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  • A bar graph with blue and orange bars. The number of observations is on the vertical axis from 0 to 30. The time is on the horizontal axis from 8:00 to 16:00.
    May 26, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: From Observations to Visualizations

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch cam gives us a window into the lives of birds seen at backyard feeders in the Northeast United States. While many of the species are considered common and well-researched, we can still make discoveries…

  • 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…

  • Four birds visit the feeding station seen on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. There is a feeding tray filled with seeds. There is a suet feeder in the middle above the tray, and on the left and right are two hanging feeders (four total). The backdrop is leafy green vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Report Wraps Up Bird Cams Lab

    Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of 15 reviewers, we are now in the last phase of the Cornell Feeders Live investigation: sharing findings. We invite you to read the report and share it with your family and friends. In the…

  • 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

    See the most recent project updates.

    The observations and the discussion on the Wonder Board generated a variety of questions, and we’ve summarized the questions with the most upvotes into five groups to focus the conversation on honing the most interesting…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A blue Jay (blue-white bird) is perched on the edge of the feeding table on the left looking right at a morning dove (brown-gray bird). There are four hanging feeders around them and a suet feeder in the middle. The feeding station is against a backdrop of green leafy vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Final Report

    Hundreds of people came together to work with researchers to design an investigation that looked at the birds visiting the Cornell FeederWatch cam.
    After weeks of sharing observations, discussing, and taking a vote, the community decided to investigate visitation…

  • October 3, 2019Community Inspires More Visualizations

    Thank 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,…

  • A bar chart with blue bars.
    September 22, 2020Community inspires deeper dive into the data

    The Panama Live community inspired us to dig deeper into the data and create a new set of visualizations! During last week’s live webinar, Panama Live: Uncovering The Lives Of Six Tropical Feeder Birds (watch it here if you missed…

  • May 27, 2020Collect New Data On Nestlings

    Have you watched the Cornell Hawks cam recently? The nestlings are growing up so fast! Last week we launched data collection for the newly named Hawk Happenings investigation.

    52 people have collected 305 observations!

    Today, we’ve switch the data collection buttons about…

  • January 22, 2020Changing Vocalizations

    Last 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…

  • Snowy hanging feeder and platform feeder with a frozen pond in the background. An American Goldfinch and a Red-bellied Woodpecker are in view.
    February 22, 2021Birds, Feeders, and Science Oh My! What Can We Discover Together?

    Tune in to learn more about the birds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch cam and Cornell Feeders Live, Bird Cams Lab’s newest scientific investigation that is already underway! Right now, the Bird Cams Lab community is in the…

  • A line graph with three different colored lines each referring to a study species. Hour is on the horizontal axis from 5 to 19 and percentage chance species is present is on the vertical axis from 0 to 100. For all species except Northern Cardinal, the percentage chance increases as the morning advances and then decreases in the afternoon. The exact shape of this curved shape varies by species, but is the general pattern. The other species are grayed out and only the American Goldfinch, Black-capped chickadee, and Blue Jay are shown.
    June 22, 2021Birds Don’t Check The Temperature Before Visiting The Feeder

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we have shared visualizations that highlight (1) the sampling effort (i.e., amount of time watched) and (2) when the study species visited the feeding station. This second set of visualizations helped us start to…

  • 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…