Recent Updates

  • A person sits on a stool at a desk and is typing on a keyboard and facing a monitor. To the right of the person is a bar chart with an arrow points up as it increases. There are two images of birds: male and female Red-winged Blackbird.
    October 21, 2021The Bird Cams Lab Experience: What We Learned From External Evaluation

    During 2018–21, people from around the world teamed up with one another and scientists to learn more about birds on the Cornell Lab’s Bird Cams.

    Figure 1. The locations of Bird Cams Lab participants for the last four investigations: Cornell Feeders…

  • A screenshot of the data collection tool used, showing the cam and the buttons
    February 12, 2021The Data Tool: Live Tagging

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we’ll be using a recently developed live data tagging tool. We first used this tool for Panama Live. In that investigation we documented the arrival patterns of six species on the Panama Fruit Feeder…

  • A screenshot of the data collection screen for the Battling Birds data collection on Zooniverse.
    December 7, 2020The Data Tool: Zooniverse

    To figure out what’s going on between the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam, we will be using Zooniverse’s video tagging tool to collect data from recorded video footage. Zooniverse is a free, easy-to-use online…

  • April 14, 2020The Data Tools

    When 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • October 11, 2019The Journey Has Just Begun

    In 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…

  • 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:…

  • Gray-headed Chachalaca on the Panama Fruit Feder cam with text with information about the webinar
    December 11, 2020Tune Into A Live Conversation With Dr. Eliot Miller

    Tune in to learn more about the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam and Bird Cams Lab’s newest scientific investigation that is already underway!

    We’ll be talking with Dr. Eliot Miller, a researcher at the Cornell…

  • May 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab
  • March 19, 2021Votes Are In and Data Collection Starts Soon

    In the past month, Bird Cams Lab participants shared what they want to learn more about and discussed questions we could potentially investigate with the Cornell FeederWatch cam. In the most recent set of discussions on the Question Design Board,…

  • Several species, including woodpeckers and sparrows on the Cornell FeederWAtch cam. There is snow on the feeders and in the background. Also a red-breasted nuthatch on the far right feeder.
    February 15, 2021Watch and Wonder On the Cornell Feeders Live Wonder Board

    Whether you are a long-time viewer or have never watched the cam, we invite you to be a part of the discussion. As you watch birds fly in and out of view on the cam, does anything pique your interest?…