across time—adults brooding nestlings and adults feeding nestlings.
Click here to see the interactive version of this graph.
In the chart above, the orange bars represent…
January 27, 2020Join Us For A Live Question & Answer Session about Hawk Talk VisualizationsThe Bird Cams Lab team invites the community to join us for a live discussion about the preliminary findings from the Hawk Talk project. We invite you to simply listen in, ask questions, or point out neat things you’ve noticed.
In…
January 22, 2020Changing VocalizationsLast week we found out that when nestling were vocalizing, they were also primarily being fed or the adult was brooding. This week, we’ll dig deeper into both nestling and adult vocalizations to see if and how they change over…
January 16, 2020What’s Happening When Hawks Vocalize?Welcome to the first week of Hawk Talk Data Exploration!
Let’s dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out.
Today we’re featuring a visualization that looks at what the hawks were doing when they were vocalizing.
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January 15, 2020Panama Feeder Video Recap and New PollIn 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 with designing the study. The…
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 do different…
December 13, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation————————————————
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 question should we investigate? Answer the questions below to…
November 21, 2019Hawk Talk: From Zooniverse to HereRed-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…
November 6, 2019What Can We Investigate With the Live Data Tagging Tool?We’re excited to introduce a new Live Data Tagging tool that we’ll use to collect data for a new Bird Cams Lab investigation on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. Never before have we been able to tag data right as…
October 11, 2019The Journey Has Just BegunIn Fall 2018, the Batting Birds community sprinted through the first round of data collection. The researchers then set to work on turning the data into visualizations for us to explore. We worked with programmers and tested several versions of…
October 3, 2019Community Inspires More VisualizationsThank you to everyone who has joined us in this phase of data exploration! Your ideas and questions have inspired us to dig deeper into the data by creating a new set of visuals.
Before we dive into the interactive visuals,…
September 23, 2019Does Bad Weather Increase Conflict?If you helped us collected data on Zooniverse, you may have wondered, “Why are we answering a question about weather?” That’s a great question and this week we’ll explore some of the data that will help explain why we did…