Recent Updates

  • Screenshot of the third hawk nestling leaving the nest while the other two are at the nest.
    June 16, 2020We Did It!

    It’s finally happened! All three nestlings tested their wings for the first time over the past few days. The first nestling left on Friday, June 12th, followed by the other two over the weekend.

    If you missed it, be sure to…

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    June 4, 2020We Have Less Than Two Weeks Left!

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    Things are happening at Hawk Happenings. The first nestling may leave the nest as early as next week! That means we don’t have much longer to collect data.

    As of yesterday, over 100 people have made…

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    June 1, 2021We were almost always watching!

    For two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab and Bird Cams community came together to tag data in real time from the Cornell FeederWatch cam. At the end of data collection, the community amassed over 120,000 observations of the eight study…

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    April 21, 2021We’re Wrapping Up Data Exploration For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    Last week more than 100 people joined us for a live virtual event to talk about our favorite birds on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam and the new insights we had into how different species interact with each other. If…

  • An illustration of the phases of a scientific investigation with words and icons to illustrate them. The phases are Observe, Question, Collect, Analyze, Share. Share is highlighted in yellow to represent that this is the phase the investigation is currently in.
    April 29, 2021Weigh In On the Final Report For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    It’s hard to believe, but we are in the last phase of the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation: sharing findings! We’ve worked together to observe the Panama Fruit Feeder cam, come up with a research question, collect data, explore and…

  • A photo of Dr. Eliot Mille standing on a hillside among dry grass.
    December 3, 2020Welcome Dr. Miller!

    We’re about to launch Battling Birds: Panama Edition, our next investigation around the Panama Fruit Feeder cam with Dr. Eliot Miller. He is the Collections Development Manager for the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, and has previously researched the social lives…

  • 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!

    See the most recent project updates.

    Cornell Feeders Live is a investigation co-created by scientists and Cornell FeederWatch cam viewers. The community spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining and revising those questions, and then deciding what…

  • February 4, 2020Welcome to Panama Live Data Collection

    Join in the next phase of the first-ever Panama Fruit Feeder investigation: data collection. 

    The community has spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining and revising the questions, and then making decisions about data collection. With the…

  • In 2014, viewers tallied 69 chipmunks brought to the nest, along with a diversity of other prey items.
    May 7, 2018Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab!

    Do you love watching the Bird Cams? We invite you to help us create a new project called Bird Cams Lab, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around the world…

  • 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…

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    September 18, 2020What does the weather data look like?

    Weather is important to understand when studying birds because it can potentially affect how they behave. The Hawk Happenings community recognized this and specifically included weather in their research question, theorizing that Red-tailed Hawk behaviors at the nest might vary…

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    May 18, 2018What Kinds of Questions Can We Investigate?

    Watching the Bird Cams can generate all kinds of questions. Some questions may have answers already based on past research. Other questions may not have answers yet—but could be answered by collecting and analyzing data from the cams. It’s those…